Andrew Roller Presents
C O M I C  U P D A T E
FREE!    Internet Edition    May 10, 1995

F L A S H  R E V I E W !
Of a Brand New Comic!
by Andrew Roller

         Rawlins, The Last Tough Cop #2, $1.50.  Digest.  Text-only, with 
illustrations.  Perry Lake, Miracle Comics, 6167-B, Alamo Way, Paradise, 
CA 95969.
         Review:  ÒYeah, it was a weird one.  Some devil-worshipping old bat 
molests three little kids, and twenty years later, she drives Ôem to 
suicide,Ó reads the self-introspective dialogue by the main character (pg. 
15).  The name of this issueÕs story is ÒNursery Rhymes From Hell.Ó  
         The letters section contains a review of a previous issue:  ÒThe 
undead demon:  We donÕt get to see it go around killing people we donÕt 
care about.  [Then it] gets shot--once--[and] falls through a window and 
dies.Ó  I thought this was an excellent interpretation of modern T.V. 
story-plotting.  You see the bad guy, and then you see the awful things he 
does.  But, often, he does those awful things to characters you donÕt care 
about.  Have you ever watched a movie where you can tell, right from the 
beginning, which people are only there to die?  I can.  Often itÕs the ÒoddÓ 
person.  The black guy, the mexican, the fat woman.  
         Thankfully, Perry Lake is not averse to printing criticism about his 
work.  And the digest-sized book is a nice package overall.  Excellent 
cover, excellent (and humorous) back cover, with decent Òsmall pressÓ 
illustrations inside.  Unfortunately, the inside illustrations are 
sometimes poorly reproduced.  But a good buy, especially if youÕre fond of 
illustrated Sherlock Holmes books.  (I am.)

HOT OFF THE PRESS!
by holy joe

The Joe Boob Report, May 1, 1995, free.  8 1/2Ó x 11Ó.  Joe Boob Briggs, 
P.O. Box 2002, Dallas, TX 75221.
         Review:  The Movie ChannelÕs Joe Boob Briggs weighs in with another 
one of his nifty movie-oriented newsletters.  Specifically he is interested 
in drive-in movies.  You can even get free movies in the mail from Joe 
Boob.  Just write to him and tell him you want to join one of his movie 
reviewing committees.  Our own Andrew Roller was a member of the 
Science Fiction movie reviewing committee.  But he finally quit because it 
was interfering too much with his masturbating.  (Why he didnÕt join the 
Porno reviewing committee is beyond me--Joe Boob has one of those too.)
         Page four of this issue features one of RollerÕs all-time favorite 
masturbation goddesses-Julie K. Smith.  (I even got hard over this photo, 
and IÕm supposed to be a pedophile!)  Julie Strain, on page 6, isnÕt bad 
either.  P.D. Wilson got a strain in his pecker looking at her.  For the ladies 
there is ÒRowdyÓ Roddy Piper showing off his handsome chest on page 7.  
(Of course Jim Corrigan noticed this one.  When heÕs not busy mailing out 
hardcopies of Comic Update heÕs hard at work campaigning for political 
office in Atlanta.)
         This issue features movie reviews by the Horror Committee.  Films 
featuring George C. Scott, Val Kilmer (of The Doors), and other such 
nonsense are reviewed.  (Including Sorority Girls and The Creature From 
Hell.)  I just got a VHS copy of Pretty Baby, featuring Brooke Shields, from 
the Sun Coast Video Store, so I wonÕt have time for anything else for 
awhile.  (You know, about a 12-year-old prostitute.  Since it was made in 
the late 70Õs, when I was a youngster, I consider this movie to be about 
TRADITIONAL VALUES!  IÕm not into all this Reagan-era conservative shit.  
The Reagan-era (and Bush and Clinton) can be summed up in one word:  NO!  
As in, ÒI said NO!Ó and ÒWhat part of NO donÕt you understand?Ó  I wrote 
back to my supervisor (after I quit):  ÒWhat part of FUCK YOU donÕt you 
understand?Ó
         Getting back to Joe Boob, we have more boobs on display on page 12, 
followed by a picture of Joe BoobÕs wife on page 14, modelling (what 
else?) a ÒJoe BoobÓ t-shirt.  Finally there is a contest for jerk-off 
nerdyboys who wasted their entire life watching C-grade movies, and have 
now nothing better to do in life than answer quiz questions about C-grade 
movies.
         All in all, a good issue, and after all, ÒItÕs like a drug.  The first one 
is always free,Ó as Joe Boob says.  So get it right away.  Now we here at 
Comic Update intend on keeping you perpetually stoned, so of course ours 
is ALWAYS free!  By the way, you can send our publisher e-mail.  He is one 
of those ÒnewbieÓ perverts on America Online.  He doesnÕt know what his 
e-mail address is, but if you can find America Online he is ÒROLLER 666Ó 
(without the quote marks, of course.)  Remember to leave a space between 
the word Roller and the letters 666.  You can send him all kinds of 
feminist diatribes, fill up his mailbox with F.B.I. offers for child 
pornography, or whatever.  With luck heÕll accidentally delete it all 
without even reading it.
         Now I have been a naughty boy, in that this HOT OFF THE PRESS 
section is supposed to be a listing section, for zines we donÕt have time to 
review.  (However, if we have the money, weÕll forward them to Jim 
Corrigan for a full review, which will be published later.)  So let me 
actually list some zines here, without reviewing them:

R.I.P. Speed Co. #7, free.  (There is no price listed.  Since this is the 
Internet, if I get something without a price on it, I am going to list it as 
being free.)  Digest.  R.I.P. Speed Co., Box 55, Harrisonboro, VA 22801.

