As some may have guessed by my not so subtle hint in our last CROSSGEN WEEK post Today's case is Jackson Guice's brilliant RUSE series written by Mark Waid and Scott Beatty which - like many other series by CrossGen Comics - was terminated before it could reach its natural conclusion.
Like I mentioned previously this post has been a long time coming even before I got an itch after writing my latest Jackson Guice spotlight posts, bust as with other CrossGen posts the question is always how much I can reveal as there is a fine balance to be struck between giving the readers enough to get them interested to pick up the series but not spoil reveals nor give away important plot points. Of which there are dozens in this.
Of which there are also dozens are double page spreads, in fact most of the pages in these issues are and it is an amazing feat by Jackson Guice and Mike Perkins ( let's not forget the inker of this excellent series who also pencilled such CrossGen series like the RUSE connected ARCHARD'S AGENTS and the british super spy spoof KISS KISS BANG BANG ) that it does get neither boring nor confusing as anybody who ever read Brian Michael Bendis POWERS can attest where artist Michael Avon Oeming was not capable to make it clear which pages are single pages and which ones are double page spreads so that you are never sure in which order you should read them and end up going back and forth - the entire time.
Speaking of these double page spreads, they pose a problem since it means that if I include them this early in the post I either have to make them so small that you can't see much or post them a bigger but have them run over the blog archive and the blog roll which doesn't look very good. I mean, I could do it but I just don't like the look of it and while there are a lot of things about writing these posts with blogger that I can't change and just have to accept thankfully this is not one of them.
So the only alternative is to bridge the space with some additional info about the series which is something that I can absolutely do. Now I don't want to repeat myself and I am sure that I must have written something about RUSE before since it is one of my favourite comicbook series but going over my old posts I couldn't find anything to that effect so for the sake of new blog visitors and long time followers with a bad memory we are starting with this from zero. So what is a comicbook and how do we read them ? Relax, I'm only kidding. As some of you may have garnered from the pictures I have posted from RUSE so far as well as from the title of this post the book is set in victorian times and the similarities with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world famous crime novel series about the world's greatest - fictional - detective Sherlock Holmes are quite intentionally because it helps to put the readers in the right mindset right of the bat.
Now there is CrossGen's unique twist on that dynamic because while being an entertaining rip - off of Sherlock Holmes in itself would be enough for other publishers - and they are a dime a dozen - CrossGen always embraced the variety and diversity in all of its different worlds.
I have mentioned a few times that one of the things that set CrossGen apart from other publishers was that they featured female characters in prominent roles when that was not the norm ( which I didn't mind much because a lot of them were very attractive and unlike other publishers CrossGen was not afraid to put artists on those books that could portray them accordingly ) so it won't come as a surprise that Emma Bishop, aide to the world's greatest detective Simon Archard is not just a sidekick in the style of Doctor Watson who often only seems to exist to give readers some expositionary dialogue but a partner and a great detective in her own right even if the majority of characters have trouble accepting that.
What is the same as in the Sherlock Holmes novels ( I know that most people know him most from the countless adaptions into movies and tv series but since I have read most of the books - and listened to audio dramas from the radio that were also wine commercials which made for a unique listening experience - that is what I am basing this post on ) is that Simon Archard is the most - or second most - brilliant mind on the planet and that he not only solves cases out of a sense for justice but also to keep his overactive mind active and stimulated. He also is very arrogant, egoistic and abrasive and rude when dealing with other people which is where Emma Bishop comes in. Also like Sherlock Holmes Simon Archard has his network of society's undesirables, young street urchins and talented never do wells who provide him with intel and support if the case requires it. For a bit of monetary compensation of course.
Now some of you may have noticed that I hinted at the possibility that Simon Archard may only be the second most brilliant detective on this world and while Emma Bishop might well be the reason for that in this case I am referring to Malcolm Lightbourne his erstwhile crime fighting partner in the vein of Batman and Robin and I am not going to say more about the nature of their partnership nor the reason for their falling out because that could ruin your reading experience. Trust me on this one.
