Midweek MC: Old School Comics With Mind Control Edition

This week I didn't find anything new that tickled my particular fancies on the EMCSA, though if you haven't read Uplink yet, I would encourage you to do so since a second chapter has been added.

This happens fairly frequently for me, but there's a lot of good stuff that gets posted every week which might tickle YOUR fancy, so it's always a good idea to browse.

Perusing one of the authors I mentioned last week, nevermind, I did discover (rediscover?) a story titled Black Swan by the same author. The method of mind control is too quick for my taste, but the relationships between the characters almost makes up for that. Definitely recommended.

And now, without further ado, let's get into the meat of this week's post.

Comics From Another Era

I, like many people, have an archive of comics from a time when... they were more accessible to me. This has given me a brief glimpse into a world I honestly know little about. These days I know far more about Anime than I do western comics, and even at my prime I was never much of a comic geek.

Luckily, the comics I do have access to contain two really fun stories that are germane to this blog - corruption/transformation/mind control. Let's take a short tour.

Vampirella

This first story is from June/July/August of 1998. Vampirella tales are usually good, bloody fun, but this story amps it up quite a bit.

Ah, red heads and vampires, a great combination. An evil, red headed vampire with a penchant for body swapping and mind control of her victims? Even better!

I gotta say, the nipple caps really do it for me, though this story does get a bit grotesque.

I find it interesting that she can be extracted like a tarot card and plugged into someone else as if she's a floppy disk. I wonder where her stylized nipple caps, forehead heart decoration, and heart panties go when she's extracted. A trans dimensional pocket?

Of course, nobody can resist the evil vampiress for long, and she starts to cause problems for our heroines. If you consider what she does next to be a problem...

Ejecting your soul in a tarot card? No problem! Tossing that card like Gambit into a new host body? No problem!

It was inevitable. And the best part of the this story. More red headed Vampirella? Yes, please!

Our heroines are helpless to prevent themselves from being controlled like pawns by our villainess! Ho ho ho!

I'm sorry Vampirella, you've caught a sudden case of the evils. There's an app for that.

Our co-heroine, Shi, seems pretty useless here. Maybe that's why the villainess didn't even consider trying to swap bodies with her.

The image of the bloody red queen here is reminiscent of Kerrigan from Starcraft. Another crush of mine. Have I ever mentioned how much I liked the second episode of Starcraft II where you get to play as Kerrigan and rebuild the Zerg Hive back into a bastion of power?

All good things must come to an end, after all, and eventually she gets defeated. But not REALLY defeated.

I like how any body she takes gets pumped up to supermodel state, inheriting her physical characteristics. It's like instant full body plastic surgery!

Back down to the denouement. This ending seems pretty weak sauce given the powers the Red Queen has shown elsewhere. And threatening to kill a baby ain't cool, yo.

I debated including this, but it's here for completeness. What a sad end for such a fun villainess. How convenient that this women has more will power to resist the Red Queen than Vampirella did. They don't even give the villainess an ambiguous ending!

A paltry end for such a fun idea. That's the way the blood flows for one shot villains, I suppose!

In my head canon, the Red Queen ejects herself from her current host when it appears that she's starting to lose her grip on the body. Shi retrieves the card and keeps it for safekeeping. Later on, in a teaser, Shi gets taken over by the Red Queen. She ends up doing her bidding for a while until Vampirella catches up to her. Another battle ensues and eventually she is driven off again.

Vampirella tries to kill the Red Queen by burning her card, but this only sets her free from her prison. Her spirit possesses another and more fun times are had trying to get rid of her. I would imagine at this point her body hopping days might be over and she might have to strike a deal with whomever her new host is, and become less of a random killer. Ah, what could have been!

Ascension

This next story of corruption comes from a series of comics called 'Ascension.' This is another Image series, but I don't quite know when it was published. Likely the late nineties, as all of my collection is from around that time period.

On a second read through of this tale, I realize I still can't really make heads or tails of what's actually going on in the world of this comic. It's a fun ride, regardless.

Before bad things happen, our heroine is already pretty kick ass.

However, things go sour for her once she is captured by her enemies. In a dream, our heroine is accosted by a specter of her lover.

As it turns out, however, the image of her lover is actually the big bad dude, who's pretty ugly in the real world.

