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www.the-agencies.com presents The Agencies #24

Oblesklk

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The Agencies #24 is available for sale!

To see The Agencies, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

After a long hiatus from the series, we have decided to release both The Agencies #23 and #24 on the same day! it is a lot of tickle action and story telling packed into two issues. We're wrapping up this story arc after several years of its telling. Karma has finally, after so long, captured her prey, and has her right where she wants her. Karma's assault on the agency has failed, yet her consolation prize is in her grasp: the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe in the form of a red headed teenager. Only, the key is not cooperating with Karma, and she is becoming rather desperate.

In summary, this issue has:

  • 15 interior color pages
  • Includes a color cover
  • Pencils/Inks by Andrea
  • Colors by Ylenia
  • Letters by Ramoskaiju
  • Written by Oblesklk
  • Directed by Oblesklk
  • This is the shocking conclusion to our multi year story arc, it is a longer than usual issue
  • Upskirt scene with one of the main characters
  • Use of a power to tickle someone until they go unconscious
  • Topless scene
  • F/F tickling
  • Brutal tickle torture of a seemingly innocent ticklee
  • Breast tickling
  • Tickling through use of a feather
  • Underarm tickling
  • Midsection tickling
  • Tickling through use of fingers
  • Tickle torture until ticklee is completely broken
  • Ticklee losing complete control of her bodily functions
  • Shocking conclusion to the story arc involving several of the main characters
  • Costs under $10.00 if your purchase qualifies you for our maximum discount, or just $12.95 as a standalone purchase!

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I feel like The Agencies/Frontiers stories have lost touch with their roots as tickling fetish comics. When swaths of characters are getting killed off they sexy fun dies too.
It's like, oh i like this... mmm sexy tickling... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... Oh... She's dead now... well this feels weird. Death can be quite the boner kill.
 
I have the same feeling. I haven't bought this issue yet, but an earlier issue of Frontiers killed off a character I really liked. That ended that series for me. I realize that writers like to go in different creative directions, but adding gratuitous violence/deaths to tickling comics seems out of place.
 
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In summary, this issue has:

  • 15 interior color pages
  • Includes a color cover
  • Pencils/Inks by Andrea
  • Colors by Ylenia
  • Letters by Ramoskaiju
  • Written by Oblesklk
  • Directed by Oblesklk
  • This is the shocking conclusion to our multi year story arc, it is a longer than usual issue
  • Upskirt scene with one of the main characters
  • Use of a power to tickle someone until they go unconscious
  • Topless scene
  • F/F tickling
  • Brutal tickle torture of a seemingly innocent ticklee
  • Breast tickling
  • Tickling through use of a feather
  • Underarm tickling
  • Midsection tickling
  • Tickling through use of fingers
  • Tickle torture until ticklee is completely broken
  • Ticklee losing complete control of her bodily functions
  • Shocking conclusion to the story arc involving several of the main characters
  • Costs under $10.00 if your purchase qualifies you for our maximum discount, or just $12.95 as a standalone purchase!
 
I feel like The Agencies/Frontiers stories have lost touch with their roots as tickling fetish comics. When swaths of characters are getting killed off they sexy fun dies too.
It's like, oh i like this... mmm sexy tickling... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... Oh... She's dead now... well this feels weird. Death can be quite the boner kill.

I have the same feeling. I haven't bought this issue yet, but an earlier issue of Frontiers killed off a character I really liked. That ended that series for me. I realize that writers like to go in different creative directions, but adding gratuitous violence/deaths to tickling comics seems out of place.

I like these kinds of discussions, but I hope you can appreciate I've become a bit fatalist over the years in terms of my abilities to change anyone's mind or assuage any fears.

From your point of view, you like what you like. There's nothing in the world I can type to persuade out of your feelings of how you enjoy spending your leisure time. And you're certainly not alone in your point of view! Far from it.