The Nihilist Glee Club #12, $1.00.  Digest.  The Nihilist Glee Club, P.O. Box 
57287, Jackson Station, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8P 4X1.

Cabaret #16, $2.00.  Digest.  Theresa Fleming, P.O. Box 1528, Ypsilanti, MI 
48197.

         Now the three zines listed above are not actually Òhot off the pressÓ 
since most zines these days go to Jim Corrigan.  I would not mind having 
some zines to list in Comic Update, provided I donÕt get swamped with 
them.  (I donÕt want to quit the small press like Mike Gunderloy did.)  So, if 
you want your zine in the Òhot off the pressÓ section, send it to:  holy joe, 
c/o Andrew Roller, 5960 S. Land Park Dr-253, Sacramento, CA 95822.  If 
you want Jim Corrigan to review your zine, send him a copy also.  His 
address is listed at the very end of this transmission.

C O M I C  U P D A T E  S T O R I E S
There and Not Back Again
by Andrew Roller

         You do crazy things when you're in high school.  Of course, I hadn't 
always been in high school.  I'd ruled the world once, and been quite 
ruthless at it too.  And then I'd gotten old.  "Man's fate," they called it.  
Except I was a female.  
         "All my possessions for just a moment more," Queen Victoria said 
on her deathbed.  She lost both.  I was luckier.  There was a new 
technology out, "Mind Meld."  Put your brain on a hard disk.  Die.  Get a 
new body and download your mind into it.  
         I made the arrangements.  Copied my brain into Earth's central 
computer.  Made a back-up copy, just in case.  Kept continually 
uploading my latest thoughts as they occurred, right 'til the moment of 
death.  And then I waited.
         When I awoke I was in the body of a young girl.  I'd waited a long 
time, though I didn't know it then.  Death had been blackness, an utter 
void.  Like anesthesia during surgery.  You wake up and ask when they're 
going to start the operation.  They tell you it's already over.  You did 
fine.  Except nobody was there to tell me that.
         They'd gone on without me, the bastards.  A man had become 
Emperor of the Earth in my place.  And then, well, I knew it would 
happen.  They managed to blow themselves up.  
         Centuries passed.  Earth was a cinder, little more.  But there were 
other universes, other Earths.  Heisenberg, you know.  A girl slipped 
through from one of them.  In her world the scientific tradition of the 
ancient Ionians had not ended with Plato recommending the burning of 
their books.  She was but 15, yet her scientific games did not consist 
of building a crystal radio or playing with a chemistry set.  She slipped 
through universes to alternate worlds.  
         Her name was Mandy.  She brought her cat, Tabitha.  Together they 
set about exploring me.  Well, they didn't know it was me.  It was 
Earth's central computer, quite aged and decrepit now.  And less 
powerful than the PC Mandy played with at home.  
         I was fixed up, rewired, all in the name of play, not science.  And 
did you know, dear reader, that I've lied to you?  Don't be mad at me.  I 
figured it would help you understand, that's all.  You see, I didn't wake 
up inside the girl.  Oh, no.  I woke up inside the computer.  And I wanted 
out.
         Mandy woke me.  I found her playing with me.  (With the computer, 
you know, except that I was all that was left of the computer's mind.  
Me and about 10 trillion useless facts and figures.)  It took me awhile 
to figure out what was going on.  Mandy left, came back another day.  
Left and came back several times, in fact.  Whenever she had some free 
time and nothing better to do.  
         I hadn't risen to Empress of Earth for nothing, you know.  I'd been 
much more of a bitch than, say, Hillary Clinton.  More on the level of 
Ghengis Khan.  Mandy had what I wanted, pure and simple.  A body, and a 
young one at that.  I guess I decided to play the ultimate child molester, 
and I have no regrets.  I lured her into sitting down with me, into 
getting wired up with me.  
         "The better to know you, my dear," I told her.  She was 
scientifically smart but, otherwise, no match for an Empress.  I invaded 
her mind and wiped it clean.  I replaced it with my own.
         Well, as you can imagine, cats don't match men for company.  And 
Tabitha knew, in a catlike way, that I'd done something to her Mandy.  I 
was stuck on a dead Earth, and my only way "back" to Mandy's home had 
been erased along with her mind.  Stuck on a dead planet with a cat that 
hated me.  Not a great life.  But a step up from being imprisoned inside 
a failing computer.  For awhile, anyway.  For about, well, 9 1/2 years, 
to be exact.  Tabitha grew old, but she still hated me.  I grew older.  
And I got very frustrated and very bored.
         I'd stare out of the perimeter viewfinder at what was left of 
Earth.  It looked like it had been hit by a meteor shower.  I couldn't go 
out, the radiation, even after all this time, was still too bad.  I was 
trapped in a slightly larger space than the computer itself had 
comprised.  I could sit, I could replicate food and eat it, and clean 
water came from somewhere, through a filter or something.  And my 
shit went out to join the other radioactive waste, through the toilet.  
At last I decided I was better off where I'd been.  The place needed a 
few modifications, that was all.
         I spiffed up the computer and created an old-time version of 
Earth inside it.  An Earth like the twentieth century Earth.  With cotton 
candy and Duran Duran and girls who talked for hours on the phone, 
about nothing at all.  Myst writ large.
         And then I stepped into my world.  But I wasn't there to take over 
the place.  After all, I'd created it.  I was its God.  No, I wanted to be 
the girl I'd never been.  Not the girl in the ruins between the first 
global nuclear war and the second.  Not the girl who'd killed to survive 
and outwitted bandits.  I wanted to be an inguene.  Carefree, silly, 
frivolous.  A twentieth century girl.  American, post-modern, Happy 
Days happy.  And to do that I'd have to erase my own mind as 
thoroughly as I'd erased Mandy's.  
         Are you reading this?  I'm gone now, you know.  Well, I'm 
somewhere inside the computer, actually.  I've programmed it to write 
out my life for me, as it happens.  Of course, I'll think I'm really living 
it.  A real girl in a real world.  I don't know what has happened to me in 
there, but the computer will make a record.
         Yes, you'll see a corpse by the computer.  You see, without a mind 
to feed it, to take care of it, Mandy's body died.  It lay there, 
lobotomized, until her cat found it smelling rather....tasty.  
         Oh yes, I know, it sounds cruel, stealing a girl's body from her and 
then letting it die.  But I was lonely.  I wanted company.  And the real 
Earth, the one outside the computer, could never give me that.  Not, at 
least, until you came along.  But maybe you never did.  For all I know, no 
one will ever read this.  Or, if they do, perhaps it will be a million 
years from now...however long this computer will last.    
         You do crazy things when you're in high school.  One day in gym 
class, sitting there in our little shorts and tees on the bleachers, a 
magazine got passed around.  Swingers, it was called.  Furtively, 
laughingly, it was passed from girl to girl as we waited for our 
instructor, Ms. Lafrump, to arrive.  When she did come in the magazine 
was in the hands of my friend Janet, and she hastily stuffed it into my 
gym bag.
         I had forgotten I even had the magazine when I sat unpacking my 
gym bag that evening, plopped on my bed in my nightshirt, about to turn 
in.  Suddenly, there it was, Swingers.  The child in me reached out to 
drop it disdainfully into my Mickey Mouse wastebasket.  But then, 
inexplicably, I drew it back.  It was the teenager, the woman developing 
within me that pulled it back, I know now.
         I opened the magazine.  I flipped through it with a mixture of awe 
and disgust.  I'd never seen anything like this before, never wanted to.  
There were amateur photos of scantily dressed partiers, articles on 
swinger etiquette, part one of something excerpted from a book by 
someone named the Marquis de Sade.  And then I came upon an ad page, 
the personals.  One in particular struck my eye:  FEMALE OR SELECT 
couple.  Let's play."  There was an address, no name.  
 