Bamboozled by the fake images he's providing her brain, she is swayed and under his control.

 Somehow winged angel girl can visit her in her brain, but it unable to break creepy blue dude's control!

Ooh, a really cool looking badass blue woman. I wonder who that could be?

Oh yes, the corruption has changed her body color for unknown reasons. And added gratuitous chains and piercings. They don't quite explain how this happened. And they also kind of spoiled the upcoming corruption on the cover of their comic - they hadn't actually done a reveal of her new form until this cover! I do still love the change that happened, but I kind of wish it was handled in a less abrupt fashion than 'yeah, she's bad now.'

She's blue, pierced, and brainwashed!

She's totally under his control! I love the glowing blue eyes the corruption gives her.

Smashing through windows is probably a bad idea, even if you're a super amped up mind controlled woman.

Voivodul has great taste in women. He also needs plastic surgery. Dude, you're ugly!

Now she looks more like a Drow, but she's still a human. Maybe.

For more unexplained reasons, the evil bad dude's control over her wanes. We see here that when he's not in full control, her body gets less blue.

The linkage between our heroine and the big bad leads to his inevitable downfall.

The strange thing is, after she defeats him using her mind link, her body turns permanently blue. I'm not arguing against this artistic choice, but they never really explain why. Maybe a part of him was left in her after his death? That would be a fun story line, but they never take advantage of it. She never shows any evidence that a seed of his personality has been left behind to fester in the depths of her pliant mind. Bummer!

A sexy image of our corrupted/Blued heroine. Just because.

Inevitably, it all ends in angst.

I leave you with one more amazing image of our blue heroine in a collar. Yum.

She and her paramour Lucien get exiled from Angel land due to the bad things she did while under the bad dude's control. Never mind the fact that she wasn't exactly in her right mind.

The story takes a weird twist and turns into kind of a detective tale. Unfortunately, that story line meanders on for another ten comics and never really recaptures my interest. Too bad!

Do any of you know of fun comics like this that have great mind control scenes? I'd love to hear about them!

End of the Week: Battle Angel Alita Edition

Progress has been slow, but steady this week.

This morning I went with a few friends to see 'Alita: Battle Angel.' Back in my college days, I recall reading some of the manga, and not liking it too much due to how weird it was. They made the story much more straightforward in the film, but the weirdness is still there.

Not in a bad, way, though. Certainly Alita's overly large eyes are distracting, but you do get used to them as the movie progresses. I've heard they needed to increase the size of them to avoid having Alita fall into the uncanny valley.

It's a measure of achievement to realize that the main character, entirely CGI, is 'human' enough for you to accept that she is a real character on screen. Certainly she won't completely fool you, but the CGI is so damn good in some close ups you might mistake her skin for real skin. This film is a triumph of motion capture and the digital artists who spent countless hours on it.

TL; DR: The film is good, go see it. Especially if you like watching cyborgs get beaten to pieces. It has solid writing, and plausible plot points. Ignore the critics, they are idiots.

Hot Pressed

I spent most of this week working on a single scene. This is likely the trickiest part of getting the story's plot working due to the amount of research required to introduce each character and their costumes. This scene also has some exposition to move the plot forward and I needed to think through some of the world building before I could proceed.

I do think I'm close to finishing out this scene, after which our heroine will discover new and interesting changes occurring to her due to some opportunistic thievery, after which she will report to her spy master and the next phase of the story will begin. The plan is starting to take shape!

At 11,000 words already, this one is looking suspiciously like a ~30,000 word story. Which puts it a few months out from being completed. Dang.

I probably won't be able to speed up production due to the time I'm spending on proofreading 'Robot,' so I'm afraid I won't have anything to show for awhile. But do stay tuned if you like Steampunk fantasy crossed with Egyptians gods and goddesses.

Robotic Restitution

Progress proceeds, albeit at a sluggish pace. This week I've proofread another chapter, so now I am in the midst of editing chapter seven. If my word counts aren't too far off, this will be close to the end of the first book. Only two more books to go!

Re-reading these initial chapters, I've noticed there's a bit of a tonal shift after the first book due to plot reasons. While the first book seems very impersonal, containing almost institutionalized recruitment, as the plot proceeds and you learn more about Hive, the tone gets lighter due to the main character's relationship to Hive.

