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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-09 05:00:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	Tom Lehrer
Entry tags:	creator: alan moore, creator: steve parkhouse

Sex, With Ginda Bojeffries
Frighteningly, I think this is safe for work.

Yes, I've been saving all these up for a while.
So: this is Alan Moore & Steve Parkhouse's long out of print "Bojeffries Saga." Which I just happen to have the Tundra edition of, which this is from.
This is the dread Ginda Bojeffries. This is in answer to a LOST GIRLS post which was unintentional squick.
Here is Moore being squicky entirely on purpose, to break your brain. Behold and shudder.

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	icon_uk 2009-06-09 08:06 am UTC (link)
	Well, if I wasn't gay before reading this! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-06-09 08:13 am UTC (link)
	Best. Possible. Reply. Sputter. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	citygod 2009-06-09 01:34 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not gay but after that, I'm considering it. Not to be too serious, but I really think that Moore's sense of humour is vital to understanding his work, even the more serious stuff. I can feel his wry, droll, understated but absurd humour behind most of his writing - if you don't get that, I don't think you get him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-09 01:57 pm UTC (link)
	If you're not reading Alan Moore through either natural British humour or an appropriate substitute acquired filter, I don't know HOW you'd enjoy it half as much. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	midare 2009-06-09 08:12 am UTC (link)
	...what did I just read? Oh, a Hitler doll. That explains a bit. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-09 09:08 am UTC (link)
	The Bojeffries pretty much defy description or explanation, except to imagine the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (The UK comedy team, not the Alan Moore comic) performing a deeply disfunctional piss take on "The Addams Family" written by the Monty Python team on dodgy medication. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-06-09 09:12 am UTC (link)

With a small dose of the Young Ones.

Oh, and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bojeffries_Saga#Publication_history
In 2004 Parkhouse suggested there would be no more stories,[6] however A1-editor Dave Elliott and Gary Spencer Millidge (editor of Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman) have both suggested there will be more stories[7] while long-time Moore-collaborator, Kevin O'Neill said, in September 2008, that Moore was taking breaks from working with him on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century to finish the finale of the Bojeffries Saga.[8] Moore confirmed that and gave more details about the story and a collection from Top Shelf Productions:
“Yeah, I have written a final Bojeffries – well, I don’t know if it’s a final – but I’ve written a kind of, it wouldn’t hurt if it was the last one, although maybe me and Steve will want to do some more with them.

What we’re going to do is, we’re going to collect up, with Top Shelf, all of the Bojeffries material that’s appeared to date, and we’re going to cap it all off with a twenty-four page story called After They Were Famous, which is the Bojeffries in 2009, existing side-by-side with culture as it is now, as opposed to culture as it was in the eighties and the early nineties."

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	stig 2009-06-09 09:24 am UTC (link)
	Reminds me of Millie Tant in 'Viz'. Posy Simmonds used to dabble in similar but slightly milder territory too. (Reply to this)

parsimonia
2009-06-09 09:52 am UTC (link)

This appears to be a complete story. Please keep in mind our posting guidelines and specifically #4 which states: 4. No more than one third the length of any single work should be posted on this community. In layman's terms, work refers to a story or chapter within a single issue or book. That's 7 pages of a standard American comic. In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count of individual stories. Stories that are 1-2 pages in length may be posted in full.

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	galateus 2009-06-09 10:21 am UTC (link)
	Somehow, when I saw "sex" in the subject line and "horror" in the tags... Somehow. I knew. Yet I still was not prepared. (Reply to this)

khaosworks
2009-06-09 11:00 am UTC (link)

"Short, sharp cries, like an animal in pain. Ouch. Ouch, my paw. Ouch." This completely killed me when I first read it. That, and all the other Bojefferies stories, since the WARRIOR days.

For those who have not experienced the beautiful insanity that is the Bojefferies Saga, I believe Top Shelf is going to release another collected edition soon - Moore is trying to fit schedules with Parkhouse so they can do a new Bojefferies story as well.

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	jlroberson 2009-06-10 12:41 am UTC (link)
	I remember I used to score coolness points with my non-comics-reading friends(which is to say ALL of them, but they weren't non for long) by showing them this and other stories like it around 88-91. Which is a period of comics, adding the few before that, which I STILL look back on with wonder. Plentiful, quality, and cheap. Like the best drugs should be. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-06-09 11:57 am UTC (link)
	Well, my nipples have a glazed, far-away look now. (Reply to this)

	besamim 2009-06-09 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Funniest thing I've read in a long time. Thanks! (Reply to this)

	dr_hermes 2009-06-09 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	What a pleasant surprise, one of the Bojeffries strips that I missed. Thanks for posting, this is hysterical. "One Perfect Moment" theme has brought back the old scans_daily spirit of variety. Honestly, nothing but Wonder Woman, the Batman colony and X-Men gets a little tedious. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-06-09 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	Damn straight for the full rainbow of variety in delicious S_D crack! Although I gotta say this story leaves me utterly cold. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-06-09 11:58 pm UTC (link)

I for one would like to see a lot more indie and foreign stuff here. Especially stuff from the b/w anthologies Fantagraphics and others used to put out. And there's SO much PD strip material too.

And more Pat Mills. Especially from CRISIS. In fact, lots and lots of CRISIS and REVOLVER. That's what I'd like to see.

All due respect to the Marvel and DC folks. It's just that there's plenty of room for the rest of this great medium we call comics. This at its best isn't some bootleg site. It should be a place to become familiar with that you might not otherwise. (as, perversely in my case, it was for me when it came to mainstream, not my first choice at the comics store even back to my teens)

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psychop_rex
2009-06-11 03:05 am UTC (link)

You know, all those people screaming about how sex ed in schools leads to moral degradation and babies being born out of wedlock should really consider simply replacing it with this sort of stuff. I guarantee you, there'd never be another baby born out of wedlock again. In fact, it's quite possible that there'd never be another baby born, period, because sex would most likely vanish entirely.

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