It's like a Tin Tin story with prostitues

It's Nancy Drew, except Nancy is a dominatrix.Ok, so not exactly. There's a serial killer on the loose in 20s Paris, and the sister of one of his victims has to go undercover as the virgin dom at a high-society brothel to exact her revenge.Candy for me. Though I'm not sure what that says about me.This is a great example of a GN where I don't find the art very attractive, but got completely sucked in by the story. I love that about good GN writing.It's very graphic, both sexually and violence-wis...

Paris, early 20th century. A young maid called Florence witnesses the murder of a high class prostitute in an abandoned building by two men. Hysterical, she rushes out to find her sister, a more outgoing and fun loving soul who goes back to the room to prove her sister imagined it all - and is then shot. Cast out of her house and grieving her dead sister, Florence begins hunting the murderers, a chase that leads her to one of the classiest brothels in Paris, the Pompadour. There she becomes one

Blanche has a LOT of pent up rage, and who can blame her? Her sister was murdered by a serial killer, the authorities didn't believe her when she told them what really happened and called it suicide, and then her employer fired her and sent her off into the street without a reference. You simply can't have girls whose sisters kill themselves working for you, scandalous! She's furious and out to find the men who killed her sister. She gets an opportunity to use that rage when, in her not-very-ski...

Probably better than any other culture-group, the French have over and again adapted the conventions of noir cinema to their own works. This is fitting, after all, as film noir was a critical designation invented by the French to describe a certain mode of crime thriller. Made popular in the '40s in the US, noir is generally counted to span the era of 1941 to 1958—from The Maltese Falcon to Touch of Evil, as it were. Yet though film noir in its traditional, classic sense dies off in 1958 with Or...

What's not to like? A crime thriller set in a thirties Paris brothel, where a woman, Blanche, whose sister was murdered by some serial killer, gets "a job" in the brothel to see if she can get some insight/explore/snoop around into who mightta dunnit. And she's a virgin, our Blanche, ha.Do we believe that this girl can get a job as a "prostitute" and remain a "virgin dominatrix" (her shtick in the brothel, as it turns out)? Nah, but it's pretty fun, and sort of titillating (more so for a man tha...

oh my. This is a racy little graphic novel that stills manages to be charming and stylish. Probably because it is written by the French and they can get away with being risque and tasteful. The graphic style reminds me of Kate Beaton... only with more nipples and exclusively about murder and prostitutes in post-WWI Paris. I get the impression she'd like it (you know... because of its style and her interest in European history... not because of the graphic nature). The pacing is great and the cha...

Not impressed. Whoever translated the text did an inferior job- the language was choppy and stilted, but some of the plot points were awkward as well. I wasn't overly impressed with the artwork either.

Fair Warning: This book is quite graphic, but that’s to be expected when you read a graphic novel in which the main characters are prostitutes.There’s a murderer in Paris, and they call him “The Butcher of the Dances,” preying on loose women at dances and whatnot. The main character, Blanche, has a sister who is murdered by this serial killer, so she goes on a little journey (into a brothel) to find out who killed her sister. Can she work undercover in a brothel and find out who the killer is an...

A serial killer on the loose, a high class brothel, a sister seeking justice and revenge. Sex and violence, those staples of entertainment that we seem to have an insatiable appetite for are given a playful working in this delicious graphic novel. The media dubbed 'Butcher of the Dances' prowls the streets of Paris in the early twentieth century, seeking young woman returning from suburban late-night dances to make them a headline. Witness the Butcher at work with his latest victim and her siste...

Blanche is convinced that her sister Agatha was murdered by the Butcher of the Dances when she is shot in their tiny apartment after they discover a peephole between their room and the next building. When the authorities arrive the murder weapon is in Agatha’s own hand and they decide it’s a suicide. Blanche is determined to find the real killer(s) and ends up taking a job in an upscale brothel where the last victim of the Butcher is said to have worked. She becomes “Miss Don’t Touch Me,” a domi...

I was enjoying this quite a bit. Then, without seemingly any narrative reason, the artist undressed a character who I thought of as trans. Literally nothing seemed to happening in the story that required or was furthered by this full reveal of her body. There was very little similar treatment of other characters that we're supposed to like, despite most of the book taking place in a bordello. It just took me right out of the story. I don't know my trans history well enough to understand how Miss...

Reading this comic by the Frenchman Hubert, I was not surprised at all that it reminded me of Little Vampire because apparently the husband-wife team of Kerascoet (who illustrated this volume) also did work in the Little Vampire series, as well as another spooky favorite of mine, Beautiful Darkness.Very much a noir sort of story, I would like to hold this up as a good example of a noir story that is not misogynistic, and written by a man no less. While the story does certainly still centre aroun...

It's weird that I read this right after Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick. Both are great, but a little risqué to read on the bus.

Miss Don't Touch Me is the story of a girl, Blanche, who works with her sister, Agatha, as a live-in maid in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. When Blanche witnesses her sister’s murder, her world is destroyed. People think Agatha committed suicide, and nobody will believe Blanche. She goes on a mission to avenge Agatha’s death, which takes her into a realm of prostitution, murder, and deceit.It is both hard to believe and a relief that Agatha can manage to work at a brothel and not ev...

This graphic novel had a really brilliant mystery and the cast of characters kept you engaged throughout about the storyline. Blanche was a really intriguing character and her boldness as she dove into a world she knew nothing about to resolve something for herself was really interesting. The art in this volume was beautiful and meticulously detailed where it needed to be. I also really loved the use of color during more heightened events.

This is the story of a girl, Blanche, who works with her sister, Agatha, as a live-in maid in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. When Blanche witnesses her sister’s murder, her world is destroyed. People think Agatha committed suicide, and nobody will believe Blanche. She goes on a mission to avenge Agatha’s death, which takes her into a realm of prostitution, murder, and deceit.It is both hard to believe and a relief that Agatha can manage to work at a brothel and not even have to take...

This felt like an R-rated version of a Scooby Doo episode, with admittedly no van and way fewer dogs (except for that one guy who liked to bark)...and with a decidedly noticeable increase in vajay-jay and sexy times. An improvement, really ;).You could definitely feel the French in this story...it had a much more open and honest view on sex and prostitution while still being decadent and glamorous (or at least as glamorous as sex work can get). An interesting mix in any case, and an interesting

Blanche begins this story as a housemaid, but is drawn into trying to find "the butcher of the dances," who she believes murdered her sister. In the process, she finds herself working at a high-class house of call-girls, and gets drawn into much more than she bargained for. There are a few interesting characters, though. For example, Josephine, a transsexual, is mysterious and complex. But most of the other characters are fairly one-sided. And most men in the story are portrayed as at best the v...

It's like Amelia Bedelia but she's a sexy scorned french assassin/sex worker. and also josephine baker is there