CC's review
Lost Girls
by Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
CC's review
Lost Girls by Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
CC's review
rating:
I wanted to like this. I didn't.
It's porn, deliberately so according to Alan Moore, and drops references galore and excessive to the artful pornographies of years gone by: mostly the Art Nouveau/Symbolist/Decadent movements. But porn has changed since then, for the worse, and where the illict desires previously deserved their own attention, our sexualized world now takes that desire for granted. What would people want to do, after all, besides suck and fuck one another?
(To a more disturbing end, unfortunately implied in this story, what would *women* want to do besides suck and fuck? Can you solve all your psycho-sexual troubles by having rosy orgies? And as someone else pointed out, where are the Lost Boys?)
That presumption kills the turnon, though, and you can only see so many panels of very similar breasts and cocks and dildoes before it all becomes monotone. Like our media-at-large, the magic is killed by the constant, flattened excess.
Funny, because the Lost Girls h...more
It's porn, deliberately so according to Alan Moore, and drops references galore and excessive to the artful pornographies of years gone by: mostly the Art Nouveau/Symbolist/Decadent movements. But porn has changed since then, for the worse, and where the illict desires previously deserved their own attention, our sexualized world now takes that desire for granted. What would people want to do, after all, besides suck and fuck one another?
(To a more disturbing end, unfortunately implied in this story, what would *women* want to do besides suck and fuck? Can you solve all your psycho-sexual troubles by having rosy orgies? And as someone else pointed out, where are the Lost Boys?)
That presumption kills the turnon, though, and you can only see so many panels of very similar breasts and cocks and dildoes before it all becomes monotone. Like our media-at-large, the magic is killed by the constant, flattened excess.
Funny, because the Lost Girls h...more
