Beware the Asylum represents my attempt to write a “silent” graphic novella. The version presented here contains “captions” that did not appear in the original published edition. It has been illustrated by Rafael Suzarte.
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Young lovers Bobby and Karen stroll in the moonlight behind Euphoric State Lunatic Asylum.
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On a moonlit night, Bobby and Karen get out of Bobby’s Chevrolet Chevelle SS by the spooky old asylum.
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The full moon glows behind the looming dome of the abandoned insane asylum.
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Bobby and Karen break in where they are forbidden to go.
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How many tormented souls must have passed through this entranceway!
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The insane asylum is once-magnificent civic architecture now falling into ruin.
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Bobby has amorous plans for Karen, but what is that noise?
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Sucked up into the bowels of the asylum!
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Karen is transported, deposited, and seized by a mechanical grabber.
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The grabbers begin to strip Karen.
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The menacing grabbers are thorough in their work.
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Helpless Karen is sprayed with hot water and soap.
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The ecstasy of the sponge.
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Seldom has a hair dryer seemed so dark and menacing.
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Karen is sucked up and transported again.
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Meanwhile, Zhelzor the robot brings Bobby face-to-face with the sinister Dr. Vragov.
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Naked and shamed Karen is imprisoned in a transparent tube.
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Bobby makes one pitiable attempt at contact, and then there is a blinding white flash of radiation.
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Karen’s flesh is rendered into something like transparent green gelatin, making her skeleton visible. A blue flash.
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Karen is all transparent green goo. A red flash.
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To Bobby’s horror, Karen is but a green puddle, promptly sucked up.
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Bobby seizes a makeshift weapon and charges at Dr. Vragov.
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“Do you see this tube, young man? Everything your girlfriend was, her form, her personality, her memories, are all preserved herein.”
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“Perhaps I could reconstitute her. Or I could just pour her down this drain. What do you think I should do?”
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On an urban street, Bobby sits in his Chevelle, about to commit a crime in hopes of recovering his girlfriend.
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Darkness prevails. Beware the Asylum, Part II.
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Shotgun in hand, Bobby sets off for a Chinese herbal medicine shop.
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Bobby confronts the herbalist, his wife, and some terrified customers.
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“I demand this herb.” “I have no idea…” BOOM! “Heard of it now?”
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Faced with such violence, the herbalist gives in.
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Bobby makes a break for it, but this Chinatown neighborhood has protectors of its own.
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Lam and Chow pursue Bobby by motorcycle, and Lam is not shy about gunplay.
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A close call and a spray of glass as Lam’s .45-caliber bullet nearly hits Bobby.
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Watch out for that garbage truck! Bobby swerves and misses it.
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Lam and Chow are not lucky with the truck. May what is left of them rest in peace.
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Bobby’s Chevelle goes head-on into a newsstand.
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Memories of the journalism of 1975 lie scattered about as Bobby flees down into the subway from approaching police.
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Bobby hops the turnstile with the cops in hot pursuit.
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Bobby staggers toward an approaching subway train.
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Bobby barely makes his train, leaving the cops behind.
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The box from the herbalist – the precious box – Bobby still has it.
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The subway in those days was a wild place, and some curious characters regard Bobby curiously.
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His Chevelle wrecked, Bobby has to hitch a ride with a helpful contractor back to the asylum.
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Here is the exchange proposed, the precious box for the precious test tube.
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But Dr. Vragov double-crosses Bobby. Poor Bobby.
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Dr. Vragov makes the contents of the box into something, which he pipes into a radio-controlled model B-29.
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Dr. Vragov’s model airplane files over Pleasant Valley High School.
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The airplane spreads a chemical trail over the innocent, unsuspecting students.
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In the middle of a boring English class, Brenda senses something…delicious.
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In physical education, Nancy is distracted by something…beguiling. Watch out for that ball, Nancy!
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Cheerleader Pamela is so overcome by something in the air so…seductive that she drops her books.
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Compared with whatever Sandra now detects, school lunch is just not very…alluring.
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Something mysterious and feminine is forming in the tube. Beware the Asylum, Part III.
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Brenda bicycles alone under an ominous sky to the asylum.
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Billy and Nancy head out to the asylum in Billy’s tricked-out van.
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Mike and Pamela head out to the asylum on a motorcycle. Cool bike, Mike! Sandra and Charlie look almost as good in Charlie’s 1972 Dodge Charger.
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Down in a seclusions corridor, Billy gets zapped by a death ray, while Nancy is sucked up into the bowels of the asylum.
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Zhelezor has grabbed Mike while Pamela fights not to be sucked up.
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“Why is this room so clean,” thinks Pamela to herself, not noticing her boyfriend Charlie being throttled behind her.
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The machines grab and strip poor Sandra.
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Red-eyed Zhelezor is in hot pursuit of Brenda in an asylum corridor.
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Brenda finds what she thinks is safety when she passes through a doorway too small for Zhelezor the robot, but what is this light?
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It’s the spotlight Brenda. You’re on stage, and your act is now beginning.
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The mechanical grabbers go to work on the girls.
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Nancy, Pamela, and Sandra are all forcibly washed.
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Brenda stands, at once washed and martyred.
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Pamela is whipped through the asylum’s network of pneumatic tubes.
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Nancy, Pamela, Sandra, and Brenda all reduced from girls to goo.
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The community of Pleasant Valley is outraged by the disappearances of its children, and the police have no answers.
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Dr. Vragov goes to work, processing green girl goo into a mysterious white unguent.
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Outside the asylum, an alert motorcycle cop notes something special about the license plate on an abandoned van.
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A police SWAT team musters and swings into action at the asylum.
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But the asylum is clean. There is nothing to be found, save a scrap of what once might have been a girl’s dress.
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In a posh club in London, Dr. Vragov and some wealthy business associates conclude a deal of cash for white unguent.
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In a luxurious bathroom, a middle-aged woman applies some of the white unguent.
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The white unguent dissolves, and the middle-aged woman in enveloped in bubbles.
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Where there had been a woman in middle age before, there is now a radiantly beautiful younger woman.
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On a bright morning outside a lovely Tuscan villa, Dr. Vragov enjoys a modest breakfast.
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Dr. Vragov sips his coffee and enjoys the panorama of the city of Florence below.
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Dr. Vragov produces a flask of green liquid, and takes it to his basement laboratory and performs feats of chemistry thereupon.
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Dr. Vragov pours the processed liquid into a mysterious tube apparatus.
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Within the tube there are at first bubbles, and then something womanly takes shape.
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A naked catgirl, looking something like Karen once looked, steps forth from the tube.
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Dr. Vragov bells his new catgirl and gives her some milk. She must be hungry!
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A little catgirl fanservice.
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Dr. Vragov’s catgirl nestles on his lap. I can almost hear her purring.
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 Part II |
 Part III |
This archive contains Beware the Asylum, a webcomic commissioned and written by Iago Faustus (“Faustus,” a pseudonym) and illustrated by by Rafael Suzarte (“Suzarte”), as well as a sets of page captions written by Faustus and translated into various languages.
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Suzarte maintains a professional website at https://suzarte1.portfoliobox.net/, and can be contacted via this website