Se7en #1

Back at the beginning of this month, I ran a story about a possible prequel to David Fincher's Se7en. At the end of that piece, I mentioned that there were 7 graphic novels in the making with various creators bringing the crimes of John Doe to the page, brilliantly drawn by Tommy Castillo. CBR got a look into the first of the 7 graphs: Gluttony, and have a chat with Tommy himself which you can catch HERE.

Check out the images below, which I think you'll find rather good!
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Moore's take on Porn

Alan Moore has written a 12,000 word essay for "Arthur Magazine" issue 25. It's entitled "Bog Venus Vs. Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography by Alan Moore" CBR had the story -

Look for your copy at the beginning of December... 50,000 copies will be available FREE across North America in record stores, comics stores, coffeehouses and various other dens of iniquity. Some copies will make it into London and Manchester, but not many.

People who want to guarantee themselves a copy should reserve one via the website.

This is interesting, as Moore has definately made his feelings on pornography known in the past. Particularly in reference to his extremely controversial "Lost Girls", in which Alice in Wonderland,Wendy from Peter Pan, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, meet in a Swiss hotel shortly before the first World War. Wendy, Dorothy and Alice, three very different women—one jaded and old; one trapped in a frigid adulthood; the last a spunky but innocent young American good-time girl—provide each other with the liberation they need, while also providing very different (and, for this is a pornography, very sexual) versions of the stories we associate with them. We go with the girls, in memory, to the incidents that became the Rabbit Hole, Oz and Neverland. As a formal exercise in pure comics, Lost Girls is as good as anything Moore has written. (One of my favorite moments: a husband and wife trapped in a frozen, loveless, sexless relationship, conduct a stiff conversation, laced with unconscious puns and wordplay, moving into positions that cause their shadows to appear to copulate wildly, finding the physical passion that the people are denied.)

Pretty snazzy stuff huh? If you're interested in taking a gander at Moore's depiction of these iconic childrens fantasy figures (that just sounds wrong...) then you can buy them at amazon