WATCHWOMEN - a WATCHMEN burlesque act

Monday, June 8, 2009

This clip features the lovely ladies of Philadelphia's Peek-a-Boo Revue doing a "burlesk tribute" (sic) to the groundbreaking graphic novel, Watchmen. It's a bizarre mix of Alan Moore and Dita Von Teese, with a bosomy Comedian (with stars-and-stripes pasties!) and a trench-coated Rorschach-ette striking stripper poses in front of a big yellow doomsday clock. There's also a pretty woman version of Doctor Manhattan with atomic boobies, and one poor girl trying her darndest to make a very clunky Nite Owl outfit look sexy. I'm guessing the blond is Ozymandias, but I have no idea who the leather lady with the fishnets is supposed to be. I'm pretty sure she's not Laurie Juspeczyk. Is she supposed to be Twilight Lady?

This clip almost feels like something from the Watchmen universe. It's not hard to imagine some sleazy Times Square strip joint owner cooking up an act like this in Moore's 1985 New York. (And then Rorschach would bust into the guy's penthouse at 4 AM, and break his fingers.)

Note that there a few glances of Comedian boob in this clip, just enough that it's probably NSFW.




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2 comments:

Anonymous June 8, 2009 at 7:12 PM  

She's Silk Spectre. She makes out with Nite Owl.

Greg Stacy . June 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM  

That makes the most sense. But while the other girls' costumes are pretty clearly based on the costumes from the comics, hers really doesn't look have much in common with Silk Spectre... In the comic there's also that dream sequence where Dan kisses the Twilight Lady, so that made me wonder... Her all-black outfit is a little closer to the one in the video.

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