Ball-busting courtesy of the New Huntress, whoever she is.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023
GOLD AND SILVER SADISM #6
Attack 13 shows another "innocent transgression" on the part of Yasuda as he accidentally burrows his way under Ginka's skirts. The resultant pounding takes place off panel.
Monday, September 18, 2023
PERFECT PULCHRITUDE
Nearly no one knows the name of artist Barry Blair today, but he was all over the place during the eighties black-and-white comics boom, and this cover to BODY COUNT-- a spoof of monster/slasher films-- successfully gives the POV characters a look of overdone drama, purely for comic effect.
I've already done one Catwoman entry but I can't pass up the comic that not only crossed her over with fellow Golden Age icon Lois Lane, but also brought the villainess back to the DC mainstream after an absence of many years.
WHIP IT GOOD
The original Tiger Girl enjoyed a long run in FIGHT COMICS but never became as popular as the same company's Sheena. Her creators armed the heroine with the unusual weapon of a whip, but this didn't really add any zest to the usually dull fight scenes.
Curiously, the writer(s) also gave the heroine a magic stone that could boost her strength temporarily, so she could break bonds or throw people around briefly. But the gimmick was rarely used and made little difference overall.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
SLAVEMASTER WAGES
I'm not sure if the manga currently trainslated as CHAINED SOLDIER (to avoid the use of the touchy word "slave" in the original manga title) has any great depth yet or not. But it does a new gimmick with respect to the many "master-servant" narratives seen in manga.
Usually there's some filial or societal bond that requires the servant's fealty to the master, as with DANCE IN THE VAMPIRE BUND. But in MATO SEIHEI NO SLAVE, the invasion of extra-dimensional monsters, who can only be beaten back by female power-holders, has resulted in all men becoming second class citizens. Among the many super-powers wielded by the female warriors is the ability to transform male "slaves" into huge bestial servants with which to help defeat the monsters.
However, there's a price levied every time one of the warriors calls upon this power, for they're psychically forced to yield their feminine favors to whatever man they enslaved. It's not something that the male "slave" forces on the females; the "slave wages" are baked into the use of the power. So far in my reading, the male POV character Yuuki has been transformed a half dozen times, and his "master" is forced to give him some token of her sexual favors: kissing, stripping, sitting on his face.
Oddly, though Yuuki does not seem to be a masochist, in one instance the "wage" consists of some CBT treatment from Kyouka. Unless she's only stomping him because the compulsion has worn off.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
TORTURE GUARDIIN'
Months ago, I cited a panel or two from a goofy manga called TORTURE CLUB GIRLS AFTER SCHOOL. Since I last looked at the series, it got wrapped up thusly: all four of the girls with a thing for the main hero confess to him. But he won't simply choose one of them, since he likes attention from all four. This leads them to perform low-intensity comical tortures on him, presumably for the foreseeable future.










