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Title: Lost Girls: Book One by Melinda Gebbie ISBN: 0878164065 Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.8

Rating: 3
Summary: Not really my taste
Comment: I like Moore's work. Actually, I adore it, and have started collecting unfamiliar titles on the strength of his name. That's why I picked this up. Well, and also for my collection of Alice in Wonderland spin-offs.

Now, I like comic books, and i like unusual comic books. I don't need more superheroes (unless we get to see something new done with them, such as Watchmen or Top 10). I like some of the weirder, more stylistic stuff (Johnen Vasquez comes to mind) and I adore fantasy comics (Sandman, ElfQuest, Thieves World). This is all to say that I have a taste for variety and for trying out new things.

However, this one did very little for me. I have no complaints against the art. Though at times it does seem a bit flat or amateurish, it has a consistancy and a storytelling strength that makes the style work. The writing is also some of what Moore is best at, people being people in all their glory and foibles. Even so, I felt something was lacking. Maybe this simply an issue of the erotica genre, but Lost Girls didn't seem to have a hook to hang on.

What I love most in literature is the dream behind the reality; and Moore does play with this a bit in the first two stories, but i felt somewhat unsatisfied by a lack of anything really going on. The third story, "Missing Shadows," was, I think, the most clever. Using the storytelling power that only comics can muster (though film could certainly make a stab at it), it dissected a Victorian marriage with grace and subtlety that was shocking for its brevity.

Maybe the sense that nothing is really happening owes to this being the first volume of a series. But i don't think i have any interest in collecting more of it, and it's tempered my Moore enthusiasm a bit, so i'll be more wary of what I buy next. It probably shouldn't, but there it is.

In any case, this really is Moore doing what he does best, writing human souls. The flaws owe entirely, I think, to the kind of story being told, literary erotica. If that genre holds any interest for you, you'll probably find this well worth the reading; and if not, it's possible this could draw you in to an appreciation. But it's not for me, and I don't imagine it's for very many.

Rating: 5
Summary: WARNING!!!
Comment: The bad news it that this book is part of a series that was not completed before the publisher went bankrupt. However, Top Shelf is planning on publishing (finally after over 10 years of waiting) the full series in three hardcover collections and will make a slipcase available as well to store them in. It is my belief that this volume here only constitutes part of one of the planned Top Shelf collections, so buying this older softcover version will not likely save you any money. However, if the few chapters that have already been serialized in the now defunt Taboo anthology are any indication, this is some of Moore's best work.

Rating: 2
Summary: not worth it
Comment: Despite a promising story by Moore, the art is terrible. The coloring is not bad but the drawings are really, really amatuer and ruin the story. I've been a fan of alternative comics for over 10 yrs and was really looking forward to an adult meditation on sexuality by Moore but the art renders this book almost unreadable. Check it out at your local shop if possible before buying.

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