         On a lark I fetched my notepad and responded to their ad.  I mailed 
it the next day, never thinking they'd write back.  I used a fake name, of 
course.  Somewhere in the back of my mind I was playing the role of 
female detective, going undercover to break up a ring of criminal sexual 
conspirators.  At least the child in me was, the 9-year-old nymph who 
was as sure of herself and her place in the world as a lizard sunning on 
a rock.  Little did I know that a kind of schizophrenia was developing 
within me.  There was a sexy young lady taking over my body, 
flowering, choking out the impish little girl as one might a weed.
         To my shock they wrote back.  Inside their letter was their 
photograph.  The woman was young, in her 20's.  The man, like some 
tuxedoed stud right out of my favorite soap opera, was gorgeous, in his 
40's.  Successful in appearance, athletic, rugged, with a gleam in his 
handsome eye that showed he got what he wanted in life.  I was in love 
with him from the moment I laid eyes on the photo.  At least the woman 
in me was.  The little girl in me seemed to have suddenly taken a 
vacation.  Perhaps she was in the Mickey Mouse wastebasket.
         I knew I must meet them, somehow.  Against my better 
judgement.  Surely nothing would come of this, I reassured myself.  I 
wrote out a response and mailed it.  Surely nothing.
         And then it came.  Another letter, another photo, them with their 
dog, Atlas.  Charming.  They had a cute dog.  It broke down my 
resistance.  Made them human, approachable.  I wrote back, agreeing to 
meet them the following Wednesday at the Chez L'Appraisal, a French 
restaurant in town.  Now all I had to do was figure out how to get there.
         I settled on a cab, finally, as the best way.  I told my mother on 
the way out of the house that I was going to the library.  Well, I knew 
I'd be learning something this afternoon, so it's not like it was a total 
lie.  First hand knowledge is always better than second hand knowledge, 
right?         
         I thought the couple would dismiss me out-of-hand as soon as 
they found out how young I was.  But they treated me very politely.  I 
sat across from them at a little table, hardly ever taking my eyes off 
the man, Robert.  His wife, Juliette, eventually dropped the small talk 
and asked me a series of questions about my sexuality.  (We were in a 
private booth.)  I made up some answers and they listened attentively, 
seriously.  In fact I'd ever only had one boyfriend, and our relationship 
hadn't lasted much beyond his popping of my cherry.
         Dinner ended with them inviting me to stay at their place the 
following weekend.  I could hardly believe my ears.  Was this mature, 
sexually experienced couple really asking me, a naive high school 
sophomore, to join them?  They said they had just built a new Jacuzzi, 
a really plush one with inlaid tiles and hanging plants and stained 
glass, and wanted someone to enjoy it with them.  What could I say?  
The woman in me was not about to pass up a chance to get to know 
Robert better, and I accepted, even as the little girl in me began looking 
for a way not to go.
         A sleepover served as the perfect excuse that got me out of the 
house Friday evening.  This was a special, "cram 'til you drop" study 
session sleepover, I explained to my parents, knowing that would keep 
them from calling.  I wasn't sure yet, I said, whose house it would be 
at, as I rushed out the door.  Only later would I realize I'd forgotten my 
Little Mermaid nightshirt, my de rigueur costume on all my previous 
overnighters.  Well, I was growing up, right?  But I worried that, seeing 
it hanging on the back of my bedroom door, my mother would become 
suspicious.
         A stranger shadowed me at the park.  Some guy in his 30's, 
obvious nerd, probably wrote porno novels or something for a living.  
Thankfully my hosts showed up in their car (a Lamborghini!) and 
whisked me out of the pervert's view.  We chatted gaily on the ride over 
to their place, about nothing in particular, soon arriving in a plush 
suburb, lined with leafy trees and with 24-hour security to warn away 
burglars and child molesters.
         Inside I was given a place to put my things, a small armoire in the 
dayroom.  Then I drifted out to the kitchen and we shared a snack of 
wine and cheese and little sandwiches.  Bob popped a romantic spy 
thriller into their VHS and we sat watching awhile.  I grew restless and 
went to the kitchen for something else to eat.  Juliette joined me and 
suggested I might want to check out their spa on my own, to see if I 
liked it.  They'd shown me around their house a bit but a phone call for 
Bob had interrupted the tour before I got to see the spa.  I told Juliette 
I'd go check it out now.  I was glad she was letting me have a look at it 
myself.  It was hard to believe we might do anything more than just 
talk and be friends.  Even the little girl inside me had slipped into 
cruise control.
         The spa took my breath away.  It was bathed in the light of a 
rising moon that shafted its rays through stained glass windows.  Half 
the spa was enclosed by three walls.  The remainder was outdoors, 
under the stars.  A folding screen could be drawn across to close off 
the inside portion.  Tropical plants hung about, dripping with exotic 
flowers in full bloom.  In a wooden bowl fresh oranges and pears 
waited.  Three towels were piled neatly on a carved hardwood bench 
next to the spa.  I found a switch and flipped it and the Jacuzzi bubbled 
to life.  
         I gazed at the luxurious tile-lined tub awhile, mesmerized.  This 
was a far cry from some 16-year-old's slumber party.  Slowly I 
undressed, intending to keep on my bra and panties, then just my 
panties, finally finding that I'd stripped nude.  Thoughtfully I drew a 
bow from my discarded blouse and tied up my loose hair in back, to keep 