From my point of view as creator/writer, nothing at all has changed in these series. This is an adult product, written by adults, meant for adults, covering adult themes. It explores a wretched world in which capitalism has won, in every regard. Governments and religions have crumbled, leaving business interests to run the world and shape society. It is a violent, predatory, and dangerous place to be. In the very first issue of The Agencies' storyline (The Agencies #7) we see that Karma has seemingly paid two men to stage a faux attack on her to gain the interest of her little sister. She could've just tapped Mirth on the shoulder and said "Hi, I'm your sis" but she rather got a kick testing her sister and ultimately watching two guys get sliced up by her sister. Mirth, not knowing any different, falls for the ruse and without knowledge of what went on, unsheathes her katana and hacks the guys to death in cold blood. Then instead of asking her sister back to her headquarters to discuss the paradox of why women are powerful, yet men still retain all the power (the impetus behind Karma's failed revolution), Karma instead hauls Mirth's unconscious body back to base and joyfully tortures her along with her henchmen, really just for fun. We learned in the expanded universe stories (for lack of better term I guess), that Karma is responsible for Mirth's power. Karma experimented on her little sister years ago, in the hopes of amplifying her powers. The experiments were a success, but the side effects was it made Mirth very sensitive to her surroundings...in other words, more ticklish. Karma gleefully exploits this knowledge to send Mirth into hysterics for no apparent reason, other than spite for being so powerful (which Karma was responsible for). Karma tortures her little sister to the point of breaking her, then uses a telepathic power to essentially mind rape her by implanting false memories into her tortured brain in order to force her into slavery for her cause. And Mirth breaks, becoming subjected to the will of sheer cruelty for upwards of 17 issues in the storyline. And that's the first issue. There are a lot of dark, sick, twisted things that happen in that first issue, but it fits the overall theme.

It's little different for the Frontiers. We open the story and Agent Crosshair has four head shots in four seconds on page one. We learn that the family the Agency is trying to extract was just attacked by The Nine. The gang murdered Anya's father and brother because they were in the way and if the Agency hadn't intervened, there was a strong likelihood Tess and Ginny would have been raped and tortured repeatedly by the gang while they used Anya to resurrect what they thought was the remains of The Ruthless, the goddess Stacia Walton. Agent Crosshair the sniper is captured and tortured for fun. She then calls down an orbital laser strike on a giant mech and its crew, absolutely annihilating them. A lot of death. And that's how the story opens. I would argue the series had quite a happy ending, compared with where things could have gone.

The tones of these series were set rather early, and death has always been a part of them as a natural consequence for a dangerous world.

If we were having this discussion about the events of Tickle Magnet, I absolutely would see the point. That series is far more interested in fun and the loving relationship between recent high grad schools and their experiences before and during college.
 
I don't think it's a matter of changing our minds or assuaging our fears. These are your creative endeavors and like any artist, you go where your creative mojo takes you. While I agree that your Angencies books have always had killing in them, for me personally, I think I was either less turned off or more forgiving because they were always faceless/nameless guys who were non characters. They might as well have been red shirts from Star Trek. It's when you've killed off characters I've been invested in that I've had a problem.

I wasn't thrilled with Agent Succubus being killed off and I wasn't alone. Also, she wasn't killed off in what I viewed as a particularly violent nature so it didn't turn me off of the book. But your latest female character kill was shot multiple times through the chest and she was covered with blood. I guess, at the end of the day, I don't like seeing these female characters brutally hurt/killed. I think, for me, you crossed a line in issue nine of Frontiers when you turned that brutality on the main female characters. This is where I think a change has occurred. Maybe it was inevitable given the tone you were trying to set, but for me, it doesn't work.

As far as your other points of "mind rape" and such. For me, I just viewed it as a mind control/brain washing scenario. Rape is not something I ever thought about. It's certainly a valid point, and I can see where someone would totally see it that way. However, you and your artists are a lot more subtle in your depictions than you realize so while you intended brutality from the beginning, the situations and facial expressions gave me a different impression.
 
