red7ine
09-06-2006, 08:32 AM
not seen anyone else talk about it on here, so I figured I would give it a go:
I've only finished the first of the three books, and it's pretty damn good. Moore's characters, even is their absurdity, always seem real. The book is obviously highly sexual, and graphically depicted as such, but you still believe in the characters and their actions. The first book starts off kind of muddled, and I'm not sure how much of that is due to the artwork or storytelling, but once it picks up it sweeps you up in the story. Book one is the introductions to the characters, who all had unique experiences tied in with their sexual awakenings. They coincidentally meet at a hotel and soon discover each other.
Like Moore's other deconstructionist works, the characters seem at first to be echoes of their 'real' counterparts, but his smart writing allows the story to become not just a 'what if' scenario, but instead a 'probably happened and just nobody told it yet', much like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The art is passable at first look, but once you get used to the style, the quirkiness kind of carries it along and you can overlook anatomical quirks and stiff character placement. This isn't a book that would be served well with 'traditional' line-art comic artwork and coloring, splash pages, or other standards of the tights n' capes comics.
If you can get over the price (you can get it about 1/2 cover price through Amazon) it's well worth it. It's probably not a book you want to shove onto a first time comic reader as well, and it is VERY graphic (but not 'wanking material' scuzzy, if that makes any sense).
I've only finished the first of the three books, and it's pretty damn good. Moore's characters, even is their absurdity, always seem real. The book is obviously highly sexual, and graphically depicted as such, but you still believe in the characters and their actions. The first book starts off kind of muddled, and I'm not sure how much of that is due to the artwork or storytelling, but once it picks up it sweeps you up in the story. Book one is the introductions to the characters, who all had unique experiences tied in with their sexual awakenings. They coincidentally meet at a hotel and soon discover each other.
Like Moore's other deconstructionist works, the characters seem at first to be echoes of their 'real' counterparts, but his smart writing allows the story to become not just a 'what if' scenario, but instead a 'probably happened and just nobody told it yet', much like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The art is passable at first look, but once you get used to the style, the quirkiness kind of carries it along and you can overlook anatomical quirks and stiff character placement. This isn't a book that would be served well with 'traditional' line-art comic artwork and coloring, splash pages, or other standards of the tights n' capes comics.
If you can get over the price (you can get it about 1/2 cover price through Amazon) it's well worth it. It's probably not a book you want to shove onto a first time comic reader as well, and it is VERY graphic (but not 'wanking material' scuzzy, if that makes any sense).