Aloysius poses with the proud parents.
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No snark here. Let’s just have an image celebrating his achievement.
Heinrich Füger (1751–1818), Prometheus bringt der Menschheit das Feuer (1817)
Image source Wikipedia.
Discussion over coffee.
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I hope Phil Foglio can forgive me for tossing an itty-bitty tribute to his work into Panel Five of this page.
The student café where Willie and Maureen are caffeinating up as the Gadget, and I guess it’s that name that gave Lon the idea to toss in that gear dingus as a design feature on the outside. I like it. I makes me think that somewhere in the large complex labeled “Student Union” on the map of Gnosis College that there are even more steampunky internal structures.
Found at the tumblr Steampunk Café.
A central theme of the Tales of Gnosis College is that expanding mad-science enterprises require new recruits.
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Hypnosis in the service of erotic mad science is a fun theme that has been worked with great dedication by my friend Dr. Robo and his Metrobay Comix group of creators. They have an entire work, Mesmerella, which is right on point. A teaser therefrom:
(Image used here by kind permission of Dr. Robo.) Tempted? Then I urge you to check their work out further by visiting their Wiki and their DeviantArt site. You’ll be glad you did. Just don’t lose control of your mind — unless, of course, you want to lose control of your mind…
Anyone who’s worked in radio long enough has some sort of embarrassment with a mike they didn’t know was live.
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Radio! It instructs and entertains.
Okay, so now I’m officially a bad person.
Scientific progress will not be denied.
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This is no ordinary radio.
Image of a “Crosley Giant Radio” (built in 1936, I believe) found here.
Willie discovers that a radio studio isn’t necessarily the best place to hide out.
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I wonder if the great John R. ever had events like this back in his late-night WLAC days.
Image found at WFMU’s Rock ‘n’ Soul Ichiban.
Willie seems to have gotten back to himself fortunately indeed.
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Nothing wrong with plain-vanilla sex, though it must really be something to find one just tumbled into it.
Pretty plain-vanilla image found at the tumblr now-thats-what-i-call-hentai.
For Willie, the “effect wearing off” comes at a rather fortunate time.
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For Willie it must have been like waking up from one dream into another.
Poster for this 1968 (I think) movie found at dfordoom (“worshiping beauty from a safe distance”) tumblr.
Looks like Rayna Ryan has moved up a bit on the Magdalene College pecking order.
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As a way of remembering, a cover for what I take to be some unusual tale of adventure.
From Drake Capterton’s tumblr.
Meanwhile, back in the dungeon at St. Mary Magdalene College, Willie seems to have gotten Waite’s body into rather a spot of trouble.
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Those nuns! It’s an old story.
From a French comic book adaptation of Diderot’s La religieuse, apparently available for sale here.