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Personally, I always looked at the death of Succubus as a totally unnecessary event that showcased a fundamental lack of understanding about the value of a character. Those few issues of Agencies were just about the most momentum I believe I ever saw toward that company, and while it had been going on, the Succubus character and the build up to her capture and he tickling were definitely what I consider the high watermark. Succubus became a breakout star. She had fans. This isn't something that is easy in genre, and when you have that, you have a mascot, you have a star, and you have a wonderful tickle target and a wonderful ler and all that.

Instead, she dies. Why? Because. And I am sure there can be a multitude of explanations for it, but given my background, I don't buy it...because it felt like a creative decision that was held in a minority, it felt like it was done strictly for shock value, and to be frank, the things achieved could've been achieved just as easily had she lived.

No Agencies character, save Rylie from Ruthless, has ever captured audience momentum like Agent Succubus did...and that event gets pointed to as a success quite a bit, but I think it was a massive miscalculation and failure by Dave2112 and yourself.
 
I don't think it's a matter of changing our minds or assuaging our fears. These are your creative endeavors and like any artist, you go where your creative mojo takes you. While I agree that your Angencies books have always had killing in them, for me personally, I think I was either less turned off or more forgiving because they were always faceless/nameless guys who were non characters. They might as well have been red shirts from Star Trek. It's when you've killed off characters I've been invested in that I've had a problem.

What you just said means a lot to me. It really does.

I've tried my best over the last decade (yeesh, longer I guess) to create characters that people care about. So it's good to know in some cases, these are characters people care about. And I don't take that lightly. They're not killed off willy nilly to create sales or any other silly thing like that. I could care less about sales, provided the books sell enough to cover the costs of the artists that created them. Each death is considered quite a bit to make sure it fits in with the storyline. It's hard to convey or prove that since I don't share intimate details about how we do what we do...whether it's recruiting, marketing, writing, spitballing ideas, or production. But I can assure you, I think quite a bit about the direction of a story before it goes to print.

In fact, one of the things I struggled for months with (quite literally) about writing The Agencies #25, which should hit shelves in a month or so, was whether to have Agent Starlight outright kill Karma. That's somewhat spoilery I guess, but I'm not saying what happened, just that I struggled to figure out how she would truly react in the situation where #24 ended. And in the end, I made the right choice, but it's tough. I actually wrote out the scene both ways, and one just didn't make sense. And that happens a lot. Things sound great in planning, then the execution is terrible so it gets rewritten because either the pacing, tone, or intent is just off.

I wasn't thrilled with Agent Succubus being killed off and I wasn't alone. Also, she wasn't killed off in what I viewed as a particularly violent nature so it didn't turn me off of the book. But your latest female character kill was shot multiple times through the chest and she was covered with blood. I guess, at the end of the day, I don't like seeing these female characters brutally hurt/killed. I think, for me, you crossed a line in issue nine of Frontiers when you turned that brutality on the main female characters. This is where I think a change has occurred. Maybe it was inevitable given the tone you were trying to set, but for me, it doesn't work.

Succubus's death was tough. I think it was a horrible, drawn out, humiliating death. She was raped with an icy contraption of Yin's choosing, and forced to scream and climax simultaneously until her heart gave. No, there was no blood, but that scene was rather disturbing to write. I loved the back and forth between Yin and Yang in that scene and their choosing to escalate their powers. But in the end, the competition got out of control with absolutely no one there to stop it. So it was cause and effect, but it's no less tough to write.

At any rate, if you really liked Agent Succubus you should give The Agencies Frontiers #10 a read. It wraps up the series somewhat nicely. If you read it just to follow 1 or 2 characters that got killed off, then ya I get wanting to stay away. But if you liked the ones that lived through #9, it's not a bad wrap up.

As far as your other points of "mind rape" and such. For me, I just viewed it as a mind control/brain washing scenario. Rape is not something I ever thought about. It's certainly a valid point, and I can see where someone would totally see it that way. However, you and your artists are a lot more subtle in your depictions than you realize so while you intended brutality from the beginning, the situations and facial expressions gave me a different impression.

