Things get a bit more disturbing still.
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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Two, Page Seventeen 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.)
The thought that the volunteers kept coming was one initial readers found…troubling. I guess there’s just something demonic in certain natures…
Attribution is to J. Koppay (1859-1927), “Lion & Woman with Devil Bat Wings Chained Together”
Found at what is (unsurprisingly) one of my favorite tumblrs, Ghastly Delights.
I think that, if this comic has an overarching message beyond “Mad science is hot!” it’s probably “If someone uses the word ‘theatrical’ as a noun, you should run.”
At some point I should scan and post the “she is forced to participate in bizarre theatricals” panel from The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist.