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Talk Dirty
A man, a woman, alone in a deserted shipyard sometime in the future. They start playing their sexual games - but suddenly things take a turn for the serious.
"Talk Dirty is hardcore filth. True smut, total porn. It is very powerful stuff... Talk Dirty works best when it examines the different ways in which men and women express sexual aggression. Sexual fires - and fantasties - ignite when there's war between the sexes." -Futuresex
Night. Somewhere, somewhen. the man and the woman circle one another, like jungle cats. A weighted word here, a furtive touch there - any moment now, one of them might go too far.
They have no past. They have no future. They have no names - at least as far as this game is concerned. Because if their names were revealed, they would break the rules of the game.
Then that rule gets broken. And the other rules follow...
Internationally acclaimed German cartoonist Matthias Schultheiss (creator of the science fiction series Bell's Theorem and the futuristic super-hero comic Propellerman) brings his dark, brooding vision to the world of X-rated comics with Talk Dirty, a story of obsession and fulfillment.
In the end, the questions Which one is the predator? Which one is the victim? And what role will the third player take? Talk Dirty is a hardcore psychodrama that will leave the hardiest reader emotionally drained.
This edition of Talk Dirty presents, for the first time anywhere, a selection of full-color pages from Schultheiss's earliest draft of the book.
"Talk Dirty is hardcore filth. True smut, total porn. It is very powerful stuff... Talk Dirty works best when it examines the different ways in which men and women express sexual aggression. Sexual fires - and fantasties - ignite when there's war between the sexes." -Futuresex
Night. Somewhere, somewhen. the man and the woman circle one another, like jungle cats. A weighted word here, a furtive touch there - any moment now, one of them might go too far.
They have no past. They have no future. They have no names - at least as far as this game is concerned. Because if their names were revealed, they would break the rules of the game.
Then that rule gets broken. And the other rules follow...
Internationally acclaimed German cartoonist Matthias Schultheiss (creator of the science fiction series Bell's Theorem and the futuristic super-hero comic Propellerman) brings his dark, brooding vision to the world of X-rated comics with Talk Dirty, a story of obsession and fulfillment.
In the end, the questions Which one is the predator? Which one is the victim? And what role will the third player take? Talk Dirty is a hardcore psychodrama that will leave the hardiest reader emotionally drained.
This edition of Talk Dirty presents, for the first time anywhere, a selection of full-color pages from Schultheiss's earliest draft of the book.
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86 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 1997
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December 27, 2019
1st edition = January 1994
This is bubble free but still very sequential. The di-and-trialogues are beside the panels on the right for the vast majority and squared within them at the end. The last six pages are an addition that's in color and silent.
Erotically "dirty" but not filthy- very sexy without sleazy. It's all about the words which narrate the INTENSE mind-games and desperately specified URGENT desires. I guess I have the responsibility to say that this isn't for those into seminal (ha!) style sex- this will take you around-the-block and for MANY it will be quite a shock!
The scenes are aesthetically profound because he uses grimy and disorganized construction site backgrounds in aggressive weather to starkly contrast the bodies in motion.
It's times like this that I wish I knew the mechanics and specifics of art. How does he do that shading that creates depth in all the nuanced points and curves of the body? If it was against lines I could understand but they only exist on the characters where they are separated from something/one else.
They are both much more attractive than you see on the cover. She's realistically STUNNING with glamorous hair that you only see in movies from or about the mid 1900s. They are both straight out of the Liz Taylor in black and white era. Interestingly, he's too good-looking to be of this world- if I was "into" men I'm sure he'd give me a reltney. His imperfections are even funny- his nipples vanish* and reappear and he has very high and wide pubic hair with sideburns (going down to his coe-hones) that's shockingly thick for only one panel that disappears completely in the span of the few seconds until you next see his rig! I'm going to assume he did that for the laugh because it worked on me.
*Even on the cover which means it's on purpose. Why do SO many male artists do that so often?
This is bubble free but still very sequential. The di-and-trialogues are beside the panels on the right for the vast majority and squared within them at the end. The last six pages are an addition that's in color and silent.
Erotically "dirty" but not filthy- very sexy without sleazy. It's all about the words which narrate the INTENSE mind-games and desperately specified URGENT desires. I guess I have the responsibility to say that this isn't for those into seminal (ha!) style sex- this will take you around-the-block and for MANY it will be quite a shock!
The scenes are aesthetically profound because he uses grimy and disorganized construction site backgrounds in aggressive weather to starkly contrast the bodies in motion.
It's times like this that I wish I knew the mechanics and specifics of art. How does he do that shading that creates depth in all the nuanced points and curves of the body? If it was against lines I could understand but they only exist on the characters where they are separated from something/one else.
They are both much more attractive than you see on the cover. She's realistically STUNNING with glamorous hair that you only see in movies from or about the mid 1900s. They are both straight out of the Liz Taylor in black and white era. Interestingly, he's too good-looking to be of this world- if I was "into" men I'm sure he'd give me a reltney. His imperfections are even funny- his nipples vanish* and reappear and he has very high and wide pubic hair with sideburns (going down to his coe-hones) that's shockingly thick for only one panel that disappears completely in the span of the few seconds until you next see his rig! I'm going to assume he did that for the laugh because it worked on me.
*Even on the cover which means it's on purpose. Why do SO many male artists do that so often?
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