Eros's Rebecca collections
   MILFs On Mars
   Housewives At Play
   More Housewives At Play
   Love Letters
   Alone With Me
   Teens At Play
                                             (1998-2008 - Eros Comix)  

The books here are laid out in groupings that make sense to us, but the most accurate ranking of their presentaion, best to least so, would be: MILFs On Mars / Alone With Me / More Housewives At Play / Love Letters / Housewives At Play / Teens At Play.

      MILFs On Mars    (2007)    (cover partially withheld)    Not appropriate for children or adolescents.  Years after starting her exposé series of drawings, shining a light on the hi-jinks of HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY and TEENS AT PLAY, with you perhaps thinking the seemingly endless flow of those editions was just becoming sad and heading toward pitiful, the artist Rebecca took a new direction and repackaged some of the same ideas in a futuristic wrapping.  The change is welcome, but don't expect an entire new style or theme.  The book is 48 pages and with the cover, provides 40 full-page drawings with another five turned sideways.  It is nice that with moving her whole operation to another world, her first exploration is that of standard (innocent ?) pin-up, using well more than half the book to explore the images of these buxom women wearing the skin-tight spacesuits of the future (or in the process of removing them).  It is the smaller remaining section that moves everything to the adults-only planet, albeit having nowhere near the raunchiness of her other volumes.

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HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY series     (some covers partially withheld)   Definitely not for children or adolescents.  The books' humorous focus is the mischief that wives get up to when the husband's away, but the frequent 'sight gag' of the husband's surprised return, with accompanying shocked reaction, begins to feel distractingly repetitious in these collections.  All of the pieces are full-page.  Nothing is titled or captioned and indeed the work, in such a narrow scheme, can seem a bit churned out.  Nearly every page is extreme in its embracing of adult themes and the books could not be considered tame by any light. To be kept away from children.

     HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY   (1998)   This first volume has a number of pencil pieces that are 'loose', before settling in to a more disciplined tighter-line style.  Color covers and 61 pages of drawings here, but a very disappointing 15 of the images are turned on their sides.  While one should be ready for anything in an adults-only tome, some of these depictions are a bit troubling in their suggested hints that neighborhood women have ganged-up to put some unfortunate through humiliations.  Involving pregnancy and lactation in your fantastical debauchery would seem to me to push a collection far closer to the fringe.  Particular care should be taken by owners that it not accidentally fall into the hands of minors.

     MORE HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY   (2000)    is considered the second book in the series, but chronology isn't really important.  59 pages of drawings with front & back covers in color.  Though this volume presents its art a bit better than its predecessor, there are still six images turned sideways, and there are two double-page spreads, both with the book's gutter cutting somebody's body in half.  The disturbing sadism and apparent adult bullying of the earlier book is thankfully not as prevalent in this one, and, more playfully, the focus seems to have subtly shifted to the aspect that there are few objects in our households that can't be turned to a use 'different' from what their manufacturers intended.  Certainly any number of fetishes are on parade here and, again, this book should be kept away from children.

     HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY - LOVE LETTERS   (2008)    is a much later edition, slimmer, but more of the same.  The title suggests a particular theme, but only the color cover itself could be said to follow it - the drawings inside show no signs of it.  48 pages with 37 full-page drawings and another seven turned sideways.  From a now jaded perspective, this one seems to just be going through the motions, exercising some of the same fetishes, without the naughty, impish playfulness the artist started with.

     HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY - ALONE WITH ME   (2008)    actually scores as the best HOUSEWIVES collection, presentation-wise.  41 full-page drawings (counting the colored cover) with four more turned sideways.  As the title might suggest, in this volume, a different theme is taken out for a walk.  The subjects here, only one to a page, are depicted in the throes of self-pleasure.  The naughtiness in the other books makes for lite fantasy, but I feel we've evolved as a community over the decades, and certainly thru the last two, very few people still associate this natural activity with naughtiness - so - these images are not in any way extreme in the earlier fashion and just come across to me as invasions of privacy and thereby not particularly entertaining.  Maybe neighborly peeking-tom-ism has more adherents than I imagine.

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     TEENS AT PLAY (LIKE MOTHERS LIKE DAUGHTERS)   (2006)    (Cover partially withheld)  Definitely not for children or adolescents.  This book was the first in the TEENS AT PLAY books, which was an off-shoot of Rebecca's HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY series.  While housewives, as a group, seemed fair game for satirical (albeit titillating) volumes about their hi-jinks, going to teen-land disturbingly feels like we are going too far into taboo territory.  With that said, there's usually nothing in these depictions of women to make them any different than the artist's images of young housewives.  It is only occasionally, with settings or props, that the females might suggest being underage to someone without having to be told   (I mean that's really the prurient aspect at play, right ?).  Some of the drawings are simply pin-ups, but a number involve partners, or the aftermath of activities that certainly take them far into adults-only territory.  The fixation on bodily fluids in a portion of the images does not enhance the package, but maybe that's just me.  This is a 48-page book with 30 'well-presented' drawings along with those on the front and back covers. Another dozen of the pieces are turned sideways leaving the rest for interstitial title pages and the like.

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