by Reed Waller & Kate Worley Publisher: NBM Publishing
Softcover, 112 pages
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“Omaha
the Cat Dancer is a soap opera, but it's a drama, not a melodrama; it’s a funny
animal comic, but the funny animals are real people; and its neither erotica
nor pornography - simply a story in which the virtual cameras continue to roll
while people take their clothes off and make love (just as they do in the world
you and I inhabit) - delineated with an unblinking charm which has the odd
effect (for me at least) of making one wonder where all the sex has gone in the
other fictions one reads or hears or sees…”
-From
the introduction by Neil Giaman
Here
we are back again with volume five of The Complete Omaha, the most
controversial comic of the 1990s (and possibly beyond- thought most comic
“fans” don’t seem to have heard of it. In fact they never seem to have heard of
anything that isn’t shit out by Marvel or DC. Is that really a comics fan? Or
is it just a fanatic for those two companies? Lady and the Tiger- the choice is
yours). This book collects issues 14 through 17 of the series.
For
a series where one of the main selling points was graphically portrayed sex, I
will say that it never became repetitive. The author and artist was always
trying new things. Here we have the first lesbian sex scene amidst a host of
other titillating scenes, averaging about one per issues- so four!
The
soap opera continues. The investigation into Senator Bonner assassination moves
away from the prostitute Joanne and starts to focus on Omaha after the police
discover that she, coincidentally, moved out of town the same day the senator
was killed. Omaha begins her new life as a stripper and meets a new guy, while
her old guy becomes ground further and further down into the much of the world.
Both Omaha and Chuck find solace in other lovers, while political forces
maneuver to complete the corrupt A-block renovation.
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