Day 661

Aka Thursday 22^nd November 2018

Today I got the ebook version of ‘Smut Peddler Presents Sex Machine’, “The FOURTH Smut Peddler anthology of erotic comics brings you world's sexiest collection of dirty robot stories!”. I mostly supported this Kickstarter because it includes a story by Faith Erin Hicks, a great creator who has written and drawn some great comics and whose work is always worth checking out. So far, I’ve read Ms Hicks story, ‘Starship’ and ’Vanilla Game’ by Fiona Staples (who is probably best known for ‘Saga’), which leaves me with plenty more stories to explore and enjoy. 

‘Starship’ is set on the HMCS Venture, and is about the relationship between Daisy, a human crewmember, and Keir, the first android crewmember of the HMCS Venture. Daisy is attracted to Keir and we see their friendship develop from Daisy first seeing Keir in the mess hall to their first chance meeting to them making love. It also touches on why we explore, why people would sign up to travel deep space. 

‘Starship’ is superbly written and illustrated by Ms Hicks (with colours by Amanda Lafrenais) and it’s worth getting this anthology just for this story. It’s also more graphic than I expected, I know, I know, I’m reading an erotic anthology and should expect graphic content, but Ms Hicks previous stories that I’ve read have been at the PG/Young Adult level, but this story is definitely at the 18 rated level and kinda caught me off-guard, but in a good way 😊!

‘Vanilla Game’ is about an interactive/VR D&D style computer game and a mod that lets the player and the computer characters get more intimate and get it on. This is a really enjoyable, fun, sexy story, well written and illustrated by Ms Staples (with letters by Ben Rankel) and makes me what to read more of Ms Staples work.

Just based on these two stories ‘Smut Peddler Presents Sex Machine’ was well worth getting.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…and we’re back in the gloomy downlands of needing to cheat on three ninths of the clues (nine out of 26) with Thursday’s crossword! I just had no crossword nous today and the answers I did get, came hard (except for a couple like ‘oink’ for ‘sty noise’). But I did learn that a ‘dorp’ is a ‘small South African rural town’, that ‘Latvia’ is a ‘Baltic country’ and that a ‘fairy ring’ is ‘evidence of underground fungal growth’.