www.the-agencies.com presents The Agencies #17

[Oblesklk]

The Agencies #17 is now available for sale!

To see prior issues of The Agencies, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

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After taking a couple months off, we're back in the swing of things, ready to release another installment of our flagship comic. This is a big year for The Agencies. In July, The Agencies will be 10 years old! I never thought the comic series would come this far, but here we are. We have some neat stuff planned this year, all of which we'll reveal over time. The first announcement is the following:

In celebration of 10 years of The Agencies, Agency Publishing LLC is now giving its customers discounts on larger orders! All you need to do is order at least $25 of our comics and the discounts will be automatically applied as you check out. These discounts can be as much as 25% off your entire order!

And we're now accepting Paypal on all orders. Good stuff.

Starting with The Agencies #17, we have decided to put together the artistic dream team for our flagship comic. Javier will continue to do pencils/inks as he has for several issues now, and Patricia will move over as lead colorist on the series. She has proven herself a true master of the art, and the pairing has turned out some amazing art in their first issue working together. Patricia has colored issues of Tickle Magnet and Agencies: Frontiers so we are really excited at the prospect of putting her on our #1 title.

The attached cover for The Agencies #17 shows the two primary villains for this story arc: The Tickler (left) and Karma (right). They are after Agent Starlight's little sister Tiffany, and will stop at nothing to get the redhead in their clutches. When we left off the last issues (issue #16), we saw that Cat divulged everything she knew about Tiffany's whereabouts, Shroud failed to take on the power of a fully trained agent, and Karma/The Tickler were confident they would have Tiffany any second now.

Things are grim for our poor, beleaguered Agents. They lost one of their own in the line of duty (Agent Succubus, issue 13). Karma's forces now assault the city from all angles, forcing them on the defensive, and Miss Rachel Ghost is still in Karma's notorious dungeons (issue 10). Is there any ray of hope? Stay tuned to the series and find out...

In summary, this issue has:

• 12 interior color pages
• Includes a cover and sexy pinup of Agent Starlight
• Issue offered in hyperlinked PDF format
• Pencils/Inks by Javier
• Colors by Tricia Leonardo
• Written/Directed by Oblesklk and Jonathan Essex
• F/F and MF/F tickling
• Features all upper body tickling
• Features butt tickling
• Depicts breast tickling
• Depicts public humiliation
• Depicts great balance between tickle torture and erotic display
• Shows combat between an agent and Karma/The Tickler as they are in pursuit of Tiffany, their great prize
• Costs just $12.95 !

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[Oblesklk]

Here are the two production sheets for the cover, the left showing loose pencils, while the right side is really just a quick sketch of the placement of the characters.

 

[PQfingers]

Great artwork

 

[milagros317]

Great cover art. Thanks for sharing it here.

 

[buttontickler05]

Looks like this'll be nice, as usual.

 

[Oblesklk]

Great artwork

Thanks!

Great cover art. Thanks for sharing it here.

No, thank you milagros.

Looks like this'll be nice, as usual.

There may even be a short something-something for you in there.

We'll post more about this issue in the coming week!

 

[buttontickler05]

There may even be a short something-something for you in there.

We'll post more about this issue in the coming week!

Cool, I'll be waiting for it.

 

[Oblesklk]

Pinup for The Agencies #17

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Here is the pinup for The Agencies #17, our upcoming release. This is the first pinup with pairing Javier (pencils/inks) and Patricia (colors) and we really couldn't be happier with the results. They truly do excellent work.

This pinup is a nice little implied (M/F) scene between Agent Starlight and her boyfriend Kedrick whose callsign is Agent Spectre.

To see the many giggles, laughs, and tickles created by these, and many other talented artists, check out our tickle torture comic book website www.the-agencies.com.

 

[charlie61]

when is the new comics of the Agencies ? i'm waiting ^^

 

[Oblesklk]

when is the new comics of the Agencies ? i'm waiting ^^

We're having technical difficulties. Isn't that a wonderful non-answer?

Maybe not. More specifically, there's a new format in which we wanted to offer our products, starting with The Agencies #17. However, we're having difficulties getting the files hosted in a timely manner, so a May release was premature. Sorry about that. I'm working on it right now to see what kind of workaround options I have.

 

[TickleFur]

We're having technical difficulties. Isn't that a wonderful non-answer?

Maybe not. More specifically, there's a new format in which we wanted to offer our products, starting with The Agencies #17. However, we're having difficulties getting the files hosted in a timely manner, so a May release was premature. Sorry about that. I'm working on it right now to see what kind of workaround options I have.

Should have just stuck to the regular format. Like the old saying goes: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Oblesklk]

Should have just stuck to the regular format. Like the old saying goes: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I should absolutely pay attention to that adage more than I have over the years, it would certainly have saved me quite a bit of cash on migraine medicine!

