Anyone buying “Lost Girls”?

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

I’m just kind of curious. Rich Johnston (who has graduated from simply running assorted rumor…I’m sorry, rumour…bits strung together to actual whole investigative columns about things that matter) has done a very interesting commentary and overview of the upcoming sure-to-be-controversial “Lost Girls” which apparently the author, Alan Moore, himself describes as pornographic. It’s high-priced, but hey, it’s Moore. So I was curious as to whether anyone here was planning to order it.

PAD

80 comments on “Anyone buying “Lost Girls”?”

  1. Hmmm. Frankly the legal aspects of this book are scaring me away from buying it. People, it is child pørņ. You can get arrested for child pørņ. It is coming out as we approach election time.

    True, you may not be convicted, if arrested, if you can convince the jury that you are just a comic book geek, but it is going to ruin your life.

    As for the legal bills, will the CBLDF pay them for consumers who buy the book?

  2. The marketing almost tricked me into ordering Lost Girls. “Alan Moore’s new revolutionary pørņ epic!” It’s great hype. You want to be a part of it even if you aren’t really all that interested in the content.

    But once I came down from that initial feeling of “Mine.. It’s mine!!” I realized something very important, Peter…

    Lost Girls is chicks talking about their sexual adventures… in fairy worlds.

    I can’t even stomach a 20-second Sex In the City commercial. How am I gonna sit down and read this thing?

  3. SEAN MARTIN

    Since nobody else here seems able to give you a straight answer about the book, here is the addy for Top Shelf.

    http://www.topshelfcomix.com/

    3 oversized (9 x 12) 112-page, hardcover books with dust jackets and one slipcase. $75

    Signed and numbered, limited to 500, also limited to website orders—$150.

    9 x 12 size is like the Absolute Editions published in the last few years.
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    I figure monetary value of a book using 10 cents per page plus $10 per hardcover. This would be 112 pages x 3 x $0.10 ($33.60) plus $30 = $63.60. Add a bit for the slipcase and add a bit more for the books being oversized and $75 sounds reasonable to me.

    Artistic and cultural value? Well, that’s up to each individual.

  4. What’s funny is I just read the big 2 part interview with Alan and Melinda on Newsrama and then surfed over here to see Peter’s question.

    If you want to be truly informed by the author himself, READ THE INTERVIEW and then post here.

    I am definitely buying it.

    If you can’t get a good deal from your local shop– as mentioned– amazon is offering a very nice pre-order price.

  5. What’s funny is I just read the big 2 part interview with Alan and Melinda on Newsrama and then surfed over here to see Peter’s question.

    If you want to be truly informed by the author himself, READ THE INTERVIEW and then post here.

    I am definitely buying it.

    If you can’t get a good deal from your local shop– as mentioned– amazon is offering a very nice pre-order price.

  6. I like the theory that Moore is deliberately trying to make himself radioactive to moviemakers so that no more of his works are adapted.

    Nice plan, though that hasn’t stopped the director of New Wave Høøkërš from having a movie in the top 10 this week.

  7. I have the utmost affection for the creative work of Alan Moore.

    Nevertheless, I prefer my pornography to be cheap and devoid of even the pretense of a story. I think I’ll pass on this one.

    🙂

  8. I personally am going to wait until a less expensive edition comes out. I read the first two issues of the magazine-format version as they came out, and would like to see the additional material that finishes it, but $75 for a slipcase hardcover is too extravagant for this man’s wallet.

  9. I’m not buying “Lost Girls.” Based on the chapters that have already been published, it meets the most classic and trustworthy definition of Pornography available: from a story point of view, it’s boring as hëll, and its visual production values are amateurish at best.

  10. I am one of the minority who had absolutely no interest in Alan Moore’s writing, so I will not be buying that book.

  11. Nevertheless, I prefer my pornography to be cheap and devoid of even the pretense of a story.

    Well there you and I differ my friend. I think that it’s essential that the sex be an integral part of a well constructed plot. For example, in Cockodile Dun-me, this girl orders a pizza which is delivered by Ron Jeremy (Which is a great bit of spot on casting since the guys who deliver my pizzas all look like Ron Jeremy, which is why I do take out now, since I don’t particularly like the flavor of pepperoni and body hair) but when he gets there, in a scene that I never saw coming (fnar! fnar!) she discovers that she doesn’t have enough money to pay him! Well, I’m not gonna spoil the surprise but let’s just say the twists and turns never stop from that point on…

  13. This is why I read reviews, and rarely if ever buy sight unseen. This sounds to me like an adaptation of a pørņ movie once run by my old Rocky Horror Live Cast at a party. It wasn’t really fun or erotic either.