I briefly considered that this might be a problem, but let's save the grim dark plot lines for the stories that deserve them, shall we?

If I'm very lucky, I shall get up the gumption to finish editing another chapter tomorrow. That's probably an unlikely scenario, but I shall continue plugging away at it.

Midweek MC: Futanari Comic Edition

I've decided I need to turn this weekly post into a combination of 'nice stuff I've seen this week' as well as miniature reviews for the MC stories I've read over the week. I'm starting to run out of backlogged items anyway!

I'll still sneak in awesome stuff I've seen as well, but I won't be entirely focused on that going forward.

MCStories

This site usually updates Saturdays, and I browse it every week looking for stories that tickle my fancy. Here are three that I've been following this week and particularly enjoy:

The Camping Bug - That Squick Guy

This is one of the hottest, squickiest stories I've read in quite some time. The mind control vector is very large bugs that turn women into nests to create more bugs? Yes, please!

I don't think as many people like this kind of horror story, but I do!

I love that the new 'nests' are really happy about being nests after they've been converted!

It's too bad the story is only a two parter, but I'm looking forward to more from this author.

Uplink - nevermind

The depersonalization associated with robots/nanomachines don't generally float my boat, but Hive Drone creation and serial recruitment are always fun. I don't have much to say on this one as I've only gotten half way through, but the way the first recruitment is handled is quite hot.

I'll have to dig into this author's backlog and see if there's anything else I would enjoy in there, as it looks like they have been active for quite some time. I'm not sure how this author flew under my radar, but it's possible my tastes didn't align with this author's past works.

It Rings for Thee - Doctor D

There are lots of things to like about this tale - the idea of a group of powerful, foreign women coming into a town and slowly taking things over with powerful artifacts has been done before by Tabico to great effect, and I'm pleased to see it again here. The animalistic nature of the hunter women, and the strange things the invaders are forcing the townspeople to do as they are subtly changed amps up the heat.

My only major gripe with this tale is that it's so damn SLOW to get to the denouement. It's the opposite problem of many tales, where the mind control is wham, bam, thank you maam, and there's no build up. Here you're just left waiting with the faucet drip, drip, dripping material to you.

We still don't really know the true form of the huntwomen. We haven't really seen any transformation being done yet to the main heroine despite her slow fall into corruption - and it's three long chapters into the story already!

This story is incredibly promising. I won't give it up, but I'll have to wait and see if the payoff matches the hype. I suspect the next chapter is where it will really get hopping. Hopefully.

Uzobone - Black Helix

I haven't mentioned Uzobono on this blog yet? Crazy!

She's been making amazing rendered comics for a long time, now. To catch her earliest work, you'll need to visit MC Comix, which is unfortunately still pay walled.

However, all her most recent work is freely available on DeviantArt! I would especially recommend the CORE series, a collaboration with Tabico.

Her latest offering, titled Black Helix, is, in my opinion, one of her best efforts yet. That's only if you're okay with futanari, however. If not, I would recommend the rest of her collection, as it is all lesbian. She even says herself that this is probably the only futa comic she'll ever make, which is a shame, since she makes such high quality comics.

There's a lot to like here in her latest offering - forced transformation, brain washing, with a side of eventual pregnancy. I won't give too much away. Just... go read it! It's free!

Miraculous Ladybug - Reflekta

Let's take a segue in an odd direction. 'Miraculous Ladybug' is a French children's cartoon about two teens in France with the ability to transform into costumed superheroes - a ladybug and a cat guy. They episodically fight an evil villain which has a penchant for transforming other normal teenagers into his minions - which means they're effectively fighting a proxy war all the time. Sucks to be them.

As a children's show, this is of course played with a light tone, but some of the transformations are quite interesting. One episode in particular spawned a lot of fun transformation art.

The episode can be seen on Youtube here. The villainness, called Reflekta, is granted the ability to turn other people into copies of her. This unfortunately doesn't involve changing their minds as well... but imagine what could have been if that were the case! What if she had won?

Plenty of people did imagine that:

Please join Club Reflekta. When you leave you might be a little bit... changed.

Reflekta combined with goo physics. She looks so... gloopy.

More platform boots, please? I like this trend. Let's do it more often.

Ah, Reflekta with a side of that Joker gas. Epic.

That's it for today. Enjoy!

