The Poisoned Pussy: An Espionage Novel (1969) by Rod Gray
My name is Eve Drum--The Lady From L.U.S.T.--the sexiest spy in the world. Anything you can do I can do better. They call me Oh Oh Sex, because sex is my favorite weapon, but I'm just as good at Karate, safe-cracking, knife throwing, scuba diving--you name it. Don't tangle with me: I have a license to kill and I don't care if I use my body--or a Beretta. Swing along as I go into action against a supervillain who wants to wreck N.A.T.O. and heat up the Cold War to the flash point. It will blow your mind.
The Lady from L.U.S.T. was a series of erotic spy stories about Eve Drum, aka Agent Oh Oh Sex, who worked for the League of Undercover Spies and Terrorists (L.U.S.T.). Rod Gray was a penname for DC Comics writer Gardner Fox, who created co-characters such as Barbara Gordon and the Flash.
The BPCL has other books in The Lady from L.U.S.T. series:
The Lady from L.U.S.T. (1967)
Lay Me Odds (1967)
The 69 Pleasures (1967)
South of the Bordello (1969)
The Copulation Explosion (1970)
Turned on to L.U.S.T. (1971)
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Hey Remember that one time in cs when devineaux had chased gray down to the sewers and lost him around the corner. And if he took a couple steps too close to where gray was gray wouldve murdered him. But a split second almost too late devineaux got a call and left. Do you think about that. I do.
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Do these remind anybody of a certain scene from a very early episode of Beavis and Butthead? I meant to post this on Halloween night before midnight, but noooo, more trick or treaters kept showing up at my house, apparently. Anyhow, as much as a lot of Spy vs. Spy fans would wish that Grey Spy would lose for once on account of how much they hate her, I personally don't think that would be such a good idea. Don't get me wrong; I mean, I'm not too fond of her either. I, personally, would prefer to stay true to Prohias's original concept of her being immune to the usual slapstick horror that both of the male spies endure on a regular basis, considering that he didn't want a woman to go through the male spies' usual suffering. Imagine what Prohias would think if I painted (figuratively and literally) Gray Spy in a more realistic light while still staying true to her intended concept of always gaining the upper hand over both Black Spy and White Spy. I am pretty sure that he is probably rolling in his grave right now. If you want to check out the back story behind these copies, go to the monochrome version that I posted on DeviantArt (if you can handle it).
Disclaimer: I do not condone any actions in the backstory that I had described in the monochrome copy on DA nor anything taking place in these images. Other than that, I wanted to make this whole piece of art I made to use as a message of some sort that women harassing, abusing, or violating men needs to be taken just as seriously as the other way around, despite not being as common.
I do not claim ownership of any content. Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy belongs to the defunct MAD Magazine and the late, great Antonio Prohias (who is probably rolling in his grave; which I feel really bad about). The idea for the image as a whole was inspired by Beavis and Butthead, which is owned by MTV Productions.
I hope one day we learn what happened with the Halo show. It got a lot of unfair criticism from people who didn’t watch it or wanted it to be a retread of the games (which would’ve been terrible).
The show clearly had people on board who had deep knowledge and respect for Halo and its themes, much more than many of the detractors who decried that the show “wasn’t Halo” because it had civilians and mister chief took off his helmet. One of the main characters of the show, Soren, was only ever mentioned in a single short story in an anthology book that’s not even popular among people who like the books. And I love that dude! I lost it when he showed up!
It focuses on Madrigal and the Rubble and the insurrectionist conflict there, something only brought up in a single book primarily about unimportant side characters, and yeah, it changed some details around (like making it a mostly Korean colony instead of Mexican, which I didn’t love) but like, if years ago you asked me what my ideal Halo show would be, I’d talk about the insurrectionist conflict, and the best I would realistically hope for is a “both sides bad” story, but we didn’t get that! We’re meant to root for the anarchist terrorist group!
But I say all this upfront because the show had so many baffling design choices, leaning in hard on chosen one prophecy junk with Forerunners, putting in Master Chief at all, having Master Chief have a straight sex scene. There’s a lot that wasn’t great, and I have to wonder, why?
People like to say it was just made by people who don’t care about halo but that clearly isn’t true. Was it just a case of having lots of writers on the team who all wanted different things, and thus the show came out as a patchwork of different aspects of halo poorly stitched together? Was it executives fighting with the writers and shoehorning in more easily marketable material like Master Chief and the sex scene and whatnot?
Was it a mix of a lot of factors? Probably! Will we ever really know? Probably not! But I can’t help but wonder at why this happened, and what else could’ve been