it above my shoulders. 
         With a hesitant step, the little girl in me screaming but well-
gagged, I stepped into the spa.  I waded across it, savoring the feel of 
the silky water along my calves.  This was heaven.  I picked up a little 
brass pitcher, examined it.  A century must have passed since it was 
made.  It intrigued me.  We'd been making pitchers and vases with clay 
in art class.  I dipped it into the bubbling spa water, filling it.  Just 
then the door to the spa opened.  I turned, utterly innocent, not even 
remembering that I was in a house with other people in it, that 
belonged to someone else.  
         Juliette stepped in, followed by Bob.  They faced me.  I was in a 
corner of the spa and I lifted a knee up, resting it on the side of the tub, 
as if to get out, as if caught in a swimming pool for "residents only" 
where I didn't live.  Then they smiled.  Bob smiled, broadly, 
reassuringly.  I still had the brass pitcher in my hand and instinctively 
I lifted it and poured its contents out slowly over my breasts.  I gasped 
slightly as the hot water hit them, then smiled, almost blushing.
         Both Bob and Juliette were still clothed in the elegant, casual 
attire they'd met me in.  Bob sat down on the bench next to the spa.  He 
ordered me to get out and come over to him.  Wetly I rose and, with 
Juliette lightly taking me by the arm, padded the three steps to where 
he sat.  Mincing steps, small and dainty as the bow in my hair.  As if 
being called to sit on the knee of an uncle.
         Except Bob wanted me over his knee, and promptly had me lying 
dripping on my bare stomach across his thighs.  My still dry bottom 
wobbled, soft cheeks upturned, under his possessive gaze.  
         SPLAT!  Robert's palm came down juicily on my naked tushy, 
making me yelp.  Neither the woman nor the little girl knew what was 
going on now, but I felt my clitty harden.  SPLAT!  Another butt-
reddening blow, and I shivered.  Robert savored my ass cheeks a 
moment, watching them blush, then spanked me three more times.  In a 
mirror I hadn't noticed before I caught sight of Juliette undressing.  She 
shed her top and skirt to reveal the body of a sex magazine pin-up.  
Robert lifted his hand then and, bare-breasted, she leaned forward and 
kissed the peak of each of my quivering ass cheeks.  Her stiffening 
nipples brushed the backs of my thighs.  
         Robert let me stand then, and I did, briskly rubbing my hiney.  He 
told me to go over to a small cabinet and come back with what was in 
the top drawer.  I knew not what else to do, he was clothed and I was 
naked, he was huge and muscular and I was frail, with my only large 
asset being my breasts.  I padded over to the cabinet, found to my 
surprise a strange stick-like thing there.  I'd seen it somewhere before.  
It had a loop of leather at one end.  It reminded me of riding class, 
horsey lessons when I was 10-years-old.  Wasn't it called, like, a 
"riding crop?"  What was it doing here?  Bob and Juliette didn't own any 
horses.
         I trotted back to Robert, holding the crop up stiffly.  I let its loop 
touch my lips as I wondered at its purpose.  My tongue tasted the 
leather loop idly, as if by taste I would divine its purpose.  Robert took 
the crop from my small hand and said I was a good girl.  He said their 
bed would be the most comfortable place to try out our new toy, that 
we could jump in the spa afterward.  He led me nakedly, still wet in 
front, from the room before I could even think of a word of protest.  
Juliette followed with sensuous footsteps.
         As I caught sight of their big brass bed I suddenly felt 
recalcitrant.  But Robert was strong and had me kneed up onto it before 
I could even mount a resistance.  Juliette drew out my hands and tied 
my wrists with silk stockings to the brass-poled headboard.  She 
worked swiftly, as if having tied countless girls before me.  A gag was 
slipped over my mouth then, just as I was about to ask what was going 
to happen to me.  
         SWAACK!  The crop bit into my bare hiney and I leapt like a fish.  I 
was kneeling, utterly naked, upon the crisp white sheets, with my legs 
unbound.  I skittered about on the bed, lifting first one knee awkwardly 
and then the other, as if to waggle my stung tushy all through the 
cooling air of the room.  Fearfully I looked over my shoulder at Robert 
as he prepared to give me another stroke.
         SWAACK!  Again I jumped, ass flailing, tugging futilely at the 
bonds which held my wrists.  SWAAK!  SWAAK!  SWAAK!  Tears welled in 
my eyes as I suffered under a rain of rapid blows.  I must have looked 
like an unbroken colt in a rodeo to Bob and Juliette as I bucked upon the 
bed.  
         Just as quickly they now untied me, and Juliette drew me out 
upon the bed and lay against me, snuggling.  I felt her breasts squish 
against mine and the thorns of her nipples stung my mammaries, my 
stiff teats poking back at her bubbies.  Her pussy curls interlaced 
sweetly with mine.  We rubbed against each other.  Her hands cupped my 
hot bottom and she said admiringly to Robert how wonderfully warm I 
felt back there.  She kissed me, mouth open, and I responded 
unthinkingly.  Our tongues extended, met, probed each other's oral 
orifice, licking the teeth and reaching for the tonsils.  Robert undressed 
and got in bed behind me.  He could not snuggle so easily for his big 
prick was in the way.  Carefully, after bumping my ass with it, he 
wedged it between the tops of my squeezing thighs.  He was so long he 
actually lodged his head twixt Juliette's legs.  I cooed at this 
marvelous intruder's appearance on the scene.  Even the little girl in me 
was not protesting now.  I forgot my tears in the loving entanglement 
of our bodies.  A warm glow began to suffuse my nether cheeks and I 
wriggled them against Robert's rough-skinned, hairy stomach.
