by The World Weary
Authors: Alan Moore
Illustrators: Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Knockabout Comics
Genre: Comic Pornography
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Lost
Girls is an extremely graphic exploration of sexuality that builds to
insane levels of pornographic madness. Alan Moore was quoted as saying
he wanted to bring some dignity to an otherwise cheap and notoriously
lowball genre, and he succeeds. His literary prowess is still in top
form, and Melinda Gebbie’s art is haunting and sometimes terrifying,
while still managing to capture beauty. A strange read, certainly not
for the conservative, Lost Girls is a opium and bodily fluid soaked
trip.
Until recently, I always entertained the notion of a “classy” porno, and Playboy doesn’t count. Sure there are the big budget films like Pirates and its sequel, but those films were still little more than sex scenes strung together by a loose and mostly void plot. I wondered what it would be like if someone tried to bring some artistic merit to the genre, while still making a erotic spectacle. Well, Alan Moore, writer of Watchmen, had the same thought. The difference is, he put that thought into action.