The last thing I want to mention before leaving you with those wonderful Jackson Guice double pages spreads is that while CrossGen's RUSE was never finished ( and you can find an outline of the direction in which the story would have gone had it continued on Scott Beatty's blog DIALOGUE TO FOLLOW ) there was a four issue series published by Marvel Comics in 2011 ( who had obtained the rights to all CrossGen properties at that point ) that continued the story and while there was no mention of the sigils or negation characters references were made to characters and events from the CrossGen series. Sadly Jackson Guice only provided cover art for the series but it was written by original writer Mark Waid.
After Yesterday's sadly too brief overview over CrossGen Comics various titles we are starting on the individual series and like I already hinted at the first is Paul Pelletier's NEGATION since we already did a post on that.
Although that post turned into a " best of Evinlea " post since I did not know when I could do my next NEGATION post and so included the breast pages with the main sexbomb of the series. Which might give my readers an idea about Paul Pelletier's incredible knack for depicting the female form but doesn't help much storywise. Speaking of which, so far I haven't written much about it besides that it is kind of like if Star Trek : Deep Space 9 meets Prison Break with a bit of Farscape thrown in and I would like to keep it that way because I don't want to spoil anything for those that have not read it. For those who want to obtain some background information on one of the main characters - Obregon Kaine - not all the issues of CROSSGEN CHRONICLES were drawn by George Perez ( he was busy drawing the four issue prestige format mini series AVENGERS / JLA which is currently out of print ) and issue seven gives you the lowdown.
So in this post we go back, all the way back to the NEGATION PREQUEL and get as far as issue 2. As for Tomorrow's post I thought about doing another Paul Pelletier post but we will be talking about something else instead. And for those who can't stand the suspense until then there is a hint hidden in the cover by Rudy Nebres and Morry Hollowell above.
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There also was ship´s counselor Deanna Troy who was the consolation officer in the first version, an orgasmic tantra priestess from the planet Betasex skilled in all techniques to be used by the crew as stress relief.
Between missions the male crew members would take turns drilling her relentlessly in every orifice of her body and as a certified interstellar blow up sex doll diplomatic dignitaries from other planets - who always had extremely big schlongs - would practice sex techniques from earth with her so they could perform satisfactory during the deepthroat orgies.
Because of their telepathic abilities the women from Betasex were ideal prostitutes and they also had a very high pain threshold and were very resilient so their clients could go for it. Which happened very often when they were working at some mining outpost frequented by sexstarved aliens with dozens of huge reproductive organs or big slimy tentacles.
Her role was changed to pass american censors but they still put buxom 38D - 22 - 36 wet sex dream Marina Sirtis in a snug uniform with a very generous cleavage so that some of her breast parts were scenes in which she was leaning forward for the male viewers or just breathing heavily.
What is strange is the fact that for someone who is just supposed to give people advice she wore an incredibly sexed up outfit that would totally defeat the purpose of counselling. Because all male crew members - with a big emphasis on the " member " part - would be thinking about ripping her uniform off and banging her brains out and knowing it would be really uncomfortable. I guess the reason why they only made her kind of telephatic was that if she knew what the male crew members were thinking she couldn´t walk ten feet in the Enterprise and would never visit the bar. Speaking about the bar, if her role was to give people sage advice why did Guinan do basically the same ? So while still unverified the idea of Deanna Troi not only as the ship´s cleavage but also the ship´s adult entertainment system does have its merit. On the other side we know that the holo deck was used for the same thing. It´s so confusing.
Plus in a strange case of life imitating art Marina adopted an attitude that was much more in line with the original characterisation of bra - busting betazoid blow up sex doll Deanna Troy as a deepthroat addicted men milking machine with the sex drive of a nymphomanic vulcan during Pon Farr by using many well hung male guest stars like breeding stallions during insemination moth in uninhibited oral sex marathons where she made them squirt like a fire hose until they could not get it up anymore.