I was just thinking about this yesterday, revisiting how the storyline began, and it is incredibly creepy. I was trying to imagine what it would be like if someone had subtle but tangible mental powers like those that Karma marginally exhibited in The Agencies #7. Think if someone mentally compromised your sister, daughter, or a gal in your life you care for, and had them believing he was their close lover, thus circumventing her ability to exercise her free will, and essentially rapes her with consent, after leading her to buy into this delusion. It really is odd, and I got to thinking how dark that issue truly was. Even though, to your point, Mirth is laughing the whole time, so that creepiness is not readily apparent on the pages. Interesting to think about though.
 
I feel like The Agencies/Frontiers stories have lost touch with their roots as tickling fetish comics. When swaths of characters are getting killed off they sexy fun dies too.
It's like, oh i like this... mmm sexy tickling... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... i'm getting turned on... Oh... She's dead now... well this feels weird. Death can be quite the boner kill.

Boner kill indeed. To the point where a disclaimer may even be warranted because not all of us are into that stuff.
 
I totally get where you are coming from. This is a labor of love for you and not merely a financial endeavor. I'm not going to say that you picked the wrong medium to express your creativity and themes. As a writer/artist, you can do anything you want. However...for me...and I think a lot of others (I can't say the majority, but I suspect it is a majority) buy your book as pornographic entertainment. I like a good story. I like good art. But this is tickle porno for me and as a guy who doesn't enjoy seeing women explicitly suffering, the introduction of dark themes into my eroticism is...as several have stated...a boner killer. Dark themes only work as eroticism if the viewer/reader is into those dark themes. Otherwise, they take the person out of the erotic moment.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I accept that your dark themes have always been there and that I a) let them pass if they occurred to non character characters...particularly men or b) found the depictions of those dark themes vague enough to be open to interpretation, thus allowing me to see them in a less dark view. However, when you are actually shooting a woman in the chest and blood is going everywhere, there isn't a lot of room for interpretation. It's a graphic, violent act. This is where I end up having a problem, because I can't interpret it as anything but what it is depicting and that doesn't sit well with me.
 
Boner kill indeed. To the point where a disclaimer may even be warranted because not all of us are into that stuff.

I would agree. A whole list of other kinds of content is listed for the books. I think letting buyers know that dark themes and more importantly, graphic deaths are being depicted would be a good idea. If a potential buyer isn't into that, they can give the book a pass.
 
Here's the question I'd have for Oblesklk, and every other video/comic book/story creator:

Are you maybe, kind of, 1) embarrassed by the core of tickling, or 2) just getting ready just in case! the crazy feminist/religious right comes after porn, you can say "Hey! Hey, I'm not
making porn, it's not porn, it's story!!, it's not porn, it's not porn!!!!!!"

And it's absolutely not just you, it's a few video producers throughout the decades who create these convoluted plot lines and stories, and they insist they don't shoot
porn clips.

It's a question I've wondered for a few years, and wonder what your input is.
 
Here's the question I'd have for Oblesklk, and every other video/comic book/story creator:

Are you maybe, kind of, 1) embarrassed by the core of tickling, or 2) just getting ready just in case! the crazy feminist/religious right comes after porn, you can say "Hey! Hey, I'm not
making porn, it's not porn, it's story!!, it's not porn, it's not porn!!!!!!"

And it's absolutely not just you, it's a few video producers throughout the decades who create these convoluted plot lines and stories, and they insist they don't shoot
porn clips.

It's a question I've wondered for a few years, and wonder what your input is.

I don't know what his input is, but I shoot porno with plots. It's still porno. I just put more story in mine than most tickle producers. I would say most producers out there are not particularly concerned about feminists or a potential crackdown on porn and are not trying to hide the fact that they are creating porn by packaging it as something else. Porn is more accepted now than it's ever been and I don't see the moral needle moving back to a previous, less accepting era. Any producer insisting that they are creating something other than porn is an artiste and I'm sure they feel that sounds so much better than pornographer. Just to end cap this, an ex girlfriend of mine (who I am still friends with) affectionately referred to me, when we dated, as a Porn King. 🙂 I don't know if I'm a king, but when your girlfriend thinks your nerdy or weird thing you do is cool...rock on.
 
