Tumblr favorite #2251: Ladies World Domination Society

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My original tumblr post was here. This illustration, Retropolis Ladies’ World Domination Society by Bradley W. Schenck was first posted on tumblr by supervillainseekingminions who added the comment “The wickedly wondrous works of Bradley W. Schenck! You will find so much more of his magnificent maniacal imaginings on his Deviant Art page! I do recommend you visit it…Bradley W. Schenck, you may continue!” It comes to us via cr333333p.

Tumblr favorite #2249: Gotta get up and go to work

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My original tumblr post was here. This image is Gotta Get Up and Go to Work by Bradley W. Schenck, who comments thus on his own work:

Retropolis offers a wide variety of accommodations to the tourist or traveler: from five star suites in the floating Galacticon hotel, through the more utilitarian, blastproof rooms made available to the conventioneers of The Society of Demented Research Technicians – and finally, to these modern and streamlined sleeping tubes at hotels like downtown’s “Tubular Belles”.

Sleek and affordable, these tubes bathe the sleeper in a sonic shower that cleans both sleeper and clothing. Visitors awake refreshed and ready for a new tomorrow – helped along by the hot, strong coffee that tops off the hotel’s complimentary breakfast.

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This all happened because of a series of blog posts at the Posthuman Blues blog – [link] … there, for example.

Though I’d never spent a lot of time thinking about Women In Tubes – and really, I haven’t, at least not since the seventies – once I did think about them, I realized that they’re all over the covers of pulp science fiction magazines from the Golden Age of, well, pulp science fiction magazines.

And I started to feel like less of a man because I’d never put women in tubes into my own pictures. I mean, obviously, it’s fundamental, right?

But it’s not enough to just stick a women in a tube. Not EVEN in the seventies. What the heck are they doing in there? How did they get into a freaking tube, in the first place? It can’t be like that ship in a bottle thing: that’s disgusting. How do they get out? And, as always, who stands to benefit from all these women in tubes?

So I’ve tried to answer these questions, and in the act I also made the tubes coeducational. Because that’s how I roll.

the title’s from a song of 1933, by Olive Levine & Beany Miller. Because that’s ALSO how I roll.

In addition to his DeviantArt site, Bradley W. Schenck maintains an interactive story site, Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.