And so a fateful deal is sealed.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page Twenty-Two 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.)
Let’s admire our four heroines, everyone.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page Twenty-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.)
Bridget indulges orientalist fantasies.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page 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.)
I have a feeling these women are going to find their respective coffees very stimulating.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page Sixteen 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.)
We see a typical appeal to student idealism.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page Fifteen 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.)
Everyone’s a critic, but at least some critics come with useful advice.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Page Eight 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.)
I think Lon really had a blast with this sequence.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, 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.)
And now it is the first of October, and as promised we have a new set of adventures with a new set of Gnosis College characters. We begin Tales of Gnosis College Volume II: Study Abroad. Lon has provided an appropriate (and immensely detailed) cover for the first issue.
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Study Abroad: Chapter One, Cover 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.)
You may recall the Study Abroad character Bridget O’Brian from her fetching character designs by Lon Ryden published earlier this week. And you might also recall Argentine artist Dark Vanessa, who did a short manga for me back in January called “Maureen’s Re-engineering.” Figuring two good things might go together, I commissioned Vanessa to provide a sneak peak on the action in Bridget’s story in Study Abroad.
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Bridget O’Brian: Dance for Me by Dark Vanessa and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Don’t you want to know how comely Bridget got to this point? You’ll have to read the story, starting in October, to find out…
The Tales of Gnosis College only begin with The Apsinthion Protocol, and while those later stories are reaching their conclusion here, Lon and I are already hard at work on the next set, a four-story anthology called Study Abroad. To whet your appetites for those stories, I’m presenting some preview materials, including some of Lon’s rather luscious character design work.
Here we have Bridget O’Brian, a self-described “nice Irish Catholic girl” who finds herself in dressed in a way the nice nuns at her parochial high school might have looked askance at.
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Bridget O’Brian Character Design 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.)
A bit more of Bridget coming early next week!