Dodgem Logic #2 by Alan Moore & Others, Knockabout Comics, $6.00
The publisher says:
After the appreciative reception afforded to its premier edition, lauded throughout the gutters of the world, the second issue of Alan Moore’s mystifying new underground publication
Dodgem Logic is now available. Delivering 52 pages of full-colour solid content thanks to its flinty-eyed Puritan policy of no advertisements, this plucky bi-monthly periodical is stuffed to the gills with wisdom and wonderment. Behind three luscious variant (and random) covers, we have this issue’s cover feature, a sexy yet somehow sinister Burlesque photo spread from internationally acclaimed maestro Mitch Jenkins with an accompanying article on Burlesque past, present and future by our exotica expert, Melinda Gebbie. And extending the ingratiating policy of quaintly and nostalgically including a free gift with every issue, and replacing the astonishing free CD of our debut,
Dodgem Logic‘s unkempt figurehead and founder also contributes a questionable eight-page mini-comic, Astounding Weird Penises, being the only solo comic book that he has managed to create in his otherwise lazy thirty year career.
Paul Gravett says:
Yes, this was supposed to be out a while ago, and it’s on sale in the UK now, but the publishers had a problem with the printers and so had to return most of the copies to them, because they had neglected to insert Alan’s comic in every issue. Which of course is the main reason that most comics fans would purchase the mag in the first place. Moore’s “first” original comic entirely written and drawn by him is an almost unforgivably over-the-top, sci-fi sex-romp on eight A5-size colour pages. Watchmen, this is not! I did ask the Northampton magus if one of his inspirations for this might have been the late comedian Bob Monkhouse’s bizarre penis-headed aliens who fought his superhero The Tornado (as resurrected in Great British Fantasy Comic Book Heroes, my pick of the Best Reprint Comics volume of 2009). Alan told me no, though he has a copy of this fine tome. The life of the mind is all here between these variant burlesque covers, from the stars to the gutter and back again.
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