What's your all-time favorite scene and why?

[laura silverman]

Illustrated, not animated. Comics, manga, newspaper strips, etc. etc. And if you have a scan of it, even better!

[TheVampirePrincess]

too many to count.

[laura silverman]

You must have a favorite though. Or maybe a top five?

[mailbagfan]

This scene right here:

https://cicisaur.deviantart.com/art/Tex ... -711489664

You can find the rest of it on that Deviant account. It has everything I could ever want from a scene: beautiful stern eyes over a tightly drawn otm gag, excellent rope work, a damsel who uses her wits to free herself, butt shots, and one of the best examples I've seen of a "conveniently placed sharp thing".

Another favorite of mine is this scene from Buck Ryan:

https://cicisaur.deviantart.com/art/19400415-711126326

A beautiful chairtied damsel uses her wits to save herself. This kind of thing is what bondage is about, as far as I'm concerned.

Another favorite of mine is this old scene from a comic that I've forgotten the name of. This scrappy heroine is captured on a ship by the bad guys and crammed into a bag, with the intention of throwing her overboard and drowning her. Before they can throw her overboard, she escapes by cutting a hole in the sack with her nail file. Love it when writers come up with that sort of thing! Used to have a scan, but it's long gone. She had another sack scene, but not as cool.

Another scene I used to have but lost a while ago was this one about a female magician's assistant who gets kidnapped in the middle of a trick, which happens to involve getting sealed in a purple sack. Lots of nice artwork of her shrouded figure. She ends up getting saved through magical hax or something. (The illusion was real!)

Might as well make this a top five. My final slot goes to the classic Fantastic Four scene where poor invisible Sue Storm gets mummified from head to toe in newspapers, complete with the pitiful dialogue bubble: "I'm helpless! *sob* I failed!"

[laura silverman]

Thank you, Mailbag! And awesome scenes! I really, REALLY like that Tex scene. My only tiny, tiny quibble about the Buck Ryan one is that tendency to draw ropes thin, almost like string, that I don't especially care for. But it's more than made up for by the smart-mouth on that heroine. A captive heroine smart-mouthing her captor is aces in my book!

Okay, I was only planning to post my favorite scene but since you were generous enough to give a top five, I'll throw in a second scene that's in my top five/top ten.

All time favorite- Lizz getting tied up and held for ransom by Haf-and-Haf from Dick Tracy, May 1978. We're in near total agreement about what makes a great captive heroine (not sure about the butt shots though ) Love a heroine who's smart, doesn't lose her head and is determined to free herself. Not some whiny little twit, crying and waiting to be saved. What sets this scene above all the others is the really thorough, even excessive, ropework. Love the fact that it's not made for show or hentai (which I hate) but serves a practical function because the bad guy can't take any chances with her, she's so formidable. Any less rope and she'll escape for sure. And... I sorta have a thing for crisscrossed ropes around the chest.

This story, The Return of Haf-and-Haf, was collected in Dick Tracy: The Collins Casefiles, Volume 1 (I own the trade paperback) and was pretty easy to preview on Google Books until they un-previewed most of the pages just within the last year.

Here's our first look at Lizz, all trussed up pretty from May 21, 1978-



The second scene can be checked out in its entirety here-
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=18575 (the good stuff starts around pg 19)

Nyoka the Jungle Girl #37 from November, 1949. Really nice, detailed ropework (even though it's only hands and feet), great gag and a bound and determined damsel who has to save her idiot male partner even while she's tied up!

(Btw, the Nyoka comics are just chocked full of great bondage moments for our put-upon heroine. )






I can share a few other scenes but I want to give other people a chance to search theirs first.

[mailbagfan]

That Nyoka scene is great. Love those pinch situation kind of scenes.

[laura silverman]

Thanks! Here's another page of that Lizz scene-

[mailbagfan]

Love that panel of her slipping the gag off! This is why OTMs rule. :-)