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LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #16 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #16: Concluding the epic 4-part story "Babel." Double-crossed by their adversaries, the Bible's gods must find a way to bring down both Marduk and his tower before humans throughout time penetrate the timeless realm of the deities. But in this final…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #15 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #15: Part 3 of the epic story "Babel." A pact between the gods to summon Astarte's mighty consort Marduk backfires, as the long-banished behemoth's powers prove too great to be controlled. The story may be saved, but salvation may come at the…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #14 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #14: "Babel" continues. As Pierre Fallow's global currency comes to life in more ways than one, his disillusioned operative Dr. Green begs his former adversaries — Alan and Greta Stern — to help him save their son Jake. No one realizes, however,…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #13 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #13: Chapter 1 of "Babel." Aghast at the influence our heroes have had on their timeline, the gods summon a demon who will empower Fallow and his Biblical counterpart to rule the world. As Fallow maneuvers through the political minefield blocking…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #12 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #12: A sexual tryst between warring gods alters the story itself into a new permutation of the series Comic Buyer's Guide calls, "the most assured and original project to emerge from Vertigo since SANDMAN." With guest art from Peter Gross (LUCIFER)…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #11 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #11: “A special standalone story featuring guest art by Peter Gross (LUCIFER) and Gary Erskine (THE FILTH) reveals the hidden history of the most cryptic character in The Temple. Tyrone was once a beloved humanitarian who ran a profitable enterprise…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #10 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #10: “Concluding the 3-part ‘Down to Egypt.’ Fallow and Alec push consumer culture to a sinister new level, goading millions of young people to collaborate in their own enslavement. Jake, Amos and Pig attempt a daring hack to stop it, but when Dinah…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #9 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #9: “Part 2 of the 3-Part "Down to Egypt." What happens when the gods have a plan for you, and that plan involves sleeping with someone you're trying to avoid? The Biblical Judah found out the hard way — and so will Jake when Dinah lures him into a…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #8 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #8: “The resistance regroups in Part 1 of the 3-part story "Down to Egypt." Jake is now a fugitive, and his RFID-implanted dog Bucky must divert the army. Heir-turned-revolutionary Alec Middleton — like his Biblical counterpart, Joseph — reveals his…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #7 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #7: “Abraham's epic war with the Anakim giants reverberates through time, as Alan Stern steels himself to do battle with an army of gargantuan war machines. But his true enemy is a force more powerful than any robot.” Rushkoff’s Chapter Seven (#7)…
Evidently there's something naughty in this post and Blogger felt the need to obscure it. Please see below for more information. Occasionally, I think there are books that I've read and enjoyed that fall, at least slightly, under the purview of this blog and some that I’ve enjoyed so much that I just want to write about them and decide to stick something here. This book, this series, is somewhere…
art by Harry Smith, Magus I asked Tom and Adie to pen a couple responses to the afterword for The Sex Magicians. They graciously did so. I've combined their remarks to wrap up our series. from Tom Jackson (Archivist and Reporter) Anyone who reads The Sex Magicians by Robert Anton Wilson can tell it is both a porn novel and a work that aspires to be more than just porn. The sex magic aspects of the…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #6 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #6: “The series Variety.com calls "impossible to put down" delivers the mind-bending 2-part story "West of Eden," featuring guest; Art by Gary Erskine (THE FILTH) and Peter Gross (LUCIFER). Decades ago, young Alan Stern may have created life — inside…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAM ENT # 5 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #5: “Concluding the controversial first story arc. While Abraham dispatches the giants with his spear, Alan Stern must rely on more high-tech methods to destroy the deadly demolition robots. But the Pharaohs past and present will not take this…
Bobby Campbell (from RAW Art ) Happy Maybe Day! The Sex Magicians Chapters 15-18 After my long absence, I'm going to cover the last four chapters of The Sex Magicians . Much of the end of the book is composed of the pornographic climax of the novel and we see greater examples of sexual excess and greater doses of profane humor. Wilson needed to give the reader what they came for, right? I could…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #4 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #4: “Abraham's epic war with the Anakim giants reverberates through time, as Alan Stern steels himself to do battle with an army of gargantuan war machines. But his true enemy is a force more powerful than any robot.” As expected, Rushkoff’s Chapter…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #3 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #3: “Dr. Green's troops abduct the catatonic protesters — including Jake's former love Miriam — for ‘reprogramming.’ Jake recklessly chases them on a motorcycle, only to plunge violently off a cliff. Still, the gods won't let his story end. They have…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #2 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #2: “The explosive new series by best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff (Coercion, Club Zero-G) and acclaimed artist Liam Sharp (The Possessed) continues. The authorities strike down anti-war protesters with a wrath echoing that of the angry God who…
LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #1 (NSFW) Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit! Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #1: “From the imagination of best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff (Coercion, Club Zero-G),one of the most iconoclastic and acclaimed minds of our era, comes a series that exposes the "real" Bible as it was actually written, and reveals how its mythic…
Abrahadabra: Day Three "I am Providence" by Virgil Finlay (Imagine if this guy was the one writing The Sex Magicians , it'd be crazy how much more uncomfortable that would be.) The Sex Magicians Chapter Thirteen: "What is outside the universe?" (pg. 98-104) Whatever is out there, you have to admit that it's quite a pick-up strategy; telling some ridiculous vignette based around an apocalyptic sex…
hope in other spells: Day Two "Leda and the Swan" by Nikolay Kalmakoff (via Coulthart) The Sex Magicians Chapter Thirteen: "Who knows what Evil lurks in the hearts of men?" (pg. 84-97) Well, this is quite a chapter. Aside from the regular goetia of anxieties I have buzzing around, I think I've dithered on this post because I'm not sure that writing is not the best medium for the consideration of a…
Foaming Wines: Day One Today is the First Feast of the Writing of the Book of the Law. A blessed day. I finished rereading Ubik , today- I've been reading a lot of PKD lately, as it seems he ended up being one of the most accurate prophets. I do wish their were fuckable robots though- and it strikes me as appropriate to come face to face with the Sophia in that way, in this age. Finishing a book…
I will be back soon. It's a good thing that Wilson's first novel doesn't contain too many twists and turns. It'll be easy to jump back into. As weak as this sounds, it has been hard to focus with what is going on in my country.
In Throbbing Color The Sex Magicians Chapter Twelve: "Is God male? female? or neuter?" (pg. 81-83) God makes its only appearance in one of the chapter titles and it echoes Wilson's first published piece in Krassner's The Realist . There Wilson asked the audience to consider the size of God's dick ("willy") if we are to imagine God as a male. Here, he asks us to consider God as not only male, but…
Alternate cover to Alan Moore's Providence #11: Abdul Alhazred vs. the Mama Vibe Let's see if this one gets put behind a disclaimer: The Sex Magicians Chapter Ten: "Who is the Master who makes the grass green? (p. 72-75) Well, with one of Wilson's fondest chestnuts as the chapter title, we should be able to know that something is going to happen. And it does: herein we are introduced to the…