         Robert luxuriated against me awhile, then pulled his manhood 
from between my possessive legs and separated the cheeks of my ass.  I 
gasped as he did this, and a moment later had my suspicions confirmed 
as he introduced the slit on the tip of his penis to my anus.  My anal 
dimple.  Pre-cum oozed from him to anoint my nether hole.  Teasingly 
he pushed at me, testing my tightness.  Juliette helpfully lifted one of 
my legs up into the air, spreading me behind.  Robert pushed harder, 
pre-cum oiling his intended route.  My sphincter held valiantly, not 
admitting him at all.  He complimented my tightness.
         "Let us to the spa then," Juliette suggested hopefully, realizing 
Bob would never last if he got himself up inside my virginal ass.  
Reluctantly Bob agreed and we rose nakedly from the bed, his manhood 
still throbbingly intact.  We would enjoy such a remarkable companion 
in the spa, I guessed then, soaping it and yanking on it and being 
teasingly prodded by it as we soaked in the bubbles.  There was no use 
firing it off early, when it could be such a source of fun and delight.  I 
knew then that Juliette was not a lesbian, and was as mesmerized as I 
was at being continually threatened by an intrusive male penis.  
         Hand in hand we strolled with our big, hard companion pointing 
the way.  We slithered into the spa and soon found ourselves on either 
side of Robert.  He poured wine into glasses for us, sitting between us, 
and we poured the wine into his mouth, then had him do the same for us.  
We fed each other the fruit.  It was delicious, better than any fruit I'd 
ever tasted.  I wondered if it wasn't just the way I was feeling, 
suddenly so adult, so mature, not a girl in a Little Mermaid nightie 
anymore.  Even my bottom felt good.
         For a long time we splashed and touched and kissed, savoring 
every inch of each other's bodies.  My tits were weighed by both 
Juliette and Robert, my legs pulled apart, my cunt fondled.  For my part 
I gave Robert's balls an exacting inspection, feeling them beneath the 
water and then making him sit on the edge of the spa.  I rubbed his 
penis against my cheek, like a dog admiring its master, and sucked it, 
carefully, so as not to bring him off.  I toyed with Juliette's nipples, 
got between her legs and tweaked her tiny clitoris.  There was no 
thought, little talking, just bodies responding to other bodies.  
Gradually we knew that the time was approaching for us to fuck.  Our 
eyes became more serious and our breath grew hotter.  I trusted in my 
companions to know what to do with me when the time came.  
         Finally Robert announced that he could bear our beauty no longer 
without paying tribute to it.  He eased us both out of the spa and 
towelled us off.  Lovely as ever, sparkling whitely in our most intimate 
places with lean, lightly tanned arms and legs, our hair loosely pinned, 
we let Robert escort us back to the bedroom.  We climbed upon the bed 
with definite intentions now, no longer sporting nakedly, Juliette 
bringing along a tube of KY jelly.  Earnestly she and I greased up 
Robert's prong, not caring anymore whether we were pleasuring him or 
not, only mindful in the backs of our minds that he must not spill 
prematurely.  Robert shuddered with the obvious delight of a man whose 
cock has been claimed by loving females. 
         When we finished, Juliette told me to lie back and spread my legs.  
Then she slipped a pillow under my hips, elevating them.  She stretched 
out on top of me, kissed me, and spread her own legs.  "Take whichever 
of us you prefer," Juliette said over her shoulder to Bob.  "Or try us both 
at once."  Then she turned her face to mine and, clasping my cheeks 
between her palms, commenced kissing me avidly upon the mouth.
         We made love repeatedly that night, until I could take no more.  
The rest of the weekend we lounged about their house, having sex when 
we felt like it, enjoying each other's company, mostly naked the whole 
time.  The next weekend we went to a party.  My parents thought I'd 
gotten serious about my studies at last, and thanked God for it.  And I 
had.  Except I was studying the sorts of things they did in the bedroom 
to each other, during all those years I'd been content to sleep with my 
teddy bear.
         The party was at a large mansion on the edge of town.  We were 
met by a woman who was dressed unflinchingly in nothing but a corset.  
She did have on stiletto heels, and an ornate dog collar with fringe 
hanging down in the direction of her bosoms, but that was all.  The 
corset itself failed to cover her breasts, which loomed above it like 
balloons at a fair.  Delicate and elegant, with gorgeous blonde hair piled 
fashionably atop her head, she was the very picture of feminine 
refinement.  I admired her superb beauty and the way she freely 
displayed her pussy, blonde as the hair on her head and each curl 
carefully groomed.  Bare legged, bare-hipped, bare bottomed, she played 
the role of hostess as gracefully as any society lady.  She led us into a 
roomful of people, the men mostly dressed, the women in various 
states of undress.
         I was introduced to everyone and allowed to settle in a bit.  I was 
just starting to relax when our hostess said it was time for me to 
begin my initiation.  Shiveringly, the crowd following, I was taken to 
the punishment chamber.  It proved more ominous than I had imagined.  
Every type of device thought up by man to hurt his fellows was present 
there.  Elke, our hostess, told me to undress and enjoy the spa for a few 
moments.  It was then that I noticed, bubbling away in a corner, a small 
Jacuzzi.  There were towels there and fruit and a scrub brush and 
sponge for washing.  Before I could decide how to handle myself Elke 
was helping me out of my blouse and skirt.  With a flourish she drew 
down my panties, saying I had a fine bottom and must not be afraid to 
