“My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”
Lost Girls, volume three
Sex in books is always an interesting topic - even more so in comic books. Where does one draw the line between art and erotica; between story telling and pornography. Sex is such an important part of adult life and yet we, as a society, tiptoe around it as if it is some boogy man hiding in our closets, waiting to pounce when we least expect it.
The Lost Girls trilogy addressed this wonderfully, I think.
Yes, its graphic; yes, its full of sex and lesbianism and masturbation and all those other things that we are not supposed to talk about - especially as women. But it serves its purpose, and it serves it exceptionally.
Now I'm not saying that every book should be packed cover to cover with sex, but as writing tool it can be very powerful, either as an aid to character and emotional development, or in this case, a thematic platform. The use of sex by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie to create such power and thought provoking contrasts was, in my opinion, truly inspired. Life and lust against the backdrop of the horrors and deaths of World War One told through the now grown up eyes of women so intrinsically linked with our childhoods - Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale and Alice. Opposites that all fit together so perfectly to form the whole.
The only thing that let the series down for me was the artwork itself. The look was just ever so slightly off for me. But with such a thought provoking effect on me, I was willing to work around that.
Three stars all up.
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