Like an old black-and-white silent film in comic form. You have to infer everything from body language and a few “mood bubbles” (hearts, crosses, dollar signs, etc.). This comic is fun, if somewhat hard to understand in the few parts where there is something approaching a serious plot, due to the lack of actual dialogue. Timesunion: “ Interview With Local Creator Jess Fink“ It’s also a surprisingly tender tale, one where everyone, from artificial men to cuckolded husbands, deserves to find heart-pounding, screw-on-the-lab-table love.” (Source: io9)Ĭomic Tools: “ Interview with: Jess Fink” There’s plenty of humor, but it’s humor that reinforces, rather than detracts from, our regularly scheduled titillations. There are sly inventions, with naughty patent illustrations: the Cunnilingua Nasum (which elicits chuckles, then delighted silence from our sultry heroine), the Extendo Limbo, the Vibratus Fingum. Fink has great fun imagining all the ways in which Chester might please Pricilla. Let me be clear, Chester 5000 is a pornographic comic. All seems going to plan until Pricilla’s feelings for the robotic Chester prove not merely sexual, but romantic as well. So, logically, he uses his pseudovictorian scientist superpowers to create the ultimate husbandly gift: a walking (but not talking) robot with the ability and the will to bed his wife ad infinitum. The wife (referred to in the comic’s notes as Pricilla) repeatedly outmatches her scientist husband’s libido, leaving her frustrated and him exhausted. Told in wordless panels, Chester 5000 XYV (NSFW, obviously), opens on a young Victorian couple enjoying their marital relations, one party more than the other. “Jess Fink’s webcomic Chester 5000 XYV is a pornographic sexbot tale with a twist: a Victorian gentleman builds a robot to satisfy his sexually voracious wife, but wife and well-endowed automaton fall deeply (and, of course, passionately) in love. When Fink is delivering information more straightforwardly - distant dinners, arguments - they straighten out into a squat six-panel layout.” (Source: The Comics Journal) For example, when Chester and Pricilla make love out-of-doors, the panels have arboreal flourishes. During the sex scenes, the panels curve with the action, “organic” - sometimes literally. Drawn with a brush pen, washed in gray (with a slight pink/purple tone for the Web-comic), the interior of the 6 3/4” x 7 3/4” hardcover is a study in curves: the curves of breasts, vulvas, penises, stocking-clad calves, tendrils of hair, Chester’s sleekly domed head. In between these complications are sex scenes, with new attachments for Chester (with their own splash pages) and new partners to mix things up (yep, there’s girl on girl: never leave porn without it). Pricilla and Chester fall in love complications ensue. It helps that Fink balances plot and sex scenes deftly: in Chester 5000 XYV, an inventor inadvertently creates the perfect sex robot, Chester, for his sexually voracious wife, Pricilla, when he becomes too busy attend to her needs. It has enough gadgets to entice the steampunk crowd, enough heat (tempered by romance) to seduce the yaoi crowd, enough sex-positivity for the feminist crowd, and enough craft for any “but girls can’t drrraawwwww” naysayers. “Jess Fink’s “erotic, robotic Victorian romance” Chester 5000 XYV, an ongoing Web comic that’s recently been collected into a graphic novel by Top Shelf, is utterly of the zeitgeist.
This series features extended sequences of nudity and sexuality. However, Chester is more than the sum of his parts. He has many useful features and tries very hard to please. Chester 5000 is an erotic comic set in a Victorian/Edwardian past, generally in the late 1800′s to early 1900′s.Ĭhester is the brilliant creation of a very talented Scientist and Engineer.