Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-Two

Injection indeed.

Aloysius uses a syringe to impregnate Kitty.

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Could be much worse, folks. The trope has played in other ways.

Publicity poster from Inseminoid (1981). Image found at the tumblr Horror Movie Posters.

Maureen enters a contest

A ComicCon a few weeks ago, artist SelkieSium participated in a portfolio review and received the following comment on a Batgirl image.

Her breasts are much too small and do not have the lift that superhero women should have. Her jawline is fat and her neck much too long. The style of her hair is clunky and does not flow in a sense that a super human would. Her hips, waist and thighs are too big and she honestly looks fat. No one is going to want to read a comic with a fat female protagonist. I honestly recommend looking at issues of Sport’s [sic] Illustrated to get the right anatomy. Those women are the peak of human perfection, and that is what we want in this industry.

Extended comment on such a remark dignifies it more than it deserves, but over at DeviantArt at least other artist, Kxhara, has come up with a creative response: a drawing contest.

Based on a recent submission to Eschergirls, I am hosting a contest!

– Draw or write a fat female superhero who defies the “industry standard” body conventions

– “Olympian” athletic musculature is also allowed, the point is to escape the typical stick-with-boobs body type

– Also accepting redesigns of existing superheroines with more proportional, realistic bodies (Powergirl with the body of a female weightlifter, etc)

You can follow this link for full details. The important thing here is that Lon was on the job, and created his own entry for the contest, based on the closest thing we have to a qualifying superheroine in the Gnosis College fictional universe, the zaftig and resourceful Maureen Creel. (The characters in the background are newly designed inmates of the State Home for Wayward Girls, who will be important in the upcoming volume of Tales of Gnosis College.

The contest runs into September, and you can see all the entires so far here. So head on over and show our girl some love.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty-One

Naturally Aloysius solution means someone getting an injection

Aloysius has a soluton...and he's going to inject it into Kitty.

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I suppose it was really just a matter of time before Aloysius went all Herbert West on us.

Herbert West image found at the tumblr Brain Trash.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Twenty

Mad science is about finding solutions.

Aloysius has an idea about saving Tricia

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Do you know what pops up when you first Google image search “erotic matrix?” This image:

Lily Kwan of the Naked News. On some skeezy porn site? No. On Wikimedia Commons.

Great Wrigglin’ Cthulhu I love the Internet.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Nineteen

Even worse than you thought at first, Tricia.

Tricia gets bad news while floating naked in a virtual ocean.

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What the heck…another oceanic image — this time one I find appealingly weird.

Original image source the tumblr Mirror, Mask, and Camera.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Eighteen

Tricia is still embodied, if only in her own mind.

Tricia floats in a virtual world, naked and orgasmic.

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This “floating” effect makes for one of my favorite visual tropes. If you look over at the new image site in the Erotic Mad Science network called hedonix.org you will find a tag devoted to it — oceanic. Here is a favorite example:

Found originally at the tumblr noonesnemesis.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Seventeen

Ever experienced something that you thought was had to be a nightmare, but was in fact real?

Aloysius questions the liquid Tricia.

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A girl in a beaker on one’s desk is an old pulp trope. A more literal example of it:

Image found at one of my favorite tumblrs, Fifi-Feeling is First.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Sixteen

Aloysius does his desperate best.

Aloysius does his best to save the remains of liquid Tricia.

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Kitty’s lamentable condition has perhaps been in the back of my mind since I had the pleasure of perusing a book by Jane and Michael Stern called The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, which, perhaps predictably, has an article on “Enormous Breasts.” Said article devotes an entire page to a photograph of Chesty Morgan, an exotic dancer and star of such movies as Deadly Weapons (1974) and Double Agent 73. Here’s an alternative representation of Chesty.

Image found at Insomnia Notebook. As we can see Kitty has surpassed even Chesty.