May 3, 2014
Wow, this is a book about a woman who struggles with sex addiction being locked in a room and sexually assaulted by a monster over the course of a week, which solves all her problems. If that sounds nice to you, you do not sound nice to me.
I think mostly I'm pissed because this is on so many "best horror comics" lists I've read, and not a single one of them mentions the fact that it's just. about. a woman. being raped. by a monster. For a week. Which is presented as not even a big deal to her! She's an FBI agent and after the monster lets her out (spoiler, once it has knocked her up, which she does not really seem to mind) she just, like, goes back to the room where she was held, to investigate the crime scene. No big deal, right? Sure she wouldn't mind going right back in there, immediately. Why would that be complicated for her.
On top of the fact that I'm mad at Alan Moore about this misogynist nonsense is the fact that the ending, and what it adds to the Chthulu mythos, *is* kind of cool. (Spoiler, although who cares because don't read this: What if "R'lyeh under the waters" didn't mean under the literal ocean but instead inside a uterus.) It just... didn't require all the detention and rape? You could have gotten there in ways that were so much more interesting and less predictably, boringly, tropily misogynist. Ugh. So bummed about this.
I think mostly I'm pissed because this is on so many "best horror comics" lists I've read, and not a single one of them mentions the fact that it's just. about. a woman. being raped. by a monster. For a week. Which is presented as not even a big deal to her! She's an FBI agent and after the monster lets her out (spoiler, once it has knocked her up, which she does not really seem to mind) she just, like, goes back to the room where she was held, to investigate the crime scene. No big deal, right? Sure she wouldn't mind going right back in there, immediately. Why would that be complicated for her.
On top of the fact that I'm mad at Alan Moore about this misogynist nonsense is the fact that the ending, and what it adds to the Chthulu mythos, *is* kind of cool. (Spoiler, although who cares because don't read this: What if "R'lyeh under the waters" didn't mean under the literal ocean but instead inside a uterus.) It just... didn't require all the detention and rape? You could have gotten there in ways that were so much more interesting and less predictably, boringly, tropily misogynist. Ugh. So bummed about this.