This naturally caused some friction with the male regular cast members who were not included in these midnight olympics especially in the episodes were Marina Sirtis decided to wear very revealing clothing.
What I could verify is that in the original draft Deanna Troy was supposed to have three breasts, Tasha Yar had an unhealthy sexual crush on Wesley Crusher and Captain Picard couldn´t help but noticing the ship´s Doctor Beverly Crusher´s natural walk resembles that of a striptease queen.
Who is constantly duking it out with vulcan sex massage addict T'Pol played by 38D - 22 - 35 pop culture cutie Jolene Blalock ( who really knows how to put the " fuck " in " science fucktion " but more about her in part two ) as hottest sexbomb in the Star Trek universe is inflatable DD Borg playmate with the big melons and a skintight bodysuit to match sexborg Sex With Nine superbly portrayed by DD Busenwunder Jeri Ryan.
Jeri´s juicy breasts were so incredibly huge - her mouthwatering measurements are 40E (!) - 22 - 36 - that they made her skintight suit darker and darker so you couldn´t see them as good but to no avail.
Seven of Nine is THE ultimate cyborg sex machine every sci fi fanboy wants to have multiple borg - gasms with since the blond sex freak is a literal sex machine who is not only built like a pornstar with Jeri Ryan's PLAYBOY Playmate Of The Year hardbody, as a cyborg she has lots of stamina and endurance and she also can take a lot of sexual punishment so you don't have to be gentle with her and can really ram it home with her. You will definitely get a lot of mileage out of this cyber sex amazon.
Somebody who immediately realized Busenwunder Jeri Ryan's pornstar potential was Star Trek : Voyager producer / showrunner Brannon Braga who had several casting couch auditions with the bigbreasted real life blow up sex doll behind closed doors until she agreed to be his sex slave.
For which she had to wear several iconic slave girl outfits from previous Star Trek shows. He completely slam - fucked her brains out six ways to Sunday dicktaming her in the worst way while relentlessly pounding her most vulnerable spot until he had moulded it to fit his cock like a glove.
Once Jeri was his submissive sex toy Brannon had the wet sex dream assume all the positions of the Kama Sutra - forwards and backwards - in steamy all night ejaculation sensation squirting sessions throughout her entire tenure on the show and completely wore his schlong out on her.
Under an agreement with the Vulcan High Command and Earths Starfleet T´Pol was placed aboard the NX - 01 Enterprise as Science and Executive Officer, serving under Captain Jonathan Archer. However the hot alien would eventually be brainwashed into " serving under " Commander Charles ' Dubya ' Tucker the Third, while under the effects of Trellium D.
A Trellium - drugged out, semi emotional vulcan love slave with great curves and a killer rack - what's not to like about that ? Her exotic sex appeal transformed Commander Tucker into Commander Fucker who had mul - t´pol orgasms thanks to the ancient forbidden vulcan sexmassages.
I know that T´Pol claimed it was something else but we all know what vulcan " body relaxation massage " really stands for. T´Pol was thirsty for Tucker´s earth meatpole because while Phlox gave her the initial idea to practice the vulcan men milking massage on Tucker's horsecock it was T´Pol who went all " Oral Kama Sutra on acid " like there's no Tomorrow.
And she was so turned on by their all night long midnight olympics sex marathon sessions that she had to use the old " it´s just for scientific reasons " schtick to relentlessly slam - bang Tucker into submission.
Not that he put up much resistance to her since he´s been whacking off to her body since their first sessions in the decontamination chamber.
Speaking of the decontamination scenes in Enterprise there are a lot of people who got in am uproar saying they were too sexed up - as if that is a bad thing - and only in the script to show off Jolene Blalock's pornstar body - which they clearly were - and that they were also very unrealistic because they would not be very effective. Well, I wonder how all these prudish Star Trek fans would have reacted if the producers of the show would have made it more realistic by substituting the decontamination chamber with a shower since that is a more effective way to prevent contamination. With the lower restrictions of the Sci Fi channel we could have had dozens of scenes with the crew members having encounters of the sexual kind and I am sure the nudity would have blown their minds.
