Very early (1933 — note the National Recovery Administration eagle ensign on the cover) variant on the tube-girl meme. Neither mad science nor meant literally in this context (I think) but still possibly something that inspired the imaginations of coming pulp artists.
Found at Drake’s Way.
The hunt continues into the darkened corridors of Feynman Hall.
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The theme of Artemis seems appropriate.
Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919), Diana as huntress (1867)
It seems worth noting that Renoir’s Diana, presented here as an ideal female type, has a body-type much more like that of Maureen than is typical for “ideals” of today.
Maureen gets a few aural slices of life at Gnosis College before getting on the trail of her quarry.
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Maureen manifests Diana the Huntress…
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), Diana the Huntress
…only with a shotgun microphone rather than a bow.
The aftermath
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It’s tricky to find a really good image for something as dramatic as this, but I shall note that if you go to Goolge and do an image search on “anal sex Jesus” you can come up with some very curious artifacts, like this one, which some alert person photographed and which does seem thematically apropos.
No, I don’t know how to interpret this either, really, but it can be found at Llama Republic.
The climax of a spiritual experience.
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I googled “fucked up church signs” looking for pendant pictures for these posts and Jumping Jehosephat did I find lots. There might be one for every occasion. At least, there certainly is one for this one.
Found here.
Lola clearly takes her salvation seriously, as well she should, for what are our earthly lives but the tiniest speck against the vast ocean of eternity?
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I have it on good authority from at least one community of religious believers that Lola is doing it the right way.
Found at Geek Girl Smash.
Maureen rigs up homebrew surveillance.
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I don’t know exactly what could accompany an image like this, so I’ll fall back on that old standby, the demotivator.
Found
In the advance of knowledge, about anything, subtlety will beat thuggery just about every time.
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An appropriate illustration would seem to be the famous Flammarion engraving.
Seek and ye shall find.
Aloysius discovers a mess.
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There are always thugs more than happy to make a mess of things in the sacred name of National Security, and strangely they don’t seem to differ all that much from regime to regime.
George Grosz (1893-1959), A Writer Is He? 1934 (or 1944)
Image found here.
It is now Aloysius’s turn to go investigating.
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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!,