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Sure, Alan Moore "does" comics, but he has some of the most interesting ideas on sex I've ever read.

For the bored, here is an excellent interview on his graphic novel trilogy Lost Girls, featuring Wendy, Dorothy and Alice as we know them from Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland.

The books are not for the queasy or the prude. The well-known fairytale heroines find themselves in the unusual setting of Austria in the heady times leading up to The First World War. There, they create an erotic fantasyland for themselves, indulging in curious, some would say dangerous, wants. Soon enough, the war begins to trespass their raptures and that's... all I know.

But look at the some of the thinking behind the book:

"Why set Lost Girls during World War I?

We are trying to present sex and war as alternatives to one another. The pornography in Lost Girls is a testament to the human imagination, and particularly to the human sexual imagination, and the war that builds ominously throughout Lost Girls is the exact opposite of the human sexual imagination. I perceive war as the ultimate failure of the imagination. When we can't think of anything else to do, then we kill each other in staggering numbers."

- Interview by Nerve.com.


I've given up on erotica because most of it's so poorly written -- I get bored. I'm glad these two want to make something good out of it.

But I always thought of Wendy as pretty party-poopish (in Barrie's book, anyway). Tinkerbell had something going on, but Peter never really seemed to get it. . . That book seems so pre-sexual.

Interesting that the author decided to remake each of these girl-characters as women. Not sure if I get it. . .
 ing  


very interesting. i find the fact that the woman are referred to as 'lost girls' also quite intriguing.

do you know if this is available in sa yet?
 arcadia  


well, the complete set was only released worldwide on the 30th of August, so I think you'll struggle to find it in SA.
 N  


ing - on the most basic level, something like this is good even if it only pulls the erotica genre out of the thoughtless muck category for a brief while.

and wendy does seem like the 'i've got a headache type'.
 N  


It sounds wonderful! Good escapist reading. I will look it up.
 Wendy  


I am thinking more fuel for my fire...Mmmmm! Sounds delish!
 ~d  


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