Mind Control Comics Forum

This is a board for the discussion of general topics that are (a) about the comics on the site, but (b) not about a particular title. Themes you like, character types you dislike, whatever strikes your fancy!

Hard to tell the themes based on the screens for March comics, but in my head they look like there going to make a good month. Also are videos slowing down. At least the full major production videos?

Nope, one a month as always. February was an odd month, in that the shoot fell later in the month.

I removed a post today that talked about real-life mind control. I know that the poster didn't mean anything bad by it, but because of the sensitive nature of the fetish (especially to those of us in a commercial setting), we have to be very careful about not talking about real-life things here. Thanks for understanding.

I just removed another post of this nature. Again, I'm sure the poster meant nothing bad by it, but please consider discussion of real-life matters surrounding this kind of thing are off-limits.

Perhaps you should update the forum rules, where was nothing about posting real life situations restrictions before.  My posting was hardly a how to step by step guide, but more of a what if analytical possibilities.    

And now you know.

What are some determing factors in deciding on if a comic becomes a series or just remains, in tv terms, a pilot that wasn't picked up? I'm relatively new, a year or so, I've been able to able to read the archieves all the way to current. So, I've read several that I realize are specifically one-shots, but several were open ended that seemed to indicate they were meant to be a series. I've read some stories that didn't really do it for me, one reason or another, so I'm sure that plays into it if you get a large number of subscribers not really digging a story why continue it, kind of thinking. But I'm sure other factors are involved too. I guess I'm just curious about what's behind the curtain kind of thing. Thanks!

That's a good question! There's no one governing factor, but here are a few, not in order:

• The availability of the artist. Sometimes, the artist disappears or isn't available to us anymore, and it doesn't make sense to continue the series with another artist.
• My inspiration. Sometimes, the initial idea just didn't pan out very well, and I'm having trouble doing a proper next issue.
• Audience reaction. If the reaction is cool, I might push the title down the queue.

The new site will let subscribers mark titles as "favorites", and we're planning to use that to decide what series to continue and which to let go, so that will be a good way of making the last one a bit more concrete.

When is the new site expected to be up approximately?

A matter of weeks!

You posted a new story entitled "Seriously?", however the pages don't seem to load. What's going on here?

Your membership expired.

Why is the calendar no showing forth coming issues any more ? I used to enjoy anticipating up coming releases ie looking to see if any of my favorite stories were being updated now you can only use it to check if you have missed anything.

That is a fair question, and it has a surprising answer:

We get more subscribers when we do not announce titles far in advance.

I realize this is completely counterintuitive, but after 10 years of being in business and nearly three years on the new system, it's unmistakable. I'm sure everyone reading this is about to type, "But that's definitely not true of me! I love to see what is coming a month in advance!" And I am sure it is true for you, gentle reader, but in aggregate, it's very clear.

"Surprise me with your hot smut all up in my face!" - The MCC Gestalt

It makes sense to me.  If you're a potential subscriber with an interest in some specific comic or set of comics, and you know that none of them are going to be published in the upcoming month, then you won't subscribe for that month.  But if you don't know what's going to be published in the upcoming month, some of those people will subscribe 'just in case', because there might be something of interest to them.

As a friend of mine likes to put it, "My single data point can beat up your single data point." The aggregate only lies if you make it lie.

I would have to say that in the past I have budgeted for a new 3-month subscription based on the upcoming schedule, if I've let my subscription lapse...

buuuuuut...whenever I am considering letting it lapse for a bit to devote my porn budget elsewhere for a bit, a title seems to show up right as my subscription is about to expire that I've been waiting for, and all I can think is "Well played, Daphne".  She knows what she is doing :D

I have been a subscriber for the last 5 years and I understand the need to attract new blood but surely that has to be offset by the needs of your regulars. I for one miss the monthly calendar updates so I can plan my logging on and which helps me avoid those stories I have no interest in viewing.

Also some of the stories are repetitious, people just hypnotizing all and sundry with no aim in sight other than hypnotizing someone else. It would make more sense to target individuals eg a guy cuckolds those men who have in his opinion wronged him in some way or another. Can we also have some variation in breast size not everyone is into balloon size breasts.