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Succubus's death was tough.* I think it was a horrible, drawn out, humiliating death.* She was raped with an icy contraption of Yin's choosing, and forced to scream and climax simultaneously until her heart gave.* No, there was no blood, but that scene was rather disturbing to write.* I loved the back and forth between Yin and Yang in that scene and their choosing to escalate their powers.* But in the end, the competition got out of control with absolutely no one there to stop it.* So it was cause and effect, but it's no less tough to write.

At any rate, if you really liked Agent Succubus you should give The Agencies Frontiers #10 a read.* It wraps up the series somewhat nicely.* If you read it just to follow 1 or 2 characters that got killed off, then ya I get wanting to stay away.* But if you liked the ones that lived through #9, it's not a bad wrap up.

I feel compelled to comment on this, because I think it is very easy to hand wave desired intentions and 'thoughtfulness' as ways to deal with criticism. Obviously this is years removed, but I feel like the Succubus storyline is something that all storytellers and artists in this genre can look at and learn lessons from, and I don't think the tangible ramifications have adequately been discussed.

What these comics are about, what they are for, what they are intended to do, I think is quite obvious, but what makes them standout is how they can operate and how they can achieve their ends, but given intention, their ends should be clear. These are releases that are about eroticism, about tickling, and everything that encapsulates. In the days before the TMF, when materials were more spartan, art and comics were a way to express a crystallized passion for tickling in the visual medium, given that the cost was low to produce (time), and as a result, was able to funnel the raw energy that someone with this kink might feel towards things like massage parlors or asylums or interrogations or romantic rendezvous...so on and so forth. But there was one thing to govern this; either the lee is an conduit object for the audience's baser urges or the lee is an active participate enjoying the act either primarily or secretly. I don't think we'll adjusted men or women who get off on tickling ate candidates to kidnap hotties to tickle torture in their dungeon lair...but if you get deep into your own headspace, with your longings, your cravings, your id...this is what this can appeal to.

So why am I saying all this? Because, for the most part, what this kink, this fetish, the way it best operates in the creative endeavor, is to not try to get the super ego involved with things to the degree that it ruins both immersion and enjoyment. This is made even more acute with depictions of sexuality. I'm not going to say there isn't a time where the moral compass wasn't more relaxed than it is today. At the same time, the level of overtly sexual tickling is higher today than it was then, so application of that saw moral compass on today isn't a good test.

I am sorry, but nothing is a greater kiss of death than partaking in sexual tickling and using it as both a tool to sell units, to make the most erotic and visually stimulating product it can be, but couch it all in a darkness involving rape, mind rape, violence, and all that. Authorial intent matters. I'm not a tickle fetishist to discuss sexual politics, and I damn sure do not get gratification from stories where heavy rape themes need to be addressed within the context of content. You speak of the psychology of characters involved in these events, and to be quite frank, the material you generate, under that lens, makes the desire to generate this style of content with sexuality as a marketing point and a eroticism point quite disturbing.

It's as through there is a divorce, between the intention of stories, and the fact that tickling is even involved. It's as though there is a divorce between what the stories say and the medium in which they are sold. Again, it's not a secret why things like this are marketed and released. In many ways, this becomes self subversive.

It fundamentally breaks the fantasy.

Now, that three release Succubus story, from her giving herself up to save her friend, to the Twins working her over to the point of delirious desperation, again, I feel was the moment Agencies Publishing was creating a great ground swell of support, and the fact that so many community minds were giving input and that, it was definitely something to take notice toward. I would also say Succubus was an out and out breakout star, with a look and a background that seemed ripe with limitless potential for stories. And the reality is, this was accomplished organically. Another character like this that comes to mind is Rylie from The Ruthless, though she wasn't someone who could be a franchise headliner like Succubus. You took a character who had great potential and was the brightest shining star, you introduced her to some wicked ticklish torture, and then took things in a more sexual direction with her captivity...but in the end...she died. She was just a tool within this story to get over other characters, or other things. And not only that, it sucked the energy out of the immersive fantasy created. From a pacing standpoint, the culmination of the release should act as a highlight, as the moment the reader is so thoroughly enthralled that it leaves them reeling. When we arrived there for Succubus? It's her dead, on a slab.