The Very Late Update So I Can Go To Bed Edition

This week has proved to be busy, far busier than I had originally reckoned on it being. It's fun to hang with friends, but soon the time vanishes, the weekend is over, and you begin to wonder if you've been doing anything productive with all that time.

Here, the answer is simple: not much in the writing arena.

'Hot Pressed' is not going to be hot off the press any time soon. I've successfully moved my heroine from the ground to her first adventure on an airship, but now I'm besieged with such banalities such as whether she should attempt to climb onto the airship via a line in front of a running engine nacelle, or behind it.

Given that I was unable to figure out whether someone passing in front of an engine would feel forces sufficient to prove dangerous, instead I think she needs to climb up behind it, as the prop wash will definitely be hazardous. It feels dumb that it took so long to make this decision, but I truly think that ensuring small things like this are more plausible makes a story more immersive.

Of course, this doesn't solve what exactly the airship looks like on the interior, so that's another layer of complexity that has yet to be worked out. Regardless, the first pivotal scene of the story is about to be told. Which indicates to me that I may be nearing 1/3 completion on this tale.

If I'm extremely lucky, this will remain a short story and not turn into something more ridiculous.

Robotic Restitution

The big angry gorilla in the room for me. Sadly, not a lot of work was done on this project this week either. I did finish proofreading chapter five, and chapter six looks fairly short, so that should definitely be done this week as well. 

I'm rapidly getting close to finishing reading the 'first novel' part of this tale, though I have yet to firmly decide there the first novel should end. I'll need to do some word count calculations and compare that to natural stopping points in the story.

That, though, can wait for later, after the first proofreading pass is complete.

It's late now, and I can't be bothered to type up another discussion, so that will be it for this week. Have a great week, everyone!

Midweek MC: CHYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) Edition

Choose Your Own Adventure. The phrase hearkens back to my childhood, scattered with small paperback books containing odd choices. A time traveler? An art thief? A mystery? All those and more could be had in those short adventure books. As long as you didn't make the wrong choice and get sucked out an airlock, shrunk by a shrink ray, or pulled apart by a roiling portal.

I tried to make one myself out of a sheath of paper when I was a kid. It was a horror story about an axe murderer, and you as the hero had to make decisions to avoid being killed by him. I recall there was one scenario in this sordid tale where you were juggling knives and needed to make the right choice to avoid killing yourself with a flying knife.

Yes, I was a strange kid.

The problem with good CHYOA is that it's hard to write. Not that any individual piece is that difficult, mind you, but because of the branching paths there's so much MORE to write. A single narrative gets split and chopped up into any number of endings you desire.

Writers often get bogged down trying to work on different endings and never finish the story at all. To help solve this problem, web sites have been created to help authors share the load with each other, which then results in different problems - a lack of vision and differing skill levels.

Nothing is more jarring than reading a fun story where the writing takes a turn for the worse due to swapping authors midstream. The new author decided he didn't like the story line and looped the story back to the beginning. Or the choices you're given are boring.

Sure, a different author could come back and flesh out a different choice for a more interesting ending, but that might never happen. Eventually, these stories peter out as the original author loses interest, or they turn into completely different stories as other creative visions take hold.

That isn't to say that good choose your own adventure stories don't exist. It simply means that they are harder to find. Fortunately, I have two great corruption/transformation stories here that I'll list, and if somebody else knows of more hopefully they'll post them!

A good CHYOA on Amazon

It's harder to make the leap to reading a CHYOA on Amazon because it's difficult to invest in something that may not quite strike your fancy. Self-published CHYOAs will at least be more complete than their counterparts online, but it's easier to read and discard ones you don't like when you're not paying money for them.

Fortunately, Escape the Island of Eldritch Lust is definitely one I can recommend.

The story has the erroneous subtitle 'Princess to Pleasure Slave Adventure 2,' which is silly to me since 'adventure 1' isn't a choose your own adventure tale. That collection of short stories might be interesting in their own right, but I haven't read them so you'll need to decide on your own.

Regardless, the story is long and the endings are many. You can be corrupted yourself, corrupted with your mother, corrupted with your sister, etc. The table of contents sets you up to skip to certain endings, making it easy to read certain paths in the story if you so choose. I've read a handful of CHYOA stories on Amazon, and by far this one is the best laid out so far.

