It would hardly be a complete chapter without a full-color, single-panel page of Michiko being imagined dissolving into liquid.

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Commencement: Chapter Five, 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.)