SAIC Macneil decides he has better things to do than look at a statue, even if it’s of a very hot model.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Five, Page Ten 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.)
Your Federal tax dollars are now at work, ladies and gentlemen.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Five, Page Seven 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.)
Officer Cleary might not know mad science, but he knows when things don’t add up.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Five, Page Six 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.)
…but it’s only just a statue, right?
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Five, Page Five 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.)
Whatever interests Edmund does have as an artist, they are not the same as Drake’s.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Four, Page Twenty-Seven 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.)
Be careful what you wish for!
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Four, Page Twenty-Six 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.)
After today my interview with Drake will speak for itself over at Medusariffic, but before I do that I just need to add a word of praise of his answer to one of my questions.
Yes. Absolutely the right answer. Just do it.
And to see just how it’s done, head over to Medusariffic starting tomorrow and download the whole interview issue (#60). That’s good reading.
A tease, and then a comment, and then another tease.
One of the questions I posed to Drake at Medusariffic was “what of you work was your proudest of?” He answered me thus:
Now it’s perhaps unfair of me to ask questions only without answering a few myself. My own question to me would be, “What among Drake’s work gave you most joy?”
I think the answer up until now would lie in a sequence that lies within a hundreds-of-panels-long sequence Drake created as a Halloween special a few years back. The premise behind the narrative is that a bunch of Drake’s cast of characters gets together for a big Halloween party. Everyone dresses up in costume and then runs about playing a very literal version of freeze tag — get caught and you get turned into the statue.
One guest at the party is named Venus Red. A newbie at the whole “turning people into statues” thing, she witnesses going-on from the shadows and finds herself…strangely attracted to the proceedings.
Perhaps inevitably there comes a moment of seduction.
Why was this moment so special for Faustus? Well, I guess there is just this thing I have for a certain kind of moment of truth. It’s the moment where the beautiful girl decides to take make the leap — defying all canons of prudence and normality — into the great erotic beyond. I guess it shows up over and over in my own writing.
(Lots like I put in a little sneak preview of my own for Apsinthion Protocol there…) Of course, Drake managed to top himself with a special moment for Faustus at the end of the forthcoming issue.
What is it? Well, I’m not giving it away — you need to drop by starting on May 1 and see.
I wish everyone would write and publish their own version of A Thaumatophile Manifesto. Things like that show the world that we kinksters are for real. We have stories and inner lives. We have become what we have learned ourselves to be and we feel neither shame nor fear at what we are. And they reach out to people who can be our friends: as that most excellent blogger Furrygirl once put it: “Fetishy porn is a tool for change. For reals! It gives the people not in urban kink bubbles a chance to see that other people are like them.” My own experience of being interviewed at Atrocidades.net a little while back gave me an idea to try eliciting other folks’ stories but setting up interviews of my own. I was very pleased to be able to do one of my own with mind-control comics creator Dr. Robo last month. And this month I had the singular honor of being to pose my nosy questions to an artist I’ve long admired (and occasionally featured), whose commitment to a mad science-related A.S.F.R. fetish is a true wonder to behold.
This is Drake of Medusariffic, the 3D comics artist (primarily: he started with live-action alters and recently has been moving into animations and small flash games) behind Medusariffic. He took my interview questions and really ran with them, and the world is in for a treat as a result: a whole issue of Medusariffic’s online comic, starring its pulchritudinous cast and illustrating a Drake-in-his-own-words interview. Right on the first page Drake shows both that he knows how to deploy the tropes while writing zippy lines.
(Click for larger.) The whole thing will go up on May 1, but I’ll offer a few teasers up until then.
Tireless and resourceful CG artist Niceman has rendered another key scene from The Apsinthion Protocol for me, here Ashley Madder’s sudden and unexpected transformation into a statue, right in front of the astonished Edmund. Through the magic of a double render, he manges to capture her right in the moment of transition between flesh and stone:
Ashley Transformation by by Niceman, commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (Click on the image for a larger version.)
In case you’ve fallen a little bit behind on your script-reading, the scene is this:
Ashley begins to tremble. A fine sheen of sweat appears. She begins to pant.
EDMUND
Ashely, are you feeling alright?
ASHLEY
No, no, stay back. Draw. I want to see you draw, and I want to feel the moment.
Edmund tries to draw. Ashley’s breathing quickens.
(Note: Through the following speech Ashley’s excitement continues to mount toward orgasm.)
ASHLEY
I want you to draw because I want you to put down how beautiful I am so that that can last forever, so that there can be more eyes, eyes throughout history. Eyes looking with longing and saying what pretty boobs, what wonderful nipples, what a lovely belly, what gorgeous legs, what a sweet cunt. Me. I want them to say that about me, not be a good girl. So many people, deprived of beauty to look at…I wasn to give it to them…I want them to have it… I want their eyes on me…I want my beauty to last forever…
EDMUND
Ashley!
ASHLEY
…forever…
EDMUND
(standing up, alarmed)
Ashley!
ASHLEY
…forever…beautiful forever…and…
(crying out orgasmicly)
…my…wish…is…coming…true!
SFX: Ashley’s flesh and hair turn to pinkish stone. Her hands freeze with her palms turned outward, her face is turned upwards, eyes close, lips parted, an expression of ecstasy.
Ashley’s last cry dies away as her transformation is complete.
Be careful what you wish for!