    My only curiousity is why Moore is so determined to be offensive. He doesn’t seem to be saying anything interesting or human with this exploration of sexuality. (As opposed to the previously mentioned Phil Foglio, whose erotic stuff always shows his female characters as complete and smart people, even in the throes of lust.)

    Moore is going to hurt himself with this. The problem with being an iconoclast is that when you walk around, you get sharp shards of the icons you broke stuck in your feet.

  14. Kathleen David said

    One option is to put it on a high shelf and not make a big deal about it. The less they know that it is there the less chance that they go to look at it. My parents did have a shelf that they put books that they informed us that we could not touch without their permission. Most were fiction books with a scene or two of more adult content like the Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski who also [wrote] Being There….

    Having already used up my “Kathy-is-very-tall” joke quta, i shall not speculate on where that shelf was.

    OTOH, mentin of “Being There” prompts me to mention that my sister Kathrin and her husband (then boyfriend), David Scott helped on the construction of the mausoleum set for the funeral scene in the film.

  15. Well, I, for one, have been waiting for this book since the last chapter appeared in “Taboo” over a decade ago.

  16. This wasn’t even on my radar. Thanks for heads up.

    Maybe. Look interesting and if it’s as fun as LEG was then I’ll buy it but a Wode Newton Sex in the City doesn’t exactly sound that good. An open mind, eh?

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    I think I will. Actually just depends on my mood and if the store has copies for sale. If you have to pre-order…no.
    As for Rich Johnson. I like how people complain and say he’s talking out of his butt when the majority of his “rumors” turn out true. Just takes a while for them to actually be proven.

  19. Not only have I pre-ordered it, Mr. Johnston’s review in LITG convinced me to order the signed edition.

    If anyone can write literate porography it is Alan Moore.

    Also as a father of a 2 year old son, this book will be kept upstairs in my bedroom and he can’t look at it, like he could the Superman comics that he loves.

  20. I’m not going to buy this book. I’m not enough of a comic (or pørņ) connoseur.

    I don’t think it should be censored, since no actual children were harmed. But I don’t think I approve of a comic that has depiction of child sexuality. Even if the freedom of speech probably should not be denied, criticism seems to be in order. Although I can’t know for certain since I haven’t seen the book and I don’t know the context.

  21. PAD,

    Speaking of Rich Johnston, I think it is very cool of you to let IDW use your name and likeness as a suspect in their CSI mini Dying in the Gutters.

    I highly doubt that they will make a big name pro the murderer, but I was astonished with the names they got the okay to use.

  22. I’ve already ordered Alan Moore’s Lost Girls Deluxe Hardcover Slipcase Edition.
    For a similar, but not the same, reason I bought the new Dixie Chicks music CD.
    They (AM, MG, & the DC) have something to say, and if the repressive bushistas don’t like it, all the more important it gets said. My finger to the Man.

  23. Yeah, I bought the Dixie Chicks new CD, too.

    I don’t support PC censorship like that.

  24. Yeah I will be buying this.

    I am very interested in it now. I preordered it only knowing it was a new Moore piece initially. Been reading quite a few interviews with Moore and Gebbie on the book.

    I cannot wait.

  25. Yes.

    It’s an astounding piece of comics work. I’ve read it in black and white, I need it in colour.

    It is as disturbing as From Hëll. It sits bizarrely between that and League in Moore’s ouvre.

    And wait till you get to the bit with the crocodile.

  26. I don’t buy child pørņ. even drawings. In my opinjion, that part is just sick. the rest of it, I don’t care, but I’m just not into pørņ so I’d pass anyway. and I am not a fan of taking children’s characters making them into something they aren’t

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    (Web Master: It’s OK I removed the additional two posts but left this one so you know what happened)

  29. Alan’s (pre-ordered) Opus just arrived today from Amazon like clockwork– with no snags, delays or lawmen at my door ready to take me downtown for accepting delivery. Can’t wait to dive in.

  30. Alan’s (pre-ordered) Opus just arrived today from Amazon like clockwork– with no snags, delays or lawmen at my door ready to take me downtown for accepting delivery. Can’t wait to dive in.

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