Friday, October 4, 2013

Alan Moore's Cobweb in "Doll-O-Vision"

I feel like every other post on The Great Comic Book Heroes is on an Alan Moore comic. I don't mean to favor him, it's just that I find his work so inspiring. For example I was reminded of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's character Cobweb the other day. She is a typical 40's style cheese cake superheroine. She doesn't have any real superpowers but what she does have is a see through costume and no undies. Perfect to make a 13 year old boy's mind go wild with lustful thoughts.



I think this strip really shows off Moore at his funniest. I get tickled seeing this grown man playing with these girls like a 12 year old with his sister's Barbies, stripping them naked and putting them in the most compromising positions. And the hamster wheel is just comedic genius!

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  1. The "doll torture chamber" was, of course, a reference to the gruesome Aurora model kits which allowed kids to build Vampirella, Frankenstein's monster, the mad Dr. Deadly, a hapless victim in hot pants, a laboratory setup and an axe-blade pendulum device: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9IKntPxLazw/T0rYQAo0DZI/AAAAAAAAA4k/RlCcD1nRWnA/s1600/Detective+Comics+%23414+-+Page+8.jpg

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