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Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from Kansas, and Wendy Darling check into a European hotel on the cusp of World War I...
It sounds like the beginning of a fairly involved joke, but it's actually the plot of Alan Moore's and Melinda Gebbie's latest project, Lost Girls, a three-volume hardcover series exploring almost every tasty nook and cranny of sexuality as we know it. The insides are chock full of luscious panels displaying our three beloved and lovely heroines reinterpreting their old stories in a brand new light.
"Pornographies are the enchanted parkland where the most secret and vulnerable of our many selves can play," states one of the secondary characters in Lost Girls. This idea sums up perfectly the main theme that is the backbone of the tale, where fantasy, however perverse, has an undercurrent of innocence and playfulness. Fantasy is presented as an instrument through which the main characters process and cope with their lives and the traumas they have suffered.
The material is extremely graphic, and basically every sexual taboo is explored, including incest and pedophilia. But what makes this book such a worthwhile item to have on your shelves is the way it deals with these ideas and the message it carries: That fantasy is just that, fantasy. And there's nothing dirty about that.
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