show it.  I told her it wasn't the showing of it that most concerned me, 
with a meaningful glance at a rack of whips.
         "Tch, darling, you shall learn to take those.  All girls must.  That 
is no reason to cover your beautiful hiney.  Now get in the tub and enjoy 
yourself."  She gave me a kind of slap/pat on the ass and sent me off.
         I slipped out of my heels and stepped into the Jacuzzi.  I stood, 
then bent over.  After fingering the water to test it, swirling the 
bubbles, I filled a little gold pitcher that waited by the side of the tub.  
As I sensed was desired, I erected myself, still dry, turned toward my 
audience of guests and poured the water in the pitcher over my boobies.  
It was hot, I gasped.  But then I valiantly refilled the pitcher and 
brought it up to wet myself again.  The water ran down over me, the 
swell of my tummy, the curls of my pussy, and streamed back into the 
spa from between my legs.  I spread them wider and gave myself 
another tantalizing wet down.  
         They beckoned me from the spa then, and I went to them, nude 
save for a little bow in my hair which served to tie it up, to keep it off 
my back where it might have gotten wet.  They dried my front lovingly 
with a towel and then fetched my heels and had me slip back into them.
         Elke took my hand and led me over to a rack.  She said this would 
help me in my school report on medieval Europe.  She had me back up to 
it and then strapped me securely to it with my wrists spread above my 
head, arms achingly straight.  My legs were put into a bold vee and tied 
off also, sticking straight out, towards the floor.  Elke tickled my 
cunny with her fingers, and I noticed that my hips were lewdly 
elevated, thrust forward, by some obscene lump pressing forthrightly 
into my bottom from the rack.  My clit, already hard, became unbearably 
so under Elke's caresses.  She then took what looked to me like 
something that belonged on a clothesline and pressed it deeply into the 
flesh of my cunt.  I jolted as it suddenly snapped shut--right on my 
clitoris!  
         "Aaaauuugh!"  I screamed, not so much from pain (of which there 
was some) but from utter, absolute fright.  I'd never even dreamed of 
such a thing being done to a girl.  My nipples seemed to respond by 
sticking out even farther, as if to make up for my clipped clit's 
imprisonment.  Elke got two more clothesline-like pins and closed them 
over my nipples also.  New shrieks from me, a chuckling smile from 
Elke, who doubtless began her own career in love in a similar manner.
         "You should have them pierced," she suggested teasingly.  
Fearfully I wondered if she included my clitoris in that perverse 
recommendation.
         Years later, clitty and nipples long since pierced, I realize that 
meeting Elke was the beginning of the end for me.  She did drugs, you 
see, and sold them too.  I realized that someone who stayed away from 
using the stuff, and merely sold it, could make a lot more than she was 
making.  So I sold drugs for awhile, for her, to my high school friends, 
and then moved on to bigger game.  I got my whole neighborhood using 
drugs.  One night I was forced to kill a cop to keep from being caught.  
And then, having tasted blood, I decided to kill Elke.
         The "business" really boomed with Elke out of the way.  I 
incorporated, drew in "associates," and became more and more callous 
about the lives I was dealing with.  I guess it all started with the 
bondage stuff.  Bondage is sort of callous, in its own way, and I grew 
callous using it to satisfy myself sexually.  I went from wayward 
innocent to hardened domme.  And, of course, I went way beyond 
anything Elke and her friends had ever contemplated.  Once I killed a 
girl just to keep her quiet.  Another time I went too far, playing sex 
games with a boy.  He died.  But I considered myself to be basically a 
decent person.  Within certain parameters, of course.  I wanted to be on 
top.  And, once I got there, I insisted on staying there.  I dreamed of 
ruling the world.  A silly dream, I know, but I persisted in it even after 
I got caught.
         Yes, the DEA and the police finally ended my life as a drug kingpin.  
The courts sentenced me to the electric chair.  I appealed, lost.  I'm 
waiting now for them to come for me.  These thoughts are my last.  
Somehow I feel this place, this planet, was made for me.  For me to 
rule it.  I think of myself as a God sometimes.  Foolish, I know, to think 
such thoughts.  You get kind of insane when you're waiting to die.  To be 
put to death.  'Til death do us part.  I hope someone reads this.  Perhaps 
they'll just throw it away, unread.  Throw it out with the empty 
Domino's pizza box that my last meal came in.  
         I wish sometimes the whole world would just blow the fuck up.  
Maybe it could blow up and leave me as the sole survivor.  That would 
be cool, I guess.  I'd be God and ruler then.  No one would cross me.  Ha.  
Ha.  That was funny.  I hear them coming now.  
         You do crazy things when you're in high school.  I wish to God that 
Swingers mag hadn't ended up in my gym bag.  Maybe I wouldn't be here 
now, waiting to die.  Surely I wouldn't have met Robert, Juliette, Elke.  
I'd have been a normal girl with a normal life.  A real girl, not the 
school drug salesman.
         I wrote a story but I guess no one will read it.  I rule the Earth, 
but then I die.  But I "mind meld" myself into a computer.  It's pretty 
cool, except I get stuck inside the thing and can't get out.  Until a girl 
comes along, a girl named Mandy.  With a cat.  I forget the cat's name.  
It doesn't matter.  The cat never liked me anyway.  At least not in the 
story.  There's a prison cat that likes me.  Name of Max.  But the one in 
my story doesn't like me.  The warden is unlocking my cell now.  
Trouble with the key.  The guy is an incompetent.  Well, he says to put 
down my pen.  

