Bait: New version in a slider

A fair maiden is drawn to her doom in the deep.

An ominous sunrise over the South Seas.

The RV Seagoon churns through uncertain seas on a weird mission.

Eliza Fanshaw loves one thing more than any other, and that is sex!

The Scelleratini brothers voyage to the south seas to film an obscene pagan rite.

A bare beautiful bride leaps into the mysterious depths.

The comely native girl sacrifices herself to a monster of the sea!

The film of maiden sacrifice outrages all Europe and is banned.

An ancient survivor reveals the secret of the obscene ritual.

The thought of the highest erotic experience arouses Eliza Fanshaw.

Eliza Fanshaw defeats fear of death with philosophy.

U.S. military imperialism removes the people of Motofupo from their island.

A U.S. Navy base means pretty U.S. Navy nurses.

The Navy arranged swimming time for sexy nurses.

The disappearance of pretty nurses was covered up by the Navy.

Barron Petrobux had a beautiful wife and daughter and more money than was good for him.

Barron Petrobux Jr. stalks where he ought not to with his movie camera.

Rich racist Texans doing their thing on a South Seas cruise.

The tentacle monster attacks!

Phoebe is stripped naked by the tentacle monster.

Panic on the yacht!

Phoebe is molested by the tentacle monster.

A last gasp for Phoebe.

Barron Jr. seems to have actually enjoyed what happened to his sister.

Captain MacMurdie explains a mistake made by the Navy

Perhaps science can do something about the tentacle monster.

Technology marches on in the fight against the tentacle monster.

To catch the sea monster, you need bait.

Daphne Bosselseg wants to be a part of science history.

A short and glorious life, or a long and undistinguished one?

Surprisingly, many women have an interest in being a meal for the tentacle creature.

There's always a smooth-talking lawyer to explain everything.

A first encounter with the tentacles.

The two "winners" of the contest to be bait meet each other.

Daphne wishes to save little children, Eliza, cute animals.

Naturally, there's an academic who's repulsed at the idea of the experiment.

Claudia Honeywood makes very smart robots.

We encounter Eliza's naked mind.

Hiram Worthinglock's miraculous exploding capsule.

A woman is eaten, is digested, explodes.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to be underwater for hours without having to surface for breath?

Eliza loves being underwater; Daphne remains resolute.

The long-awaited departure for the South Seas.

Turpentine sets out to catch his tentacle beast.

A moment for a great decision.

The suspenseful flip of the coin.

Eliza is the one chosen.

It is the ride of a lifetime, and Eliza is determined to take it.

Eliza goes out with a sexy striptease.

A pretty sexy last wave.

Naked Eliza makes her fateful dive.

Beautiful, naked, and calm in the ocean.

The tentacle creature moves in fast on Eliza.

Eliza is deep into tentacle sex, and soon into the creature.

Farewell, Eliza.

But the experiment goes badly.

Time for Daphne to make the sacrifice.

When men sacrifice themselves, it's called heroism.

Daphne does decision theory.

An embrace and a descent.

Out there in the waters, something is going wrong.

Daphne explodes at the wrong time.

Someone always has evil ideas about sacrificing someone else.

Claudia righteously storms out.

Turpentine attempts to persuade the angry Claudia.

What about science? Don't you love science?

When all else fails, go on television.

Careers are only for team players.

Claudia goes out in an appropriately bad mood.

Who would not hesitate at this moment?

Claudia makes the fateful leap.

The way Claudia is dressed is sort of ridiculous, considering the occasion.

What a good-looking soon-to-be-former scientist!

And in spite of the circumstances, the sex is great.

A fearful moment, one of Claudia's last.

And down Claudia goes, no doubt a delicious meal.

Tentacle beast ahoy!

Tentacle beast captive!

Moralists are going to moralize, no matter whom they hurt or how much.

Woulds't thou learn the secrets of the sea?

Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulhu" quoted.

Reach out to the tentacle beast.

The Daughters of Leos, sacrificed to save Athens.

A call to honor sacrifice.

Tentacle beast's new home.

Heaven help you, Turpentine, if that tentacle monster ever escapes.

Pretty girl puts on a show.

The pretty girl seems well in control of the monster.

Anyone would be enthusiastic about this show.

Chiba Moe explains her job.

And then there are some special shows.

And for Chiba, the tentacle sex is awe-inspiring

The monster has been throttled; no more eating girls for him.

Chiba feels sorry for the poor hungry tentacle monster.

What an amazing application of compassion!

Inevitably, the bizarre offer arrives.

And so, Chiba dives in.

I guess this is what you might call really unsafe sex

Farewell, Chiba Moe. Your compassion was truly an extraordinary thing.

And at the bottom of it all, a rich man's sexual fetish.

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I am in the process of rebuilding much of the publication infrastructure around my graphic novella Bait in preparation for its appearance in a number of foreign-language editions. The long-page version of the comic has been moved here to make way for a a new master index page. In addition to appearing on long pages, the comic will also be made available in sliders, such as the one above. You can use the arrows to page forward or back.

In addition to the new versions and sliders, there are some other additional publication resources:

Download the comic as a CBZ archive. (Pages are high-resolution PNG files, archive size is about 381 MB.)
Download this comic as a PDF file. (Single high-resolution PDF document, file size is about 234 MB.)
A page of associated artwork for Bait
Download the art archive. (14 high-resolution images in a ZIP archive, about 54 MB.)

We have here an exciting new publication venture, one which I hope will both entertain and instruct all involved.