In passing, I should also mention The Easily Defeated Hero's Monster Girl Adventure. While by the one of the co-authors of the other work, I don't consider this to be nearly as good because not as many alternate paths have been fleshed out. Also it looks like those people buying the stories separately may have gotten hosed, which is unfortunate (include me in that list, I probably won't be buying the final collection). Still, it's a fun romp if you're into that sort of thing.

A great CHYOA on chyoa.com

If you're looking for something more free, I have found a story I would recommend on chyoa.com - The Tower.

Fair warning, though, you'll only find this hot if you're not afraid of mind controlling bugs/aliens with tentacle thingies converting victims into hive breeders. However, there are also plot points where women soldiers are corrupted by the hive, their hair turning pink as they become breeding bimbos.

The best bits, in my opinion, is where some of the characters turn into matriarchs and help to convert their compatriots to the side of Hive. There is also a path where your character gets podded and altered into a more willing slave of the tower. Yum.

In general, chyoa.com is a good place to write this sort of smutty fiction, but you will need to register for a free account if you want to look at the story map. 

I would advocate doing this, as the story map not only shows you which paths are available with their titles, but also color codes which paths you've already read. It can be difficult to determine what you've already seen in a CHYOA tale, and this helps with that immensely.

Have fun choosing your own corruption!

Writing Update: Middling Progress Edition

The snowstorm last week threw everything for a loop, and I'm just now starting to get back into a useful rhythm for working on my projects.

Very little got done on 'Hot Pressed,' though I have managed to get the first capture scene almost fleshed out. I'm stuck between wanting to show what's really happening during the abduction of the first 'victim' vs. increasing the amount of suspense/foreshadowing. The latter has won out for the moment, since I'll be showing the end result of what happened to this captive later on in the story.

It does preclude me from being able to write a hot conversion scene, but I think it's more important to the flow of the story that I make it happen this way. Flow matters more than show.

The worse news is that I'm not feeling the motivation to work on this story like I was for 'Robotic Restitution.' I think that's really more a fact that I'm earlier in the process - too many plot points need to be fleshed out, and I haven't gotten close to the characters yet, so it's harder to make their thoughts and dialog flow. I'm sure it will get easier with time as long as I stick to it. And this time I will stick to it - I will get these ideas onto the screen and out of my head.

I'm saying that just to convince myself, aren't I?

But it really needs to happen, as I badly need to plot out and start work on the teaser story for Robotic Restitution, as that will be a big blocker towards getting it released. Advertising is tough work when you're a nobody.

Robotic Restitution

Progress is being made on the proofreading process. I've just finished proofing chapter four. There are about sixteen more to go, and I'm estimating that each chapter takes about three hours to do the first proofreading pass.

That leaves about 48 more hours of work to do before I can start the second proofreading pass. From this end of the process that seems like an insurmountable mountain, but I'll keep plugging away at it.

Let's not mention the currently nonexistent cover art and teaser story that needs to be written before I can release anything.

Seems likely that it will be half a year before I'll be ready to publish. That seems exorbitant, but realistic. Real authors obviously get a lot more help than I am soliciting, so it wouldn't take them nearly as long as it's taking me. Real authors also have a better idea whether their project will be a success - I suspect that this probably won't be, since, to be realistic, what I'm writing is pretty niche. As it's a passion project, I really can't devote more resources to it other than my time since the return on investment will likely be minimal.

This is probably a stupid tack to take because it increases the lead time on getting anything else done, but there's too many uncertainties involved for me to feel comfortable doing anything else. Bummer.

This has already run on rather long, so I'll save some of my other discussion topics for another time. Adieu!

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The Not Getting As Much Work Done Because of the Snow Edition

After finishing the first draft of 'Robotic Restitution,' I've slacked off a little. I rather expected that might happen, but it doesn't make me any happier that it has happened.

Still, this weekend I have managed to proof read two chapters of Robotic Restitution, which means there's only ~15 to go on the first pass (which isn't really true, since I already know the last chapter is probably going to be split into three).

The first pass is the most important, as this is where I'm taking copious notes to ensure internal story consistency/fixing continuity problems. Later passes will be less for content and more for typos, so they ought to take less time to execute.

