After today my interview with Drake will speak for itself over at Medusariffic, but before I do that I just need to add a word of praise of his answer to one of my questions.
Yes. Absolutely the right answer. Just do it.
And to see just how it’s done, head over to Medusariffic starting tomorrow and download the whole interview issue (#60). That’s good reading.
A tease, and then a comment, and then another tease.
One of the questions I posed to Drake at Medusariffic was “what of you work was your proudest of?” He answered me thus:
Now it’s perhaps unfair of me to ask questions only without answering a few myself. My own question to me would be, “What among Drake’s work gave you most joy?”
I think the answer up until now would lie in a sequence that lies within a hundreds-of-panels-long sequence Drake created as a Halloween special a few years back. The premise behind the narrative is that a bunch of Drake’s cast of characters gets together for a big Halloween party. Everyone dresses up in costume and then runs about playing a very literal version of freeze tag — get caught and you get turned into the statue.
One guest at the party is named Venus Red. A newbie at the whole “turning people into statues” thing, she witnesses going-on from the shadows and finds herself…strangely attracted to the proceedings.
Perhaps inevitably there comes a moment of seduction.
Why was this moment so special for Faustus? Well, I guess there is just this thing I have for a certain kind of moment of truth. It’s the moment where the beautiful girl decides to take make the leap — defying all canons of prudence and normality — into the great erotic beyond. I guess it shows up over and over in my own writing.
(Lots like I put in a little sneak preview of my own for Apsinthion Protocol there…) Of course, Drake managed to top himself with a special moment for Faustus at the end of the forthcoming issue.
What is it? Well, I’m not giving it away — you need to drop by starting on May 1 and see.
I wish everyone would write and publish their own version of A Thaumatophile Manifesto. Things like that show the world that we kinksters are for real. We have stories and inner lives. We have become what we have learned ourselves to be and we feel neither shame nor fear at what we are. And they reach out to people who can be our friends: as that most excellent blogger Furrygirl once put it: “Fetishy porn is a tool for change. For reals! It gives the people not in urban kink bubbles a chance to see that other people are like them.” My own experience of being interviewed at Atrocidades.net a little while back gave me an idea to try eliciting other folks’ stories but setting up interviews of my own. I was very pleased to be able to do one of my own with mind-control comics creator Dr. Robo last month. And this month I had the singular honor of being to pose my nosy questions to an artist I’ve long admired (and occasionally featured), whose commitment to a mad science-related A.S.F.R. fetish is a true wonder to behold.
This is Drake of Medusariffic, the 3D comics artist (primarily: he started with live-action alters and recently has been moving into animations and small flash games) behind Medusariffic. He took my interview questions and really ran with them, and the world is in for a treat as a result: a whole issue of Medusariffic’s online comic, starring its pulchritudinous cast and illustrating a Drake-in-his-own-words interview. Right on the first page Drake shows both that he knows how to deploy the tropes while writing zippy lines.
(Click for larger.) The whole thing will go up on May 1, but I’ll offer a few teasers up until then.
Since this April has marked Moira Weir’s extended introduction to Howard the tentacle beast, I think it’s fair to declare that April is Tentacles Month here at Erotic Mad Science. Since I would not want the 3D art community to feel that only traditional artists were getting in on the fun, I commissioned KristinF to create a tentacle fantasia, an imagined happening in the South Seas whence Howard presumably comes.
Kristin was commissioned to go wild. She did.
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Tentacle Fantasia by KristinF and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
The image reproduced in blog size cannot possibly do justice to the amount of fetishy detail that Kristin has worked in here, so by all means please click though to see the large image. It looks like an underwater expedition gone horribly wrong. Or horribly right. It depends on your perspective. I must note, however, that the fearsome shark in the upper-right hand part of the illustration has come to his own conclusion and appears to be fleeing the whole happening in terror.
You’ll never be disappointed asking Kristin to go wild.
Following last chapter’s excellent practice, Lon did a pinup of Moira.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Moira Pinup written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
And that concludes The Apsinthion Protocol, Chapter Two. Stay tuned for Chapter Three, coming in May. In the meantime, if you want this chapter in different formats, they are available as torrents. For really high-quality versions of the images that you can readily read in with comic-book reader software, you can get a CBZ version:
For slightly lower-quality images in an easily accessible version you can get the whole things as a PDF file:
And if you want to try the experimental e-book version, you can try the .mobi file:
Happy reading!
…and in the light of day it becomes evident that there are secrets.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Page Twenty-four written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
There’s always a morning after…
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Page Twenty-Three written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
In the aftermath of her encounter, Moira has a confession to make.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Page Twenty-Two written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Lon’s rendering of the Victorian-era librarian evokes for me one of my favorite DeviantArt illustrations.
Great pleasures always deserve to be relived in memory…something that’s easier in the era of cheap, high-definition video.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Page Twenty-One written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
True to SCIENCE, Corwin and Anwei continue their observations.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Two, Page Twenty written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)