Oh, and her killer is frantically fingering herself because she was overcome by the passionate flame of her sister.

This left me, the reader, with a lot of emotions, but I will never forget just how angry it made me. It wasn't just that she died. It was that this character who had so much potential was just finished off to service lesser characters than herself. This was a strong disconnect. The other disconnect? The art itself.

Now, you speak about the darkness in the world's you write and that, and I can understand it. When I wrote stories years ago, I made it a point to be dark, brooding, and very brutal and savage...because I saw people I was writing with and competing with not willing to go there. All I had to consider in this equation was text though. One of the chief reasons I think that the darkness, the twisted, the mind rape and physical assault and all of that that you apparently struggle with in your own scripting and go with isn't matched AT ALL in the art of the releases. The disturbing things, physically, mentally, aren't at all conveyed, whether it's by character composition, whether it's by color scheme, or dare I say, even in how the art and color is used to actualize what is on the page. As a viewer, none of these things were conveyed in body language. But you know what was?

The frenetic eroticism and ticklish torment that is supposed to trigger the audience.

I've seen BDSM art in other places, and one thing that I notice, especially when themes like you are presenting are prevelent, they are showcased and given their own sense of desperation, while also showcasing the cruelty of their situation. I think this is because, given the nature of what different people are into, the callous casualness of systematic rape and torture and the tears and suffering of the target are there to get the intended audience off...but the subtext of just how disturbing this all is is never lost. It's always there. The art, the colors, the lettering, the dialogue, the composition of the action within, those things within those Agencies releases are not geared toward actualizing this outside of the middle release where Succubus is subjected to the ice torture on her nipples. That's it. The rest is either just straight tickling, or literally, the sexualized desire that the tickling created. Succubus isn't shown suffering like that in that final release...it's much more her, getting off, teased, tickled, delirous, almost a glutton for more and more and more. And then there is and harsh pivot, and she gets killed in this tug of war between the two sisters. Even during those scenes, I am not getting that sense that Succubus is suffering to the point of death. The art style also doesn't lend itself to such dark, morbid things.

These are all things communicating information to the reader. Not only was Succubus not maximized anywhere near her potential as a character, but it went against the groundswell of organic fandom toward her and her potential ticklish misadventures. She was killed...and everything surrounding the build up and the like, from an artistic perspective, from a marketing perspective, was a disconnect between the darker goals of the story and the sexual execution and the manner in which it was contextually laid out, and made it so it felt completely forced. It was obvious, on some level, that Succubus was reacting positively in a physical, vocal, and mental way to what was transpiring by the end...and I think the gulf and divorce between intention and execution makes killing a character like her a monumental mistake.

The fact that there are multiple images that have come out after the fact involving her being tickled is almost a tacit mea culpa. And to see someone like Stacia Walton given literal God status within the Agencies Publishing framework, or Ying and Yang are given that level of importance...when to be honest, they do not connect like Succubus did in three issues...well...I think that says enough.

I can understand wanting to be or do something different. But this one felt like a very bad call then, and in the time since, has only become more and more galling.
 
I totally get where you are coming from. This is a labor of love for you and not merely a financial endeavor. I'm not going to say that you picked the wrong medium to express your creativity and themes. As a writer/artist, you can do anything you want. However...for me...and I think a lot of others (I can't say the majority, but I suspect it is a majority) buy your book as pornographic entertainment. I like a good story. I like good art. But this is tickle porno for me and as a guy who doesn't enjoy seeing women explicitly suffering, the introduction of dark themes into my eroticism is...as several have stated...a boner killer. Dark themes only work as eroticism if the viewer/reader is into those dark themes. Otherwise, they take the person out of the erotic moment.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I accept that your dark themes have always been there and that I a) let them pass if they occurred to non character characters...particularly men or b) found the depictions of those dark themes vague enough to be open to interpretation, thus allowing me to see them in a less dark view. However, when you are actually shooting a woman in the chest and blood is going everywhere, there isn't a lot of room for interpretation. It's a graphic, violent act. This is where I end up having a problem, because I can't interpret it as anything but what it is depicting and that doesn't sit well with me.