Coming back to the decontamination chamber's main attraction T' Pol, she didn´t repeat the sex experiment after finally banging Tucker silly ( which is the first rule of every scientific research - not having wild sex......but to repeat the experiment ) but it is not know if it was because of disappointment or because she was afraid she would like it too much. And in the mirror universe he helped her out during Pon Farr.
That's one of the reasons why casting the role of T' Pol - who in the first draft was supposed to be fan favourite vulcan T' Pau from the original Star Trekseries but they had to change it because of legal rights - was so difficult. They wanted a vulcan sexbomb on the crew like the character Saavik played by Police Academy and Big Trouble In Little China's 38B - 26 - 37 Kim Catrall best known for her role on tv hit Sex And The City.
They had a casting call with hundreds of hopeful aspirants for the part which was also a cheap excuse to work their way through the entire catalogue of able bodied, young sexbombs in Hollywood during months of casting couch auditions where the horny producers got to live out all of their sexual fantasies with these hungry and ambitious Busenwunders.
Speaking of Busenwunders, after slam - banging 40E ( !!! ) - 22 - 36 sex goddess Jeri Ryan for five years showrunner / producer Brannon Braga was looking for an adequate replacement and it looked like he found one with Jolene Blalock. But I could not find any hints of him using Jolene in the same way which might stem from the fact that they clashed about how to play the character of T' Pol a lot. Brannon Braga was looking to sex up Enterprise in every possible way and to tell the truth it was the main reason for casting such an ultimate sexbomb like Jolene Blalock.
Jolene Blalock on the other hand saw her character more as a spiritual nun without any emotions and no interest in sex so she was not on board with all the changes that were made to make T' Pol more and more un - vulcan like and more of a ultimate space babe as they tried to sell her as a sex slave to a floating harem for horny aliens in the very first episode.
Which I think they still handled very tame in order to appease the Star Trek fanbase and the general audience. Because if I would have been the writer of the episode the crew of the Enterprise would have been much more delayed in their mission to rescue T' Pol by political red tape but to an even bigger extend by the vulcans being prepared to throw her under the bus to sabotage the humans very first endeavour into outer space.
This would have led to the slave traders having more time to properly indoctrinate T' Pol for her job as a high class deluxe pleasure sex slave.
That would give the producers the chance to have a few nude scenes of Jolene Blalock being bathed and groomed or at least being instructed in the art of intergalactic striptease while wearing skimpy outfits that were so scandalous that they would make Carrie Fisher's world famous slave girl outfit from Return Of The Jedi look like a nun's habit in comparison.
Now I am still undecided if I would get two wild schlong beasts from the planet Breedingstallion to tag - team her during the dicktaming sessions of have a tentacle pervert from Serialrapistan do the honors but it would be a Urotsukidoji II : Legend Of The Demon Womb level of depravation.
Speaking of depraved sex beasts hell bent on stretching out T' Pol's most vulnerable part with their giant - sized man - things, of course it would be Trip who would chance upon a drugged up, gagged, chained up and blindfolded T' Pol and he would immediately take advantage of the fact that they sent him ahead and it would take the rest of the crew at least five hours to catch up to live out all his secret sex fantasies with T' Pol.
He would start by tit - fucking the helpless vulcan sexbomb for an hour but once his dick grew to three times its normal size and became as hard as unto a thing of iron he would remove her gag and under the influence of the most potent sex drugs in the galaxy T' Pol would orally attack his huge erection with giant fervour. Which under normal circumstances would be enough to let even the most chaste and gay monk forget his vows but in this state she was even more sperm hungry than during Pon Farr and was literally trying to suck Trip's brains out - through his dick.
