Hellcat Girls

Philadelphia Weekly
June 13, 2007

A-List

my prince will come

Once Upon a Tassel: A Burlesque Tribute to Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Sat., June 16, 8pm. $12-$15. Trocadero, 1011 Arch St. 215.922.5483. www.thetroc.com

Is there a better way to top off a comics/sci-fi convention than an evening gawking at witches and fairy princesses wearing little more than sequined pasties?

The voluptuous vixens of the Hellcat Girls Burlesque troupe host the open-to-anyone Wizard World Comic Convention closing blowout with variations on a filthy fairytale theme.

Wait a minute. Scantily clad young women?

Eroticizing psychologically disturbing and id-addling sex stories dragged screaming from the scariest corners of the European folk-mind? At a comics convention?

It would of course be crass to stereotype the audience for this event as fat, bearded, bespectacled virginal male nerds.

Or to claim that those mouth-breathing geeks who don’t ejaculate in their polyester pants at the first glimpse of a gothically tasseled tit will be flocking to the Sharpie-stained stalls of the Troc bathrooms to practice some different strokes of their own.

So we won’t.

As a special bonus, Skeletor—evil skull-faced overlord of Eternia—will be mingling with the audience and mugging for the digital cameras.

Now that is exciting. (Joshua Valocchi)