Unfortunately my instincts to continuously improve what we do and how we do it override my business sense to just find a nice, comfortable margin friendly rut and ride it into the sunset.

There is a silver lining to this cloud though. I was able to find an acceptable workaround by lowering the dpi on the final product to lower than what I had initially planned (but was probably too high anyway to be honest). That means the issue should go live tomorrow night! There are a couple more tests I want to run on it but it looks good so far.

In the end I am happy with the change. We're going to a .pdf format for our ecomics for the first time, and I wanted to make sure everything looked great. It allows us to do some things we weren't able to do before and present a more professional package to our customers.

Thanks for your patience!

 

[detritus]

wow, the artwork for this looks fantastic

thanks for the previews

looking forward to the comic

 

[Oblesklk]

The Agencies #17 is now available for sale!

OK, so when I said it would be ready the night of June 3, I lied. I just couldn't make you guys wait any longer. It is now ready for purchase, I truly apologize for the delay in release.

You can either visit our website at www.the-agencies.com or just click below.

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• 12 interior color pages
• Includes a cover and sexy pinup of Agent Starlight
• Issue offered in hyperlinked PDF format
• Pencils/Inks by Javier
• Colors by Tricia Leonardo
• Written/Directed by Oblesklk and Jonathan Essex
• F/F and MF/F tickling
• Features all upper body tickling
• Features butt tickling
• Depicts breast tickling
• Depicts public humiliation
• Depicts great balance between tickle torture and erotic display
• Shows combat between an agent and Karma/The Tickler as they are in pursuit of Tiffany, their great prize
• Costs just $12.95 !

 

[buttontickler05]

Got it. The bellybutton tickling part was short, but very good! Nicely done!

 

[Oblesklk]

wow, the artwork for this looks fantastic

thanks for the previews

looking forward to the comic

Your timing is impeccable; you responded a few minutes before the issue went live. If you've purchased it already, hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks for the kind words, and we will post more previews in this thread.

 

[Oblesklk]

Here is an art sample from page 9 of the comic. Here we see a view from behind the ticklee as Agent Starlight moves in for the kill. For those following our books over the years, I like this positioning quite a bit. Not necessarily the angle, per se, but rather the part tickled. It's a red zone for a lot of women.

From our work on the www.tickletown.com site, I know women are usually very tickling near the top of their ribcage and/or the sides the their breasts. My own wife, a redhead and quite strong willed, will melt into desperate and spastic begging and laughter when touched here. It's a classic spot.

So here it is, set up in The Agencies #17. Agent Starlight is no longer screwing around

 

[Oblesklk]

Got it. The bellybutton tickling part was short, but very good! Nicely done!

Glad you liked what there was. I will call out whenever we have more than incidental amounts of bb tickling in the bullet points to avoid undue disappointment. I hope you enjoyed the issue!

 

[MidnightOyl]

Another solid issue of the agencies, I'm soooooo glad you guys are on a regular release schedule with these books. What's not to love? Hot tickle aciton, the highest quality art, amazing dialogue and characters, I could go on and on. Nice job. I love that Starlight went a little crazy on the black haired girl in here.....reminds me of another red haired villain in your other books (hmmmmmm). It was also great to see some guys tickling in here, you should do more of that.

Is the next one coming out this month? week? tomorrow? Please say it is I'm getting blue balls for Tiffany lol

 

[Oblesklk]

Another solid issue of the agencies, I'm soooooo glad you guys are on a regular release schedule with these books. What's not to love? Hot tickle aciton, the highest quality art, amazing dialogue and characters, I could go on and on. Nice job. I love that Starlight went a little crazy on the black haired girl in here.....reminds me of another red haired villain in your other books (hmmmmmm). It was also great to see some guys tickling in here, you should do more of that.

Is the next one coming out this month? week? tomorrow? Please say it is I'm getting blue balls for Tiffany lol

Thank you very much, I'm very glad you enjoyed the issue. Let me tell you it's a relief finally getting some momentum in this series again. So many missteps and blunders in hiring the wrong people for the job. Ugh. Worst part is all of that is 100% my fault.

Let us hope that is in the past!

We have a special treat for fans of the series right now that we are focusing on. After that we will be in production for #18 soon. The script needs review but I'm excited about it. There is some interesting backstory in there.

When will Tiffany get it? Hmmmmmm

 

[Sinister-Lurker]

~Sinister-Lurker 22 hours ago
Firstly, allow me to express my appreciation of the new PDF format. Very convenient and a wonderful step forward.

Concerning the comic itself, Agencies Publishing once again delivers high-quality art and a change-up from any norm a book might be settling into. While the last few issues (and indeed, many tickling comics in general) have been set in the dungeon or similar, secluded setting, this issue sees the action happen in a very open space, in the middle of a bustling city, and in broad daylight. Quite a change-up. Most of the usual upper-body spots are seen to in this session. Bits of the advancing, overarching plot are also sprinkled in amongst the action.

