Two enter, one leaves

I commend to the attention of readers of Erotic Mad Science the 100th post of mad science enthusiast and enterprising DIY comics creator John Villalino over at Pretty Vacant Thoughts. He’s titled it Cryodome and uses it to explore a trope he calls “Two Babes Enter, One Babe Leaves.” You should read it yourself to see what he means, but I can promise you that it’s very mad science and quite richly illustrated, spanning both his own webcomic and several classics of mad science cinema, from the cheesy spy thriller Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) to the very scary National-Socialism-Never-Really-Left horror film Anatomie (2000).

Oh, and of course Invasion of the Bee Girls.

Anna Aries seems to enjoy her transformation.

There’s something I never tire of hearing discussed

Partial tube-girl example

I’m not entirely sure what this mad scientist has in mind for this partially-entubed victim, but she doesn’t seem too happy about whatever it is.

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implied nudity in an example of the tube girl meme

Found in this post at Deceptology, which contains many other examples of this artistic genre, as well as an intelligent discussion of the tricks old-style pulp artists used to imply nudity they couldn’t directly depict.

The spider’s sex slaves!

While browsing around for fetish-fuel material pertinent to Cleo Mount’s adventure abroad, I came up with this curiosity at an online fetish e-book seller.*

Cover to a book "The Spider's Sex Slaves."

And if this 1970s-vintage literature ain’t erotic mad science, then I’ll eat my labcoat. From the publisher’s description:

Clive Beford’s [sic] articulate prose creates a strange world of ingenious women who developed a subterranean community where men are used as servants, slaves and playthings. The Spider Lady collects an army of competent female characters who populate a bizarre world of work, technology, armaments and wealth.

And in particular, it contains a character named

…Dr. Klebanoff, a gifted surgeon who used her extraordinary skills to change captive men into sex-toys for the hard-working staff.

Now that sounds like a mad scientist indeed! (But a quibble for Mr. Bedford — if this gifted surgeon is a woman, shouldn’t her surname name be…Klebanova?)

I haven’t read it, but it looks like I’m likely to.

(*) Exercise you imagination for a second, and imagine yourself transported in time back to 1950, and trying to explain to someone at that time that in your time there are such things as “online fetish e-book sellers.” Not so easy, is it?

Superheroine liquid girl

Ever on the lookout for examples in the culture of my own peculiar obsessions, I’ve come up with a superheroine named Aspen Matthews, the principal character of a series called Fathom created by the late Michael Turner. Aspen’s powers include dissolving into water, something explicitly (and sexily) depicted on the cover of the first issue.

(Image found at this Aspen comics forum.) Apparently there was for a while a proposal for a Fathom movie staring Megan Fox. One image (found here) appears as an example of the liquid girl meme.

A movie which most likely we will have to imagine rather than see. If it is any consolation, perhaps it will be better in our imaginations than in reality.

Apsinthion Protocol color ebook experiment

For those of you who were lucky enough to find a Kindle Fire or other color e-book reader under the tree this year, here is my additional present for you:

Nine sexy color pages from the first Tale of Gnosis College

A color version of the whole of The Apsinthion Protocol is now available (as an experiment). See Lon’s glorious color covers, pages, and pin-ups as they were meant to be seen, right on your e-reader. You can download the .mobi file (about 77.2 MB) either by clicking on the image above or here.

As always, if anyone has feedback or would like me to try a version customized for a different device, pleae feel free to get in touch with me.

Update 20111226: The experimental .mobi is now also available as a torrent. Click below.

TF for science!

I have to say I just love what’s going on in this three-panel story sequence created by DeviantArt-ist AzureChromatic.  We have a mad science potion and gender bending:

Followed by an episode our gender-bent subject turning into a liquid girl

girl turns to liquid

Followed in turn by the emergence of a goo girl, in lovely apsinthion green no less.

TF in the name of SCIENCE! by AzureChromatic

green goo girl (or slime girl) emerges from the liquid girl

All published here by kind permission of the artist. Evidence, perhaps, that some themes occur rather oftener than one might suspect. The post is based on a story, “Jiggle – Goo Girl TG-TF” by a DeviantArt writer, dragon8writer, whom I encourage you to read if you like this sort of thing.

Experimental site: Nothin’ but the comic

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 11 November 1842

In the great spirit of mad science, I have put up a new experimental site GnosisCollege.com, which I invite the world to visit.

As you can tell from the screencap above, this is a very stripped-down site, consisting only of comics page from The Tales of Gnosis College boxed in Gnosis College’s blue and orange colors, with some hand-coded navigation at the bottom of each page and pretty much nothing else. It’s there for two reasons:

  1. To provide a new comics-reading experience with larger-sized images than appear on EroticMadScience.com, and;
  2. To provide a version of the comic that can be readily loaded and read on mobile devices

It works decently well for me both on my screen and on my phone, but of course I appreciate feedback form readers, either in comments or via e-mail.