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Progress in Research: Chapter One, Page Five

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May 062012
 

It is now Aloysius’s turn to go investigating.

"I'm not easy but I hope you're hard."

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“I’m not easy but I hope you’re hard” is a slogan Lon improvised for the panel. I rather like it. If there’s ever a Gnosis College store, I hope that we sell a t-shirt with it.

Aloysius’s interlocutor and her demeanor remind me for some reason of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s (1828-1882) Lady Lilith (1867) for some reason.

Perhaps we could have a shirt with both the slogan and Lady Lilith!,

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Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Four

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May 052012
 

Maureen goes in search of cooler tools.

Maureen goes a-looking for a shotgun microphone.

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It reflects a curious shift in culture, that whereas the word “passion” in ordinary English speech suggests something hot and sexy (“Dick and Jane were burning with passion for one another”) or at least enjoyably engaging (“Fred has a great passion for model trains”) the Latin noun from which it is derived, passio actually means suffering. Hence the meaning of “the passion of Christ.” It did not mean his interest in either Jane or model trains.

The forces of justice finally catch up with a notorious troublemaker

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Arrest of Christ

I fear I have little to add on the matter of the Passion of Christ, except for an apocryphal story about Oscar Wilde. Wilde was given for his Greek examination at Magdalen College the exercise of translating viva voce from the Passion according to St. Matthew. As Wilde was a brilliant classisist he was able to translate with great ease and fluency, so much so that a few verses in he was halted by his examiners.

“Thank you, Mr. Wilde. That is quite sufficient.”

“Oh please, do let me go on,” begged Wilde. “I want to see how it ends.”

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Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Three

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May 042012
 

Time passes slowly for Aloysius.Time pases slowly for Aloysius waiting for a date who never shows.

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The presence of a moving clock indicates the passing of time, here just in the narrative. But it’s worth remembering that timepieces are also artistic reminders of mortality, which seems especially appropriate here. Hourglasses are common in memento mori, and candles burning down can also serve that allegorical function.

Georges de la Tour (1593-1652), The Penitent Magdalene (1625-1650)

The themes all swirl around, they do.

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Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page Two

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May 032012
 

Aloysius sits down to wait something he has long anticipated.

A spectre is haunting Aloysius Kim, the spectre of Moira!

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The image of a vaporous woman that haunts has its own role in art history.

A spooky image of a haunting female

Found here. Perhaps, given what we know actually happened to Moira, this image might be more literal than allegorical!

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Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Page One

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May 022012
 

Aloysius doesn’t understand the meaning of this news at first.

Aloysius peruses the news and drinks coffee

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I guess I sort of miss the newspaper, together with the plot-moving device of the headline, however much of a cliché it might have been Remember?

And you can always find many fine examples of the trope:

Found here. I am nostalgic.

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Progress in Research: Chapter Three, Cover

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May 012012
 

Aloysius is our cover boy for this chapter.

Aloysius as St. Sebastian

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Although the theme here is mad science, the visual inspiration comes from a far more ancient source.

Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506), St. Sebastian c. 1480

There is always an appeal from the ancient source.

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Chibi Maureen and Publication editions

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Apr 302012
 

As Lon’s splendid pinup came a little to early in the month to accompany this month’s announcement of the publication of collected editions, we have a change of pace in bespoke art for the announcement.  I present Chibi Maureen, with our heroine represented chibi style by artist and professional dominatrix Nic Buxom, whose engaging webcomic about, well, being a professional dominatrix I encourage you to check out.

Maaureen Creel preented in chibi style and peering through a window

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And as it’s the end of the month, we now naturally make available collected editions of Progress in Research, Chapter Two. We have our usual direct downloadable versions in Comic Book Archive, PDF, and .mobi e-book formats:

And for those you who prefer torrents, we have ‘em. The CBZ version:

Portable Document Format:

And .mobi e-book:

And starting tomorrow, we shall begin Chapter Three.

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Cassandra’s Self-Sacrifice, Page Seven

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Apr 292012
 

When life gives you mad science lemons, make mad science lemonade.

Where some scientsts see disaster, others see opportunity.

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Cassandra’s Self-Sacrifice, Page Six

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Apr 292012
 

Cassandra?

Cassandra is sucked in and disappears

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Cassandra’s Self-Sacrifice, Page Five

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Apr 292012
 

Uh oh. Are you sure this is wise, Cassandra?

Cassandra makes contact with an underwater blob monster!

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