Squick or Squee 2012 I: Gorgon’s Plaything

In the corner of the Northern Hemisphere that I inhabit leaves are turning and spooky things are walking about at night, and we all know what that means here at Erotic Mad Science. Yes it’s Squick or Squee Week, and the third annual one, too.

For those of you who weren’t around for the first two Squick or Squee Weeks, the idea is something like this: in the week before Halloween, I run a series of illustrations that have the dual properties of being erotic (at least to some viewers) and at the same time perhaps a bit frightening or repulsive as well.

This year is a little different from past years, in that Squick or Squee week is going to be all bespoke, that is, consist entirely of images which I specifically commissioned from artists who have done great work here at Erotic Mad Science before. The commissions were deliberately left very broad. Artists were given the concept of Squick or Squee week (and their fees, of course) and set loose to produce whatever their imaginations came up with. I am pleased with the outcomes and hope you will be, too.

Who better for our first entry of the week than our Tales of Gnosis College creator Lon Ryden, whose Squick or Squee week entry should please all of you A.S.F.R. fans out there. It’s called Gorgon’s Plaything.

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Gorgon’s Plaything: Squick or Squee Entry 2012 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.)

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty-Two

Strangeway’s meeting is with an important bureaucratic someone.

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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty-Two 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.)

Although it didn’t strike me in his previous appearances in Chapter Two, here the figure of “the Director” (as he is identified in the script sort of reminds me of someone.

Image found at Addicting Info.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty-One

Strangeways is off to his appointment, Maureen close in tow.

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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty-One 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.)

Lon’s single-panel page here reminds me of a title sequence that made a deep impression on me as a kid.

Youtube link here.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty

Maureen has witnessed something ugly, and responds appropriately.

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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty 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 scary basement setting for the quantum chamber Lon created here does have a spooky abandoned hospital feel.

Whenever I see one of these I wonder at what horrors went on there before the site was abandoned. Image source here.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Nineteen

One of the squickiest pages in Tales of Gnosis College history.

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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page One 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.)

A nasty image, but one that has lurked in my subconscious ever since, as a young child, I saw a magician do a stage illusion of cutting a pretty girl in half.

And I wondered to myself “What if it’s real?” Image source Freaking News.

Invisible Girl: Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Eighteen

Indeed, time does seem to be running out for poor Colleen.

Colleen’s plaintive tune suggests she knows her fate. A hint (for those of you who don’t recognize it right away) as to its origins.

Othello and Desdemona by Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875)

Evidence that, even given her likely-wretched past, Colleen picked up some interesting bits of education on the way to where she is. Image source Wikipedia.