Author's Notes:

This strip is intentionally raunchy. A market for stuff like this actually existed in 1954. I'll go to the opposite extreme when the Comic Code kicks in for 1955.

Lady wrestlers of the 1950s might have wrestled according to script. But they at least trained to wrestle, not just flop around on a mat and look pretty. This strip will of course assume they fought for real.

The Powernaut looks more and more like Dean Martin to me. In Superhuman World 2011, I begin to think Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis got their big break in 1946 doing the first big-budget Powernaut movie featuring Le Resistant. (accent missing on purpose) I'm still deciding about Dean Martin Powernaut movies of the 1950s, but I'm guessing "Powernaut on Venus in 3-D" nearly wrecked his career. Let's see what it does for mine. Fortunately, I have a day job.

Speaking of 3-D: I know the early 1950s are famous for innovative comics. I therefore figure they might occasionaly go for cartoons across panel borders.

I know newspaper comic strips of the 1940s and 1950s are about twice this big. But bubblegum strips weren't. Anyone remember Bazooka Joe? So I've kept the strip in modern size.

This strip explores Venus. But not in detail. 1950s Venus is of course swampy but habitable. In the 1990s retcon, Venus will have one swampy habitable bio-dome, plus lots of boiling sulphur clouds. I've at least tried to make the Venus backgrounds sulphur-colored. And the water of course is green, because who knows what's growing in it.

At one point, I'd thought the strip was already headed over the top. And that was before I'd considered either the hot oily Venusian atmosphere, or spanking. Paradoxically, spanking reins it in for the modern audience but puts it right over the top for the 1950s. But at least in this comic, the women get a chance to spank the men too.

I could have gone into much more detail about the spankings. But that would not have fit 1954. Though that year did have Dean Martin, Bettie Page, and a certain musical film about kidnapping women, it would have been culture shock to put them all together for more than one strip. I already suspect people think I take 1954 pop culture way too seriously.

I'm still learning to let the art tell the story. As a writer, this is culture shock. But as an artist with limited panel space, I learn quickly.

(signed) Scott Eiler, 19 Feb 2012.