Unfortunately, the version of Libre Office I'm using is now refusing to spell check anything, so as usual there's more troubleshooting required, as always seems to be the case with software.

New Work - Hot Pressed

I've started work on 'Hot Pressed' again. Fortunately, I have good notes on that story, so I know more or less how it's supposed to go.

However, I'm already starting to do some scene shuffling for plausibility purposes. For example, my original intent was that a gang of crew members goes into the city and randomly abducts a person to convert them into another member of their crew. 'Press Ganging,' as it were.

On retrospect, this won't really work all that well - too many questions need to be answered. Why would the foreign city guard members let them wander around their town to do this? During twilight hours, what kinds of people are they going to find to abduct? How are they going to abduct them without anyone noticing?

Answering these questions has significantly changed how the capture process is going to work. Instead of grabbing someone off the street, I need the induction squad to be searching for a suitable candidate. This candidate must be someone who is compatible with the head mask they are looking to fill, and this person must be willing to leave their current country behind. Having genetic markers from the nation this capture squad hails from is also important. The capture method will need to be some form of hypnosis combined with a somewhat willing subject.

The subject will be removed back to the source airship for further processing via a wooden coffin the squad members are carrying around - that's less likely to draw attention. The family of the person who is being abducted will be compensated and mind controlled.

Overall, I think that will provide for a more interesting and plausible story, preventing the reader from scoffing at what's going on. Sure, as a writer I have complete control over what happens - but I don't want to make the people in the story seem like complete idiots. Being internally consistent plot-wise is, I believe, one of the most important things a story can do.

Unfortunately, this week the chances I have to work on stories has been rather light due to terrible snow conditions in the area. This reduces the amount of time I spend on public transport and therefore the amount of time/motivation I have to work on this story. Continuing bad weather makes it less likely I'll get any progress finished this week as well, but I will get back to it eventually. I'm already thinking that this is probably going to end up ~40,000 words by the time it's wrapped up, so it's definitely not going to be a small project. It seems that anything I think is small on first blush always balloons upwards in size anyway...

Why I like Happy Endings

AKA 'bad endings and why I like them.'

But only if they're a certain type of bad ending. The 'happy' bad ending.

What makes up a 'happy bad ending?' You might inquire.

That's fairly simple. Everyone is happy in the end. That might require some mind alteration to make it happen, but that's perfectly acceptable.

What isn't acceptable is turning the main character into a mindless vegetable, a cored catastrophe, an automated automaton without any volition left. Don't get me wrong, those types of endings can be pretty hot if executed well. They work fine as bad ends in multiple choice adventures and games as punishments for the user making dumb decisions to see what will happen if they are terrible to their main characters. However, they will never make me want to re-read them - why bother if your character became a robotic puppet with no self-volition?

In the same way, the 'happy' ending where the main character wins out against the mechanism of mind control completely kills the erotic tension in a story for me. "Hey, you thought you were getting a good dose of mind control, but this character has plot armor and nothing truly bad can ever happen to him/her." This gives a story a feeling of impermanence, as if nothing will ever change for the main character.

As with all things, moderation is key.

I think that's why I keep coming back to Tabico's tales, Herd Instinct and Weaponized in particular. Sure, terrible things happened to the main characters, but by the end of the tales they were absolutely fine with whatever had been done to them. They loved having it happen to them. They gave themselves to it. They wanted it wholeheartedly.

I think you could also pull off a tale where by the end the character has been changed at some base level by the experience. But that might also be a convenient setup for turning the main character into the villain for the next tale... which sounds like an excellent idea, I should get right on that.

Corruption and Transformation

Some of my favorite artwork follows these themes. Of course, if they happen to mix in some mind control to make it happen, that really spices it up. Over time, I've found that if the corruption and mind control is executed well, the subject matter is less important to me. Of course, I'm sure that won't be the case for everyone, so feel free to skip the categories that don't do it for you.

In this post, I'll run down my the top four artists that use these themes to create some really hot stuff (which is convenient given that I don't really have more than four I can think of at the moment anyway).

4. Clown Transformation - Miycko

Usually people go for the 'creepy' clown stereotype. I've only found a few instances where that's been flipped on its head, and Miycko is one of them. Most of this artist's work consists of people transforming into clowns - and really enjoying it. In one of them there's a gender bender transformation, but for the most part it's played safe. Who wouldn't want to be a cheerful, big breasted clown?

