HEAVENS LOST SADISM #36

 "Love!" begins with a bang, as Ikaros, seeking to break up a fight between Nymph and Astraea, unleashes missiles that blast Tomoki out of the house.

Then Tomoki comes across the Angeloid Chaos, whom the other Angeloids have already encountered. Not having seen her before, he mistakes her for an ordinary kid (albeit wearing a nun's outfit). She starts rambling her creed about how "pain is love," and Tomoki, in his usual dim way, tries to demonstrate what he thinks love is. However, all he can come up with are excuses for him to peep at girls or to expose himself before them, which earns him copious beatings. First incident UNJUSTIFIED, all others JUSTIFIED.

HEAVENS LOST SADISM #35

 "Freedom" handles the Ikaros-Tomoki relationship in a less comical manner than usual. Tomoki gets the idea that Ikaros can show more emotion if he releases her from her bondage to him. But Ikaros is upset by this freedom. Mikako then orders Ikaros to hurl Tomoki into the ocean. Ikaros at  least threatens to do so, asking Tomoki to become her master again-- and when he does, she becomes overwrought with sudden emotion. Tomoki still doesn't understand what's going in her heart, if one can judge from subsequent episodes. Verdict: JUSTIFIED.

HEAVENS LOST SADISM #34

 "Culture" starts off with Ikaros sampling something spicy, which she spits out as liquid fire right into Tomoki's face.

Then once again Tomoki and friends get involved in a musical contest. At this point, student council president Mikako, who usually lets others inflict pain on Tomoki, takes the opportunity to massacre him in inventive ways as she sings. Verdict: UNJUSTIFIED.

HEAVENS LOST SADISM #33

 Even for this series, "Division" is pretty weird, though it starts with a standard situation-- Sohara catches Tomoki reading dirty magazines and tries to chop him. Somehow she hits a mushroom that apparently represents his penis, but because he has some magic card on him, it causes him to multiply into various other forms. Verdict: UNJUSTIFED.

HEAVENS LOST SADISM #32

 In "An Oppai Mousepad," Sohara catches Tomoki with a big mousepad that looks like Ikaros' head and breasts, so she chops him. Verdict: UNJUSTIFIED.

SENORITA RIO

 Lily Renee passed away this week. She was the primary artist on Fiction House's SENORITA RIO feature, which concerned the South American adventures of the titular lady spy. whose fighting abilities were generally more realistic (and hence more modest) than those of contemporary superheroines. Prior to her passing Renee seems to have been the last surviving artist from Golden Age comic books in the 1940s. Despite a lack of strong fight-scenes Renee seemed incapable of drawing a dull page.

HEAVENS LOST SADISM #31

 In "Combine," Tomoki uses card magic to create a giant chicken. Sohara first punishes him with a simple punch. Then, when Sohara is enlarged to giant-size, Tomoki unwisely comments on being able to see her panties and gets stomped to a jelly, Verdict: JUSTIFIED,