All in all, another wonderful installment of The Agencies.

 

[Oblesklk]

~Sinister-Lurker 22 hours ago
Firstly, allow me to express my appreciation of the new PDF format. Very convenient and a wonderful step forward.

Concerning the comic itself, Agencies Publishing once again delivers high-quality art and a change-up from any norm a book might be settling into. While the last few issues (and indeed, many tickling comics in general) have been set in the dungeon or similar, secluded setting, this issue sees the action happen in a very open space, in the middle of a bustling city, and in broad daylight. Quite a change-up. Most of the usual upper-body spots are seen to in this session. Bits of the advancing, overarching plot are also sprinkled in amongst the action.

All in all, another wonderful installment of The Agencies.

Thanks!

I went back and forth on the pdf issue quite a bit. Ultimately it's the right answer to go to. I think the thing I like best about it is that it has that nostalgic feel of our old print books. I don't of anyone remembers but back in the day we offered both print and electronic versions of our publications. And most of those books had a credits page and a peak at upcoming issues which I think is rather neat.

I hope our readers like it. Usually people are vocal about things they hate and I haven't heard much on the matter so I take that as a good sign

And hurray for outdoor scenes! The agents need to work on their tans from time to time.

Glad you enjoyed the issue.

 

[Oblesklk]

The Agencies #17 - Page 1 Sample

Issue #17 starts off where #16 left off. Shroud, Karma's henchman who attempted to kidnap Tiffany, is taken prisoner by Agent Starlight. Agent Starlight races to get the would-be kidnapper back to Agency HQ where she can be interrogated and hopefully some of Karma's motives would be illuminated. As we see on page 1 here, Shroud starts to wake up from Agent Starlight's gas while on the back of her motorcycle. She is feeling giddy and feels tickling Agent Starlight while racing down the road would be a fun thing to do. Agent Starlight, ticklish and unable to keep the bike straight, pulls over and decides to perform the interrogation on the spot.

While Shroud is giddy and semi-conscious in the first few panels, but the time she is taped up and shirt removed in the final panel, she is fully aware of what's going on...although a little confused.

 

[Ishaanshah]

I picked this up yesterday and sent you a pretty long email this morning about my thoughts, Obs. I'll paraphrase here:

This issue was great, I really liked it. As I mentioned to you before, I don't think you're helping with my obsession with starlight. Any issue she's in my knees get weak. I almost fainted after getting issues 8 & 9 and you know why lol. She's making more of a comeback recently, and that's great. Her little sister is cute, I'm like whatever, but starlight? She is a woman. The woman of my dreams lol. Just the way she's drawn her ouftits and her hair. The way her little agent catsuit or whatever you call it looked this issue was perfect.

This is the first issue where I really got to see how sadistic she is. She's their best interrogator and i always wonder why we never got to see more of her doing her thang. We got a small taste of that in one of your early black and white issues, I forget which, but this was way cooler than that. Oh ya and I guess a couple issues back she got at the asian girl for a little bit, but nothing long enough. This was great and I agree with the guy above I like the fact everything took place out in the open it was daylight, the colors were beautiful and all the people just standing around videotaping it was funny.

Oh ya and speaking of knees getting weak, ummmmmm the pinup? Can you just do a comic with starlight in that outfit and being nylon foot tickled for like 50 pages?

 

[Oblesklk]

I picked this up yesterday and sent you a pretty long email this morning about my thoughts, Obs. I'll paraphrase here:

This issue was great, I really liked it. As I mentioned to you before, I don't think you're helping with my obsession with starlight. Any issue she's in my knees get weak. I almost fainted after getting issues 8 & 9 and you know why lol. She's making more of a comeback recently, and that's great. Her little sister is cute, I'm like whatever, but starlight? She is a woman. The woman of my dreams lol. Just the way she's drawn her ouftits and her hair. The way her little agent catsuit or whatever you call it looked this issue was perfect.

This is the first issue where I really got to see how sadistic she is. She's their best interrogator and i always wonder why we never got to see more of her doing her thang. We got a small taste of that in one of your early black and white issues, I forget which, but this was way cooler than that. Oh ya and I guess a couple issues back she got at the asian girl for a little bit, but nothing long enough. This was great and I agree with the guy above I like the fact everything took place out in the open it was daylight, the colors were beautiful and all the people just standing around videotaping it was funny.

Oh ya and speaking of knees getting weak, ummmmmm the pinup? Can you just do a comic with starlight in that outfit and being nylon foot tickled for like 50 pages?

Got your email, thanks for that!

You're not the only one that likes Agent Starlight but I suspect you are strongly in the running for her #1 fan. A fan on our dA page had some fantastic fantasy ideas with Starlight and it inspired me to add a "what's your favorite fantasy" contest to our other 10 year celebration festivities soon to be announced. You should enter that contest when the time comes

Thank you for your support of the book, it means a lot to me.