Strangeways is off to his appointment, Maureen close in tow.
(Click on the image for larger size. 
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
Lon’s single-panel page here reminds me of a title sequence that made a deep impression on me as a kid.
Youtube link here.
Maureen has witnessed something ugly, and responds appropriately.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twenty 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.)
The scary basement setting for the quantum chamber Lon created here does have a spooky abandoned hospital feel.
Whenever I see one of these I wonder at what horrors went on there before the site was abandoned. Image source here.
One of the squickiest pages in Tales of Gnosis College history.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
A nasty image, but one that has lurked in my subconscious ever since, as a young child, I saw a magician do a stage illusion of cutting a pretty girl in half.
And I wondered to myself “What if it’s real?” Image source Freaking News.
Indeed, time does seem to be running out for poor Colleen.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
Colleen’s plaintive tune suggests she knows her fate. A hint (for those of you who don’t recognize it right away) as to its origins.
Othello and Desdemona by Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875)
Evidence that, even given her likely-wretched past, Colleen picked up some interesting bits of education on the way to where she is. Image source Wikipedia.
Time is running out all over.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
Lon worked a nice bit of comics symbolism into Panel One here.
Source for the image here.
…something bad is underway.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
The theme of the damsel in mad science distress continues.
All Hail Herbert West! Image source the tumblr towritecomicsonherarms: Cassie hack.
Down in a chamber dark…
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, 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.)
Colleen’s difficult position is a classic for distressed damsels in mad science situations, with a long pulp art tradition behind it.
Image found at the tumblr GROTTU ORLOF’S PAD.
An investigation begins.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Fourteen 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.)
The “creepy dark corridor” is an effective visual trope with many, many instantiations.
Good thing Maureen has brought her own light! Image found at Creepy Pasta.
Class is interrupted.
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Thirteen 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.)
More of the women-in-prison trope!
Image found at the tubmlr Creepy by Design.
Fiat lux!
(Click on the image for larger size.
Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Three, Page Twelve 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 happen to think luminol is more than just sort of cool. It’s mad science in a bottle.
The image source is a chemistry page from the University of California at Davis.
