TIS #2: The Veil of Qadesh! (e-comic) Released! *1/07/10 **HOT**

meangry said:

Alright, what to say.

I focused much of my attention on the actual graphic novel portion of this because I believe, in past correspondence, that I addressed some of the issues I had with the attached short story by talking to you about Origins. Which is to say, now that people have a general understanding of your world, you would be hard pressed need to become repetitive/redundant in your adjective and description usage. With this medium and with the world of the Bounce Chixs now interweaved into TiS, we can expect attractive female forms being tickled to a climactic and mind altering breaking point. I still believe that you do a good job in establishing the alien other as attractive, which is something that gets underscored in science fiction generally. I think you achieve this because of your frantic intensity in making those senses often times the most punishing.

I've followed both of your work for a while, and this includes multiple purchases of material from MTJ (almost entire libraries, as it were to seem) and it can't be underscored that the both of you have improved through iteration. Much of Scavenger's work early on had the same feel texture wise, and while I enjoyed the stringent bondage and the decadent cybernetic haunts/trappings, I felt he excelled in the medium in a few pages. It was good, but there would be those slices that were almost painfully and insanely erotic (Experimental Therapy I and II from Tech Tickling come to mind almost instantly, as does Vicky's revenge against Hella from Vicky's Defeat I). At the same time, I always wonder about an artist and their complacency in a medium such as this. I think Inosaka's Paradox was a step in a different direction in some areas, but at the same time still held all those same Scavenger motifs. This piece is different; this is a more lush, vibrant, and less mechanical world, for the most part, and this plays to show the stark contrast between the mechanical and the ethereal. Even from the onset, I wondered how the aspects of Egyptian/Persian harems would act as a certain focus, and I sort of dug the out of the usual.

I think it goes without saying that the situations between Fluffy and Audrey are the stars in this piece. I mean, I know that Koki and Booki are acting as protagonists, but the actual scenes involving Audrey and Fluffy are the ones I got the same double take inducing mind fog I received from those situations previously mentioned. Maybe it is the blindfolds, maybe it is the helpless arching along with dominant positioning, but the sort of power those scenes lord exudes the fantasies of us tickle fetishists (whether it is the cryptic sense of destruction for the lee, or the damning control over another for the ler).

Overall, I'd say this is a worthwhile purchase, especially since I think even if you were to stay consistently mediocre, you'd both mulch most of your contemporaries. And this isn't a mediocre effort, so take that even further for what it is worth.

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Low_Roads said:

The Danneskold crew makes another thrilling sortie into the realm of sensual SF, with loads to intrigue eye and intellect as well as satisfy fetish appetite! Even with the tale told twice (both in comix format and as straight prose, so that nobody's favorite venue is neglected), it should be practically impossible to deliver any sort of involved narrative, occupied as this offering is with wall-to-wall tickle encounters. Indeed, the erotic massage scarcely pauses for breath, commencing as comfortable (if lively) recreation amongst the TIS familiars, then plunging into headier, more threatening territory; regardless, the storytelling rivals the classics of written or filmed fantasy for complexity and invention! It's key to this success that almost all plot-points are intrinsically tickle-related from inception; when raison detre, personal involvements, setups and payoffs revolve around a universe that's de facto fetish, tiresome, distracting justifications become unnecessary. Deeto has labored longterm to craft such an unapollogetically randy cosmos… his ongoing effort pays off instantly in well-focused characters tailor-made for galactic menaces to torment with grueling nightmares/fondly hoped-for fantasies! That even these ideal voluptuaries might have motives to work against situations so outwardly in tune with their own wish fulfillments provides the necessary dramatic frisson.

At once solid SF and phantasmagoric ghost story, Deeto's plot engages a familiar but uniquely applied premise as its primary driving force, both fabulous and credible in its imagining and execution! The do-anything elements of the concept allow incredible freedom of expression for Scav's already legendary art designs! An alabaster, hauntingly soft-edge predominates, as though the vistas and trappings of titular Qadesh were more phantom than reality (the resolution to this conundrum turns out to be more invasive than one might suspect). The haunted realm's architecture and bestiary attain attributes of the barbaric (with titanic statuary sewn into the cityscapes) and the cooly civilized (minarets and Eastern dress motifs predominate), presenting a shared promise of irresistible brute force and insidious subtlety. Throughout, it's the Danneskold intruders who supply the sole suggestion of warmth, an aura compromised whenever the surrounding miasma extends into the corrupting, possessing "veil". Certainly, the demands of Qadesh are autonomy- and soul-sapping… reason enough to resist them even when they tempt with pleasures that the crew obsess after independently!

On and off world alike are graced with Scav's unbeatable sense of composition, shading and color-blending! Spectacle (a Scavenger hallmark) abounds in panoramas that would brighten the most ornate fantasy film! A fleet of approaching "Slipper" ships blaze with vengeance-fueled fury! Sheltering planetary systems warn of their latent dangers by way of suggested kinetic energy (traditionally static imagery made menacingly active)! Yet, the Danneskold interiors offer plush, homey comfort; framing scenes of fetish fun are rendered in non-threatening, friendly terms, an effective contrast to the hoary obstacles within the story's core. Deeto's galaxy of well-loved beauties bare all for their, and our, delight in scenes of flesh-against-flesh intimacy… unusual for Scav's mecha-heavy portfolio, but he scores as unerringly as ever!

These apex talents, either singly or in concert, have delivered to this Community some of its most enduring wonders… and while I can't imagine our good fortune will last forever (inevitably, each will be called upon to serve the needs of a wider non-fetish world), the fount, at present, seems inexhaustible! I'll joyfully cruise the high heavens with Cap'n Dusty… revel along with Kitzalia's interrogations…. Bounce through time and space with Hailey, Andi and Janey… glory and despair over Vicky's defeat… just as long as the gravy train still has wheels! The best things in life may indeed prove eternal; ever-fresh legions of the enthusiastic will insure that they remain potent and popular!

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