Ya, and I get that. It's also why we have so many varying comic lines. Even though it's one unifying storyline, the tones are fundamentally different. Some of the comics are going to be safer than others.

I would agree. A whole list of other kinds of content is listed for the books. I think letting buyers know that dark themes and more importantly, graphic deaths are being depicted would be a good idea. If a potential buyer isn't into that, they can give the book a pass.

An interesting idea.

Here's the question I'd have for Oblesklk, and every other video/comic book/story creator:

Are you maybe, kind of, 1) embarrassed by the core of tickling, or 2) just getting ready just in case! the crazy feminist/religious right comes after porn, you can say "Hey! Hey, I'm not
making porn, it's not porn, it's story!!, it's not porn, it's not porn!!!!!!"

And it's absolutely not just you, it's a few video producers throughout the decades who create these convoluted plot lines and stories, and they insist they don't shoot
porn clips.

It's a question I've wondered for a few years, and wonder what your input is.

There's no embarrassment I'm aware of, especially as I get older. After being married for some time, and doing TickleTown for far, far too many years, any embarrassment about tickling left quite some time ago. As for feminist / religious right considerations, it's something I no longer consider. I used to. When Bush appointed Ashcroft in the USAG position and the ridiculous 2257 statute was passed, we quickly yanked Ticklish Teens. Which was a shame, because we were gaining a lot of traction in that space. Everything was on the up and up, of course: we had proof of age for all models we worked with. It just wasn't worth the risk of legal fees and my time to combat a government inquiry. So back then, yes, when dealing with real life women so there were legitimate legal risks involved with continuing operations with the word "teens" in the title. With comics, no, no concern.

I write storylines in the books because honestly I'd be bored if I didn't. In other words, it would no longer be worth my time so I'd simply stop doing it.
 
I don't care about the ideology of it, but I get the impression from these posts that the ticklee is tickled to death in this comic?
If I'm wrong, let me know. As it stands for now, definitely not buying it with that understanding. Snuff porn is not for me.
 
I don't care about the ideology of it, but I get the impression from these posts that the ticklee is tickled to death in this comic?
If I'm wrong, let me know. As it stands for now, definitely not buying it with that understanding. Snuff porn is not for me.

Ob is probably the best one to respond to this, but I would say that Agent Succubus was the only one tickled to death, and that was several year ago. The deaths that some of us brought up were either male non character deaths that have occurred sporadically through the entire series or more recently, main male or female characters KIA (killed in action), but not during tickling.
 
I don't care about the ideology of it, but I get the impression from these posts that the ticklee is tickled to death in this comic?
If I'm wrong, let me know. As it stands for now, definitely not buying it with that understanding. Snuff porn is not for me.

Ob is probably the best one to respond to this, but I would say that Agent Succubus was the only one tickled to death, and that was several year ago. The deaths that some of us brought up were either male non character deaths that have occurred sporadically through the entire series or more recently, main male or female characters KIA (killed in action), but not during tickling.

Correct, The Agencies #13 is the only publication that shows someone being tickled to death. And it's debatable whether it was the tickling itself that killed, but rather the intense levels of various stimuli simultaneously hitting her. Regardless of the nuances, and whether they're important to some, a main character died in The Agencies #13 while undergoing non-consensual tickle torture, among other things.

It happened twice, actually, if you count the flashback scene earlier in the same issue. I found that earlier scene rather disturbing; however, it wasn't a main character so there's been virtually no feedback on that page. So I might be the only one.
 
Your lack of response to my comment is reason enough to never purchase any product you sell ever again.

You wish to collate themes like sexual assault and rape into product lines that sell these same things for mass sex appeal with this audience. This wouldn't be an issue if you yourself weren't sure to constantly push the notion from a story telling standpoint. As it stands, this behavior is extremely troubling from a production standpoint, as well as from a business standpoint.
 
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