By any serious measure, this is a terrible, terrible story. It starts with a Central American heavy pointing out a little girl in a crowd and asking his flunky to go get her for him. It then goes on to depict sexual assault on a minor, weird sexual tortures on the woman who tries to rescue her, the assaulters having a homosexual interlude while dropping the dime to a Nazi and the escaped assaultees encountering Pablo Picasso. The only really redeeming feature of this rapidly sinking story is this page, where Picasso has the three dress up in Cubist costumes so that they can disappear into the crowd during the Spring festivities.

There’s probably some kind of pointed social commentary that I’m completely unaware of here, but I’m not really sure that I’m invested enough to actually seek it out.

(Heavy Metal issue #63, June 1982 – Page 45 Little Star in New York by Ceesepe)