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He's colder than Darth Vader, more ruthless than the Joker, smarter than James Bond nemesis Ernst Blofeld and capable of out-eviling Lord Voldemort. And, man, can Professor James Moriarty — archenemy of ace detective Sherlock Holmes and one of fiction's first supervillains — play a mean game of chess. The notorious yet mysterious baddie gets his highest-profile treatment yet in director Guy Ritchie's sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which opens Friday. Pitted against Robert Downey Jr.'s manic man of action, Sherlock, Jared Harris stars as Moriarty, mulberry bagsthe genius math professor and global criminal mastermind who plans to start a world war. Although he played an active role in only two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock stories in the late 19th century, Moriarty has seen his legend grow over the years with people's interest in the ultimate antagonist, achieving an impressive level of pop-culture notoriety. "You have to see Moriarty as the dark side of Holmes. This is what Holmes could have been if he had become a criminal," says Leslie Klinger, a Sherlock expert and editor of TheNew Annotated Sherlock Holmes."I don't think there's any other arch-villain who ever rose to the level where you just had to admire him." Moriarty doesn't just haunt the multiplex, however. In the world of comic books, writer Daniel Corey presents the bad guy as the hero of Image Comics' Moriarty title. Want the most modern Moriarty? mulberry saleThe British series Sherlock returns as part of PBS' Masterpiece series with new episodes in May. They'll feature a truly disturbing incarnation of Sherlock's opposite number in actor Andrew Scott's Jim Moriarty. That departure from the source material works, says Klinger, a technical adviser on both of Ritchie's films. "Otherwise, it was always this really unfair matchup of semi-young, vigorous Holmes, with his expertise in 'baritsu,' taking on this old man."Moriarty's pugilistic skills aside, Ritchie feels he's at the top of the supervillain heap — "I can't think of one" better, he says. Klinger agrees. "He's not in it for the torture or for the twisted personal reasons of the Hannibal Lecters of the world. He's in it for the money, and maybe he's in it for the power. In a sense, they're almost normal reasons.mulberry bags for sale "Readers for more than a century have loved the character and wanted to see some more of him. Yes, OK, they like the idea that Holmes defeated him, because, of course, Holmes is our boy. But wouldn't it be great if it had taken a lot longer? And maybe he made some return appearances."
