The second (and quietest) of the Waywards, Jewell.
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Jewell Character Design for Tales of Gnosis College, a webcomic 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 is one thing that is almost always cheering.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Thirty 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 for those of you who don’t like this sort of thing…kittehs!
There, now everyone can be happy. Image found at The Sky Garden of Stars.
Lon designed no fewer than six young women inmates of the State Home for Wayward Girls. Let’s face it, even standing on its own the Women in Prison genre is a rich field for exploitation, to say nothing of when it collides with mad science, so at least six seems about right. (I refer to them collectively as the Waywards, which might also be a good name for band.) Here is the first of them, Colleen.
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Colleen Character Design for Tales of Gnosis College, a webcomic 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.)
Discussion over coffee.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Nine 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.)
I hope Phil Foglio can forgive me for tossing an itty-bitty tribute to his work into Panel Five of this page.
The student café where Willie and Maureen are caffeinating up as the Gadget, and I guess it’s that name that gave Lon the idea to toss in that gear dingus as a design feature on the outside. I like it. I makes me think that somewhere in the large complex labeled “Student Union” on the map of Gnosis College that there are even more steampunky internal structures.
Found at the tumblr Steampunk Café.
The second of our Invisible Girl, Heroine designs, an operative of a sinister conspiracy running operations at the State Home for Wayward Girls, Agent Ulrich.
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Agent Ulrich Character Design for Tales of Gnosis College, a webcomic 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.)
A central theme of the Tales of Gnosis College is that expanding mad-science enterprises require new recruits.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Eight 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.)
Hypnosis in the service of erotic mad science is a fun theme that has been worked with great dedication by my friend Dr. Robo and his Metrobay Comix group of creators. They have an entire work, Mesmerella, which is right on point. A teaser therefrom:
(Image used here by kind permission of Dr. Robo.) Tempted? Then I urge you to check their work out further by visiting their Wiki and their DeviantArt site. You’ll be glad you did. Just don’t lose control of your mind — unless, of course, you want to lose control of your mind…
Progress in Research will be posting out here through 6 August 2012, a minor departure from our customary practice of concluding a chapter on or before the month-end. We’re changing up slightly just because with various obligations that Lon and I have over the summer it makes sense to keep posting at a relaxed pace of no more than one page per day; furthermore the last chapter of Progress in Research is slightly long and the first of the next volume, Invisible Girl, Heroine, is slightly short, so this pace will enable us to keep our schedule fairly straight by the end of August.
In the meantime, though, don’t fear, as there’s bonus content coming. Over the several days I shall be posting out a series of character designs Lon did for Invisible Girl, Heroine, in hopes of pleasing all you readers and perhaps interesting you in the narrative in which they will be taking part.
The first of these comes today, Warden Ridgeway, the stern-looking chief of the State Home for Wayward Girls, a carceral institution located just out side of Pleasant Prairie, in which some sinister goings-on will be, well, going on.
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Warden Ridgeway Character Design for Tales of Gnosis College, a webcomic 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.)
Some times are just not good for dropping in.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Seven 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.)
But even if these students don’t want to talk, I’ll bet others will.
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A happy ending for most, if a perplexing one for some.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Six 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.)
It all makes one want to stand up and cheer.
Image found at Old Erotic Art.
College. An opportunity for personal growth.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Five 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.)
Girl-on-girl in unusual places is, of course, a very well=explored theme.
Another image found at Grafik.