We start with the sort of fun dorm-room visit that I didn’t really get enough of when I was in college.
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Progress in Research: Chapter Two, Page 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.)
Who’s in the background here?
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Progress in Research: Chapter One, 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.)
Picking locks is a metaphor with many layers.
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Progress in Research: Chapter One, Page Four 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.)
It’s good to have friends to talk with, especially when you feel down.
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A second character study from the forthcoming Progress in Research: Maureen Creel, a talented younger scientist consumed by yearning.
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Maureen Creel Character Study 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.)
Those of you who have read Invisible Girl, Heroine know that at the end Maureen Creel plays a Xanatos Gambit against mad scientist Strangeways, which involves the intersection of (1) Maureen’s invisibility tech, (2) Strangeways’s “golden membrane” sex machine, (3) the fiendish device known as a micromachine quantum resonator and (4) a dangerously-powerful aphrodisiac. (I hope this summary will encourage those of you who haven’t yet read Invisible Girl, Heroine to at least consider doing so.) The gambit plays out with the following exchange:
MAUREEN
Well I am right on the edge of the biggest fecking orgasm I will ever have…uh…uh…and I can’t hold back much more…uh…so let’s find out just how much power I have..uh.uuh..whether its true that radius…increases monotonically with the force of the orgasm. …ah..ah…ah…
CLOSE-UP – STRANGEWAYS’S FACE
Stgrangeways’s face is grinning broadly, but suddenly shifts to a horrified expression.
STRANGEWAYS
No! Stop! Stop the ma…
Well now you don’t have to just imagine the scene, because 3D artist KristinF, whose work has been featured here recently, has rendered a version of it for you, right at the critical moment.
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Maureen in the Machine by KristinF and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
And I must say I really like what’s been done here, not just with the mad-lab and the gilding, but with the facial expressions: Maureen on the point of ecstasy, and Strangeways at the point of realizing that something is about to go very, very wrong.
I hope to see more of this in the future, and hope you all do as well.
The key to technological success is persistence. Maureen knows this.
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Maureen’s Reverse Engineering: Page Two by Dark Vanessa and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
And from there, it’s off to wild adventures for Maureen…
Time for another short comic of Gnosis material, in this case taken from the beginning of Invisible Girl, Heroine and illustrated by Argentine artist Dark Vanessa, who in addition to producing the sort of fetching manga we see below does some gorgeous pin-up work which you can see at DeviantArt.
The story — if you recall — begins in an earlier Gnosis College parascript Progress in Research, in which technologist girl Maureen Creel unearths the fact that a Gnosis physics professor has invented an invisibility technology, which he is abusing in an obvious way.
At the start of Invisible Girl, Heroine, Maureen takes it upon herself to re-create the prof’s technology for her own use. I chose it as a short subject to develop into a micro-comic for two reasons: (1) in itself it’s about as simple a story as can be told: protragonist encounters obstacles but overcomes them in the end and (2) it’s sort of humorous, though obviously YMMV.
The manga:
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Maureen’s Reverse Engineering: Page One by Dark Vanessa and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Better luck next page, Maureen!
Or it did back around 2000 anyway. Chris’s Invincible Superblog has a post pointing out that the Archie spin-off comic book to Archie’s Weird Mysteries in which Archie Andrews dates a sexbot named Lisi.
Lisi was created by a local mad scientist to have the best features of both Betty and Veronica, I believe as some sort of very-necessary research into teenage sexuality. She thus interestingly represents an attempt at sort of erotic chimera, like Jireen who was created out of Jill Keeney and Maureen Creel. Although as far as I know, neither Betty nor Veronica had to be dissolved in the process of making Lisi. (Darn!)
Squick or squee, I guess. Though perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised that something like this was going on somewhere in the Archie fictional universe. I mean, Don DeCarlo did a lot of its art for a long time, and we know that DeCarlo definitely had a thing for sci-fi cheesecake and I’d wager he’d have ventured into erotic mad science given free rein…
Glad I’m alive now, rather than back then.
In the end, Seth Brundle decides he just can’t hack being a human-fly hybrid (one which is becoming more fly than human as time goes on). And there have been complications, in the form of his girlfriend Veronica getting pregnant (with what it’s not clear).
So Brundle comes up with what is clearly very much a mad science idea, which is that he is going to use his transporter to fuse himself, Veronica, and baby into a single hybrid, one which he hopes will be more human than fly.
It’s quite an audacious idea, I must say, and perhaps it’s one source of my idea of fusing Maureen Creel and Jill Keeney into a single woman named Jireen. Unfortunately for science, Veronica is no more keen on the idea of being fused with Brundle than Aloysius was with Jireen, when Jireen proposed exactly that.
It’s a close call for Veronica, though. She almost gets fused. And I must say she makes a fetching mad science almost-victim.
Not a movie that really ends well for any of its protagonists. But it’s a true classic all the same.