C O M I C  U P D A T E  N E W S

MAIL FRAUD OPERATOR TERRORIZES SMALL PRESS
Exclusive to Comic Update
by Andrew Roller

         "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Deal With Ian Shires," should be printed 
above any publication Ian puts out.  Let me tell you my own personal 
story of dealing with this idiot.  Please note that he and I are members 
of the same club, the Small Press League, dedicated to excellence in 
publishing.  Yet he rips off even me, my associates in Comic Update, 
and God only knows who else.
         On July 28, 1993 I sent check no. 2410, in the amount of $4.00, to 
Ian Shires, 5621 Flowerdale Ave. #3, Cleveland, Ohio 44144-4109.  
(This is his most recent address.  He keeps moving.  I wonder why?  
Read on.)  Ian cashed my check on August 25, 1993.  
         Eventually I received in the mail Self Publisher (SP!) #21, 
whose price was $2.50.  This left an account balance in my account of 
$1.50.  Sure enough, Ian wrote "Account Balance:  $1.50" on my copy of 
Self Publisher #21.
         Included with Self Publisher #21 was a Pop Chart.  By filling 
this out, I was entitled to a free advertisement in the next issue of 
Self Publisher.  I filled out Ian's Pop Chart form and included a 
business card for my free ad.  
         In the summer of 1994 Ian sent out a huge mailing to 2,000 
people begging them to buy ads in the next issue of Self Publisher.  A 
business card sized ad in the next issue was to cost $1.50.
         I wrote to Ian and asked him to apply the $1.50 remaining in my 
"Account Balance" to the purchase of a business card sized ad.
         On January 9, 1995 I received Self Publisher #22.  (Yes, it took 
Ian that long to get the zine out.)  My free ad (for filling out the Pop 
Chart) was not published.  The ad which I had paid for was not 
published.
         If you buy an ad, it is Ian's policy to send you a free copy of Self 
Publisher.  However, Ian billed me for Self Publisher instead, 
writing "End of Sub! [Subscription]" on my copy of Self Publisher #22.  
Fact is, I never had a subscription to Self Publisher.  I have always put 
my money into an "account balance" with Ian and used the money to buy 
ads in Self Publisher.  The zine then arrives for free.
         So, dear reader, you see the peril in dealing with Ian Shires.  You 
fill out his Pop Chart to get a free ad, and he gives you no free ad.  (I 
wouldn't even fill out his fucking Pop Chart if it wasn't for the free ad.)  
You send him money, in response to one of his mailings, and he keeps 
your money and doesn't print your paid for ad.  He uses the money 
instead to send you his fucking zine, which I never wanted.  I wanted 
my ad printed in the zine.  The zine itself is a piece of shit, except 
that other people who might buy my books happen to read it.  Hence, I 
wish to advertise to them.
         Some of you might be thinking, "Well, Roller, were your ads 
offensive?"  No.  They simply listed the price and address of Comic 
Update, a zine which I hope to induce people to buy.  (Actually it is 
free for a stamp.  Perhaps this is why Ian failed to print the ad.  He 
charges money for his zine.  Mine is free.)
         However, the travesty known as Ian Shires does not end here.  No, 
no, we are dealing with a big time criminal here.  Ian's policy is to 
review all the zines which are sent to him.  I sent him tons of zines 
during the past two years.  Guess what?  He didn't review any of my 
zines.  He also didn't review lots of other people's zines.  In his 
introduction to SP! #22's review section he apologizes.  In his "About 
Next Issue" flier (included with SP! #22) he writes:  "If your mailing 
label says 'No Account Status' that means I have books that you have 
published and will be reviewing them in [the] next issue."  Guess what?  
Even though Ian has many unreviewed books from me, he didn't write 
"No Account Status" on my copy of SP! #22.  
         So, dear reader, as you can see, even if you send many books to Ian 
to be reviewed, on many occasions, over a period of two years, he 
pretends he doesn't have any of your books.  He doesn't review them in 
his current issue and he pretends he doesn't have any on hand to review 
in his next issue.
         Do you want to send money to someone who is just going to steal 
it?  Do you want to fill out his Pop Chart fliers and then get nothing in 
return?  Do you want to send books to Ian for review and then not get 
reviewed?  If so, Ian Shires is your man.  I imagine he assumes he is 
running a welfare agency for himself.  We send him our money and he 
spends it.  After all, Ian has always insisted on operating a "for profit" 
small press company.  The return is 100% if you steal your customers' 
money.
         Let me say that I have traditionally considered Ian a friend and 
enjoyed reading his publications.  True, the most recent issues of SP! 
have come out on filthy newsprint.  And they are always difficult to 
read, as Ian has no layout ability whatsoever, and (when he types) he 
types completely across the page instead of using columns.  I have no 
grudge, no "axe to grind" against Ian.  However, if I send someone money 
I don't expect him to steal it.  
         I am in mortal fear of having any further dealings with Ian Shires.  
I know that there are others who have ceased dealing with Ian.  He did 
not send me a copy of his Pop Chart for the next issue of SP!.  Well, 
Ian, don't bother.  I wouldn't fill one out anyway, since you would only 
steal the information off of it and then not give me the free ad I am 
supposed to get for filling it out.
         No, I will not have any more of my money stolen by Ian Shires.  I 
will not participate in any of his Pop Chart schemes.  I will not send 
him any books for review.  Hail and farewell, Ian!  You can shove your 
filthy newsprint crap into someone else's mailbox from now on.  
Perhaps YOURS, dear reader!

