Tales of Gnosis College

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Right!

"No jokes, please. This is science in action".

—Professor Corwin (admonishing one of his experimental subjects)

Tales of Gnosis College is an adults-only webcomic written by the pseudonymous ?Dr. Faustus? and illustrated by Lon Ryden. It is set in the eponymous fictional midwestern liberal arts college. At Gnosis, the reckless, oversexed students are taught by a faculty rich in mad scientists, many of whom regard the students as convenient fodder for their experiments, or, as the case often is, sexperiments. In between (and sometimes through) bizarre sex scenes the comic also implicitly explores philosophical themes related to ethics and personal identity.

The first two volumes of Tales of Gnosis College, The Apsinthion Protocol and Study Abroad have been published in full. The third volume, Progress in Research. is being published now.

The webcomic, which posts on average a new page every day, is published under a [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Creative Commons license]] and made available for free at Dr. Faustus?s website.

=== Tales of Gnosis College contains examples of: 

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made of the stuff.

  • Author Appeal: Dr. Faustus unabashedly admits that mad science is

fetish fuel for him, while Lon Ryden sure likes drawing naked women.

and an unfortunate Russian girl who speaks her own language.

  • Blob Monster: There is a bonus CG illustration sequence called

[[http://eroticmadscience.com/bespoke-art-gallery/#googirl1 Goo Girl Genesis]] in which a female undergraduate is turned into one of these as an experiment.

lure female undergraduates into weird experiments the involve changing their state of matter or intimate contact with tentacle beasts, but he draws the line at using is technology to make duplicates of people, even when that would be handy. He?s also intensely loyal to his own subordinate.

of the female characters at the end, and Dr. Faustus has also commissioned and published a variety of art connected with his Gnosis College stories here.

Three-ending pin-up of The Apsinthion Protocol to complain about the fact that her character didn't even get a name or a dialog line in the preceding chapter.

point.

end of The Apsinthion Protocol when Anwei is threatened by Senator Madder.

    • There's also an imagined panel of huge tentacles attacking an

aircraft carrier.

does the name "Joseph Corwin."

FBI custody.]]

College is located, appears to be just an ordinary small American city.

  • The Exile: [[spoiler:Corwin and Anwei and forced to flee the country

after things go pear-shaped in Corwin's laboratory.]]

  • FBI Agent: Macneil and Smith.
  • Flash Back: The Victorian-era pendant story "The Strange Case of Millie

Newman."

as if it had been printed as well as set in 1888.

  • For Science!: Probably Joseph Corwin's primary motivation, and that of

other characters as well.

these through the use of drugs and hypnosis.

reads aloud a passage from Procopius in the original Greek. Millie scandalizes him by showing that she understands what he is saying. Corwin uses Greek to label things in his lab, and a prominent statue on campus has a line from Pindar (γένοι᾽ οἷος ἐσσὶ μαθών) on its pedestal.

means of disposing of politically embarrassing evidence.

for a time as a voluntary member the Sultan of Pazar's harem.

where Iris Brockman takes a job.

  • I'm Melting: ...and I love it! An effect of Corwin's Apsinthion

Device.

necessarily for those for whom it was intended to be humiliating]].

    • Tondelayo and Cleo in Study Abroad undergo one that is horrific.
  • Insecurity System: It is surprisingly easy for Ashley to break into

Professor Corwin's laboratory.

[[spoiler:Moira and Nanetta learn something very important from it, though.]]

example, his colleague Dr. Emil Strangeways much less so.

Apsinthion Protocol.

college...

happens to work this way.

  • Naughty Nuns: Next door to Gnosis College there is an all-women's

institution called St. Mary Magdalene College, run by nuns with some peculiar ideas about discipline.

around his laboratory on a regular basis, but he's focused on science.

most of the other younger-than-middle-aged adults in her culture.

overthrow the hated dictator of Monte Blanco appears to consist of two people, one of whom is mute.

present day Gnosis College fictional universe ever saves anyone from mad-science danger. Indeed, much of the time they're oblivious to the existence of dangers.

within a few minutes of their Freaky Friday Flip.

her identity in spite of her strange experiences. Some of her friends don't seem quite so sure, though.

student named Cassandra executes one of these, which involves arranging for herself to be Swallowed Whole by a mysterious, barely-seen creature. She implies in a final statement that she has a very serious reason for doing this, although it isn't specified for the readership.

and Ashley is another.

  • Shout Out: Ashley has a poster of Irma Vep from the 1915 silent serial

Les Vampires on her dorm-room wall, and Moira is often shown reading serious contemporary works of philosophy that have actually been published [[http://books.google.com/books?id=8UiAH1jHeDMC&lpg=PP 1&dq=inauthor [[http://books.google.com/books?id=uiJfsQwd-HAC&lpg=PP 1&dq=intitle in the real world.

main Gnosis College library.

  • Spy Catsuit: Ashley wears one of these to break into Professor Corwin's

laboratory.

well.]]

  • Steampunk: "The Strange Case of Millie Newman," especially Professor

Hoffmann's lab.

  • Strawman U: Largely averted. Gnosis is a successful college whose

students come from a variety of backgrounds and points of view.

beginnings of which only become evident at the end of Volume 1.]]

other utilities under the Gnosis campus and its environs. Willie looks it up on old architectural plans and, with Aloysius's help, uses it to sneak into the neighboring Catholic women's college. This stunt leads to a fraught encounter with Naughty Nuns.

for starters.

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