There's a whole series of comics you can read here: 

1. Raising Boobsy

2. Boobsy's Bedside Manner

3. The Clowning Touch

4. Pleasure Parlor

3. Animal/Bug/Snake/??? Transformation - Lunate

I like a some of Lunate's work, but some of it is honestly a bit repellent. I think that's because the insect transformations he does just look ugly to me. Still, there's some good material here to enjoy.

I especially like the Slerm Hive and Lyrian Rites and Ceremonies. However, a lot of them I'm a bit iffy about. I can enjoy The Basement due to the corruption elements, but that one straddles the line. You can explore and decide for yourself.

The artist also has a page on FurAffinity. I'm not really a furry aficionado, although I do enjoy some of the artwork they come up with if it happens to intersect with some of my fetishes.

2. Ponygirls - Domigulas - Wabuki

I rarely find a lot of doujins to be interesting to me because they don't scratch that transformation/corruption itch without adding in ugly men or really horrific body alterations. These comics, however, happen to really hit a lot of my buttons with transformation, enforced bondage, and mind alteration.

No reservations here, these are pretty much straight up fetish fuel, fun femdom pony girl comics.

If you like this sort of thing, make sure to catch all of the material available:

1. Domigulas Volume 1

2. Domigulas Volume 2

3. Domigulas Volume 3

4. Organized Heroines

5. Domigulas Report

1. Magical Girls - Dinaranger - Monmon

This has been a long running series, and sadly it looks like it will never get a real ending due to the artist disappearing. However, what's here is amazing.

Evil bodysuit liquid that converts the victims into soldiers? Serial Recruitment? Conversion of magical girls into hybrid monsters that turn against their sisters in arms? Yes please!

By far one of my favorite scenes is in the third volume, where one of the characters slowly falls into the clutches of the bodysuit she's not convinced she's actually wearing.

If you missed this one, I would jump on it right away.

1. Volume 1

2. Volume 2

3. Volume 3

4. Volume 4-6

5. Volume 7-8

6. Volume 9-11

7. Volume 12-14

8. Volume 15-16

9. Volume 17-18

Conclusion

I totally didn't just do this so that I won't lose the links to these series in the future like I have in the past... :)

If you have anything else you consider to be amazing, feel free to leave a comment below!

The It's Done Edition!

It's done, it's done, it's done!

The first draft is done of Robotic Restitution (new title(s) pending[TM])!

Countless hours (including four hours today), and ~210,000 words later, it's done!

Yikes! I don't even know what to do with myself now! Start the next story, I suppose, tomorrow! A palate cleanser before I start on the teaser story for Robotic Restitution, which I haven't yet really plotted out yet (I know the setting and general gist of what I want to do with that story, but not the details).

And now the real tasks begin - proofreading, proofreading, proofreading some more, figuring out title cover art, then doing the research/formatting on how to get this project posted on Amazon.

With the number of words this tale has now consumed, I'm now thinking it needs to be a trilogy. 70,000 words per novel is almost 300 pages per book if this were to be published in a paperback (which of course, it never will be). That seems like a reasonable length to me, given many erotic works sell as short stories.

The fact that this is long form will actually probably work against it, I suspect. Certainly writing long smut novels like this is not sustainable as a day job, but as proof that it can be done, I'm very proud of what I've been able to accomplish.

Anyway, now that this is complete, it's going on the back burner while I work on proofreading it, which means it's going to go dark for quite some time. I'll will post updates on this project while I work on new projects, but I wouldn't expect this to be out any time soon.

Next on Deck

My next number is a story I call 'Hot Pressed' about Egyptianish headdresses, body transformation into hybrid human animals that match the headdresses (that's what killing bites is!), airships, and backroom spying - which I haven't worked on since 2016. This seems like a fine time to dust off the existing manuscript, read the notes, and try to muddle my way through to the end.

It will probably take a few weeks to get done, but this sounds like a great year to start posting new content! It will be quite satisfying to start working on the backlog - I have far too many story starts for short stories that need attention.

Cheers For Now

With so much happening today, I think I shall save some of the discussions I have queued up for another week when not so much is happening. I'm rather wrung out from the writing marathon I did today - I just couldn't let yet another week pass without getting it finished!