C O M I C  U P D A T E  L E T T E R S
presented by holy joe

SHIRES CONFESSES!

         "How very humorous," writes Ian Shires, 5621 Flowerdale #3, 
Cleveland, OH 44144.  "Hey Ñ did you ever stop to think, 'Maybe I should 
call Ian and ask what happened to my ad?'  The phone number is on most 
fliers and in the issue.  The answering machine is only months old and 
working quite well.  I'd have gotten back to you.  I don't have a current 
phone number for you or I'd be calling right now.
         "People make mistakes.  I'll admit to mine, if you'll admit to 
yours.  First mistake you made is above.  Second:  It is impossible that 
you sent check #2410 to 5621 Flowerdale #3 on July 28, 1993.  I was 
living at 3006 Saratoga Avenue at that time, I moved into this current 
place on October 1st, 1994.  [Obviously, I sent it to the Saratoga 
address.  Ed.]  It's highly likely I cashed your check, when you say I did, 
and I will honor the two blocks of advertising I currently owe you, and 
as you say I 'ripped you off' for.  Please send in your camera ready ad.  
If you wish to wait a few weeks, a flier announcing SP! #24's ad rates 
and deadline will be out in the mail.  I plan to publish it (#24) in March.  
There will be a Pop Chart ballot Ñ fill it out and you'll get 3 blocks, 
plus I'll mail the issue to you when [it comes] out.  
         [SP!] #23 was printed in mid-November, a number of copies did 
not get mailed until late December, set aside by accident in the 
Christmass [sic] rush.  Obviously yours was among those.  As for why 
your ad did not appear, you mention you sent a business card.  Being 
larger than the 21/2" x 1" ad display size for a single block, and the 
fact you wanted two blocks Ñ and a business card is too wide for that 
too...I set it aside for adjustment.  [I cut up the business card and 
fitted it right into your Pop Chart ad block.  Ed.]  As the deadline came 
and went, I was suddenly moving.  I found a cheaper place and it was 
too good to pass up, being larger than where I was living for more.  
Things got crazy, and a lot of things fell through the cracks.  That's 
what happened to your ad.  I'm happy to make good on that.  And I 
apologize.
         However, I am miffed at your flier.  I would apreciate [sic] an 
apology and retraction to anyone you sent it to.  I may not be the most 
organized and proficient businessman in existance [sic] Ñ but I'm not a 
crook and I've given more people free ads and publicity than I can count.  
I'm not particularly concerned about the negative impact your flier may 
make considering your credibility, but perhaps it's wisest for us both 
to not react in such knee-jerk spasms like we did in '88 or so, anymore.  
I'm not out to get you.  I'll print your ads within my stated policy.  And 
by the way, #24's flier will have a new review policy in effect.  Watch 
for it."
         [Well, I apologize for sicing this letter of yours, but as you can 
see, you only had three spelling errors.  Much improvement over your 
letters in the 80's.  By the way, I see that both you and O.J. Simpson 
have dyslexia.  Is there anything else you have in common?  Just 
wondering.  I look forward to participating in future SP!s, which I 
still like very much, even if the ink does get all over my hands.  Ed.]

         "Andy Ñ Your endless feud with Iam Shure couldn't possibly be as 
interesting as you both seem to think it is," writes Randy H. (for "Hugh") 
Crawford, 911 Park St. S.W., Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6241.  
         "You're right, though Ñ he's sitting on several unreviewed Nice Day 
pubs and yet I fell for his 'next time I review everything' line again 
and sent him even more free books Ñ which he didn't review.  At least 
he ran my free 1" ad.
         "By the way, since everyone knows you're an F.B.I. agent out to 
entrap child pornographers, maybe you can answer this hypothetical 
question for me:  If a 42-year-old guy happened to have a 26-year-old 
polaroid snapshot of his own erection (taken by himself when he was 
16) Ñ would that count as child pornography?
         "Anyway Ñ thanx for the free copy of Comic Update #174.
         "Here's a free copy of one of my most recent comics Ñ Becky.  I 
think you might enjoy it.  I guess 18 is kinda OLD for you, but hey Ñ 
she's a real person and she actually was 18 when she asked me to draw 
her comic.  Heck, she's nearly 20 now Ñ sigh, they grow old so fast."

         "Hi Andrew!  Thanks for Update #162!  Good to hear from you!  
Hope you get your money back from Ian Shires!" writes Matt Feazell, 
3867 Bristow, Detroit MI 48212.  [Matt, what are you doing living in 
Detroit?!  Ed.]

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Subj:  Comic Update, May 10, 1995