Monthly Archives: October 2014

Tumblr favorite #1086: Captain Science #5

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Captain Science #5: The Shark Pirates of Pisces

Seeing what I must presume is Captain Science’s boy sidekick so prominently featured on this cover, my recollection cannot help but drift back to a snippet of dialog from Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. A bunch of old comics hands is sitting in a diner in mid-century Manhattan, discussing a certain editor and his predilections.

Bob Powell leaned forward and lowered his voice. “I always thought he seemed a little bit–you know…”

“I have to agree with that,” said Gold. “He’s got that thing with the sidekicks. It’s like an obsession with him. Have you noticed that? He takes over a character, first thing he does, no matter what, he gives the guy a little pal. After he came back to the business, he was at Gold Star, doing the Phantom Stallion. All of a sudden the Stallion’s hanging around with this kid, what was his name? Buck something.”

“Buck Naked.”

“Buckskin. The kid gunslingher. Then he goes to Olympic, and what, now the Lumberjack has Timber Lad. The Rectifier gets Little Mack the Boy Enforcer.”

“The Rectifier, that already sounds a little bit–“

“Then he comes to Pharaoh, and all of a sudden its the Argonaut and Jason. The Lone Wolf and Cubby. Christ, he even gave a sidekick to the Lone Wolf.”

Squick or Squee 2014: Melt Lab Rescue

Today we continue with Niceman’s illustration of work in the people-melting laboratory, as a partly melted assistant drops from a vent to save the day. She makes good use of her new form, though one wonders what her life will be like from this point forward.

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Melt Lab Rescue commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and executed by Niceman is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Squick or Squee 2014: Liquification lab raid

Halloween approaches, and it’s time again for that annual Erotic Mad Science tradition known as Squick or Squee week, in which old Dr. Faustus reaches into his art commission budget and invites artists to produce work that might be…controversial.

Our first entry this year is from one of the first artists ever commissioned to make works here, 3D artist Niceman. Following a suggestion I put to him, Niceman has created a lab in which a scientist is working on people liquifying technology, perhaps as a way of putting people into a stable stasis for form deep space travel. Unfortunately, criminals have gotten wind of what she’s up to and resolved to steal the technology, in the process liquifying one of her assistants as a warning as to what might happen to her if she fails to be cooperative.

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The liquification process deserves a detail close-up, which Niceman has provided.

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Melt Lab and Melt Lab Detail commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and executed by Niceman are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)