Max and Bird are back (and back on track)! First, a quick trip to the short box to read two one-shots. (We highly recommend Peter Milligan's The Eaters.)

Then it's back to the main feature: a deep, nuanced dig into one of the best comics either of the Nuptualed Nerds has ever read: Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls. The aesthetics sensuality, an appreciation of erotica, and exactly why Absinthe and Opium go so well together. All this and more: settle in, set your fountain dripping, and wait for the louche...