Daphne I refer to your reply of 6 June 2017 heading "My Inspiration" in which you allude to what some might call writer's block, which is not surprising given that you appear to instigate all of the stories, yet, you have various artists on whom you can call for these stories but appear to have no back up to help you when you run out of ideas, perhaps you should give some thought to this as the last thing we need is for you is to burn out. I know you are not afraid to change artist during a story, the one that springs to mind is "The Persuader" the difference between issue 1 and issue 2 is night and day, so why not writer unless MCC is a one man/woman affair.

Pretty much is.

10. Years.  :o

Claremont used to keep a large number of pokers in the fire. When he'd finish one story line, he'd go through his fireplace, jiggle a few to see if they were hot enough, move as few closer to the hottest spot and pull out the one he figured was ready to go. And then he'd go. There's an advantage to having many stories; if you block on one, you're probably not blocked on all of them.

The downside is I haven't been able to sell Daphne on a story idea for a couple years now.

Daphne I think I understand the pressure you must be under to produce a weekly fix for all of your subscribers. It seems to me you have too many irons in the fire that you are in fact dimming the fire by spreading yourself too thinly,sorry for the mixed metaphors, but there is so much going on with bi-weekly stories etc. that it must be difficult to give ones full attention to them all. Perhaps you could list those unfinished stories that for what ever reason you cannot see your way to finishing them.

Stories are in one of three statuses, which are listed on the title page:

On-going: More issues are expected.
Hiatus: Do not expect a new issue soon.
Completed: It's finished its run.

I'll bite: where is this, exactly? I don't see this on the title page of each individual title, and I don't see it on an issue page either. The forum has The Long Box, though.

Right now, "completed" and "active" aren't distinguished: they both say "xxx issues" on the title page (on the left-hand side, in the area below the cover). Titles that are on hiatus say "on hiatus" there (see, for example: https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/green_sign/ (https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/green_sign/)).

Ah, I see. Not a major need, but I think it would be nice if the completed runs said "Complete at XXX issues" or something.

Oh, wait, it does that already; check out: https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/beyond_rubies/ (https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/beyond_rubies/).

Nice!

I must be a bit on the thick side but "Green Sign" shows #2 on the top RHS of the cover page and no indication of whether it would be continued whereas "Bearing Gifts" had the number on the top LHS and no indication of continuation and yet went on for a few episodes before evolving into "Found Objects" with the number on the top RHS of the cover with still no TBC on the final panel. I do accept that you do indicate when a story is finished but not always sometimes you have to assume it is finished as with "Free Cable" the last panel showing all the females involved in the story. I suppose that is where you got the idea for members bonus featuring "The girls of xxxx" gives you a breather and saves you having to come up with yet another story. So let me see if I have this straight. If a story has a hash No it is to be continued at some point in the future whether it has TBC on last panel or not, if it has no number it is a one off and if it has a number, irrespective of where it is on the cover and reaches some sort of conclusion it is a finished story. Have I missed anything out ?

I believe so:

(https://daphnesfantasies.com/mcc/misc/on-hiatus-indication.png)

Well Daphne, the copy I downloaded, I tend to download stories that interest me, does not show anything below the copyright line but the first panel of the story November 7, 1887. So why did the download not show this or was the "Hiatus" part added at a date after my download 2/2/15 ? If this is the case can you list those stories which are in abeyance ?

I am looking at another story "Beautiful Creatures" which when downloaded did not have any indication at time of download showing "Single Issue" and when downloaded now still does not show this logo. Does this mean it is a one off ie a dead story, which in my opinion, had the makings of a great idea and may have fitted you BH scenario, or does it mean this is the first issue and you cannot decide whether it is on hiatus or not.

Perhaps the answer is not to give a "#number" to the issue of a new story until you are certain you can at least come up with some sort of continuation.

Don't Get me wrong I love MCC it's just I get frustrated at being titillated and then thwarted, cock-teasers you got to love them, then I suppose it's a bit like getting writer's block, it comes and goes. 

It's not burned into the actual images. It's on the website, as we've described. It wouldn't make sense to add it to the artwork, since titles can go off on and onto hiatus.