Around half of the time it would take the Enterprise to rendezvous with Trip's at his current position he had already ejaculated a few times so he reconfigured the chains to put T' Pol into a position where she was fixed before him with her legs stretched apart and her huge boobies hanging loose and swinging back and forth. He then started to penetrate her with powerful long strokes which got faster and deeper as they went along.
He was just about to squirt his third load when the scanners picked up his companions nearing the perimeter which left him just enough time to clean her up, dress her up with the first set of clothes he could find ( a micro sling bikini that showcased her incredible porn star body more than it concealed anything ) and get her to the extraction point quickly.
Back on board Trip would try to get T' Pol brought to his private quarters instead of sick bay to make sure there were no ill after effects ( and to erase her memory in case she remembered anything from their steamy sex marathon ) but Captain Archer would pull rank on him and have her sequestered in his cabin even if he had to bear all her sexual advances.
He would even selflessly slam - fuck T' Pol's mind out six ways to Sunday to get any traces of the drugs out of her system. Which for the audience would have been a wet sex dream cum true - pun intended - but I don't think Jolene would have agreed to the nude scenes unless the producers managed to get her plastered like a dozen horny klingon space truckers.
She also didn't like all the skimpy outfits she had to try on for Brannon Braga behind closed doors that mostly resembled sling bikinis made out of shoelaces, tiny g - strings with nipple pasties and a lot of wet t - shirts or the dirty lapdances and slutty stripteases she had to perform for him.
These session got Brannon so worked up that Jolene had to give him a double breasted deepthroat dick massage in the hopes it would prevent him from dicktaming her without mercy. Much to Jolene's chagrin she was not always successful in this endeavour so there were many times where she had to spread her legs wide and endure his sexual assault.
It seems that this stopped at some point because in the show T' Pol is changing outfits a lot and in season 3 Jolene Blalock got a new costume that showed more cleavage than ever. The writing was also ambivalent about which character T' Pol would get involved with - Archer or Tucker - although realistically speaking if there really had been a woman with the boner - inducing measurements of Jolene Blalock on the Enterprise all the male crew members ( with a big emphasis on the " member " part ) would be lining up to dicktame this alien body - especially once word got out that she turns into a crazy man devouring sex freak during Pon Farr.
When they finally settled on T' Pol and Tucker neither Jolene Blalock nor Connor Trineer thought the way they went about it made much sense and it's on public record that Jolene told Brannon Braga that he could not just substitute bad writing with more nudity. Which is probably when he decided to start the whole " let's have T' Pol give Tucker vulcan cock massages until he becomes her sextoy and then conduct sex periments with his dick "& plot which for some is the worst thing in the franchise while for others it is the breast thing that ever happened on Star Trek.
This was obviously an attempt to get around the fact that Pon Farr is only every six years as it would not be realistic that Trip would have a relationship with a woman who only has sex every six years. Granted, after an ejaculation sensation Pon Farr sex marathon with intergalactic men milking machine T' Pol any normal man would need a few years to recover but six years is a stretch for anybody. The only alternative would have been to have Trip develop a way to virtually induce Pon Farr so he could lock up T' Pol in his cabin and dicktame her into submission ( who hasn't dreamed of using her like a cheap blow up sex doll ? ) but because it could be seen as too pervy they apparently didn't want to go that way.
And while Connor Trineer liked the aspect that the relationship between Trip and T' Pol became very complicated he has gone on record that he didn't like shooting the vulcan sex massage scenes because on one side both of them were not okay with the way the characters were written and on the other side because he had developed a great friendship with Jolene Blalock after they had many private encounters behind camera.
I mean, it's one thing to spend all night going through all the positions with a born for porn sexbomb like Jolene Blalock in a private setting and a completely different thing when it is your job and you have to do it in front of the cameras with a lot of people watching you. And while I can understand it to some degree it is still very difficult to feel pity for a guy who gets paid to shoot intimate sex scenes with a nude Jolene Blalock.