At this point, we have to politely request that you not keep harping on this topic. The information you are looking for (the current status of each title) is available on the website. We're sorry if that doesn't meet your expectations, but that's what we're going to do now and in the future.

Thank you Daphne for your courteous reply and I shall refrain from further comment on this matter as requested but I do hope this does not mean that I can not comment on other topics that may arise and be of interest to myself and other subscribers.

So one of the pin ups when I enter in the site is a girl smoking with  girls go-go in her left. This is a comics? Because I think girls who smoke are sexy and I would like to see that in one of the comics too.

Why is it that I am occasionally faced with the 18+ logo like today and not every time I enter the MCC site and how many of them are there ?

I've collected 51 of them.

This message was meant for a different board and I don't know how to delete it.

You can't. It will haunt you for eternity.

A blight on your record and a pox on your house! /s

I used to look forward to the monthly Member's Bonus story but in the last year these seem to be being replaced more and more by pinups ie "The Girls of ..." resulting in no MC story, is this likely to continue.

Also is there any chance that another type of "Thrallexa" maybe on the cards ?

I know I am going to feel silly asking this but what happened to "Rapid Instructions" as I cannot find anything refering to it being replaced by E U does this mean it may return at some point in the future.

It completed.

So far, no issues of 'Friend Request', 'Checkered Past', 'Unknown Pleasures' or 'Help' in 2021.
These are all good stories.
Can we look forward to any of these soon?
I have been looking forward to the 'Unknown Pleasures' update for almost a year (last issue 8/6/20).
Thanks

I hope I don't sound too rude, but the group of them are always moving forward on stuff. As Daphne has explained before, there are many factors. Please feel free to search the boards when other people have asked similar things. Sometimes there's a long pause between updates. Delving a little further (and again, please don't take this as intending to sound rude), there was a poll put out asking if people want less stories with more updates to them, or a broader offering of stories. So, she's already gauging the community to know what to deliver. Another example of this website looking at what the community wants would be how we get the polls asking what our favorite stories were.

Everyone has their favorites, and none of those are cancelled, so you can expect updates. We can't promise exactly when, though.

Daphne I would be interested to know what sort of time frame comes into play between you coming up with a story and the art work developed to back it up and then to actually appearing in MCC.

It would also be interesting to know if Covid has dramatically affected this process to any great degree.

One-year anniversary of the last update to "Unknown Pleasures".

Is there really a need to post this twice in different threads?

I feel that there is!

You know the more I read Forum the more I sympathize with Daphne and I am reminded of the 14th century poet John Lydgate's famous quote which I shall paraphrse "You can please some of the Members all of the time, you can please all of the Members some of the time, but you can't please all of the Members all of the time. He also said "You can't get blood from a stone". I think that says it all.

Reviewing older and more recent comics, I want to endorse Rafinha's work. Sang Froid and Friend of the Family 2 were both drawn by them, and I really like the way they depict women in general, and hypnotized women in particular.

Good stuff.

Then we have some excellent news for you in the near future.

Is there a way of showing interest in favorite comics that makes a new installment more likely to happen?

We definitely look at the number of people who have marked a title as a favorite, and (now) the rating on the title. There are no guarantees, but we do take them into account.

This is a good enough question that it deserves a longer answer.

There are four different things you can do to express your opinion of work here:

* Mark the title as a favorite.
* Give a rating to the title as a whole.
* Give a rating to a particular issue.
* Give a rating to an individual page.

The most important things that we look at are the number of people who have marked a title as a favorite, and the rating of the title as a whole. If the title only has one issue, the issue rating and the title rating are merged together.

Individual issue and page ratings are used for things like content, art, etc., rather than whether to make the title more or less common. Please do rate those, though! It's very valuable feedback, and I've used them already in thinking about what to put on the page.

There are a lot of factors that go into what titles are released when, such as the turnaround time for the artist, artist availability, etc. But the favorites and ratings do matter!

Thought of the day: do the surveys affect this at all?

The "favorite title" annual surveys? Definitely.

Speaking of surveys, how about some more of them. They are fun to participate in.