We received the cover today!
We're even closer to the release date, and we're pretty excited about it. Dave and I have been exchanging emails, I'm going to come onto his WCR radio show this Thursday so we can shoot the breeze about this release and other tickling issues. Should be fun!
This cover is the most provocative cover we've ever had on an issue of...well, anything. Given what's inside the book though I felt this a pretty good representation of what you could expect. This isn't too much of a spoiler: we already showed above that Yang was in a nurse's outfit and one of the overall themes of the book was going to be erotic tickling torment.
One of the interesting things we tried to cover in these last couple of issues is the dichotomy of the twins Yin and Yang. Yin has mastery over ice, and is labeled the Ice Queen of the East. She's cool, professional, and overly sadistic. She tortured Succubus in Issue #12 merely because she could, and not really for any other reason. Her sadism goes far deeper, as readers will discover in Issue #13. This personality is offset somewhat by Yang, who controls fire. Yang is more sensuous, empathetic, and a highly sexual person. She is drawn towards sex symbols and would just a soon give her victims an earth shattering orgasm as tickle them. The ambiguity of Succubus's comments on this cover are a direct result of Yang's attention. Her victims beg for it yet hate it at the same time. It's symbolic of most ticklees' love/hate relationship with tickling. Many love the feeling but have some ambivolence about the lack of control over themselves. The same holds here...Agent Succubus is not a tickle fetishist by any means, but Yang's techniques are both pleasurable and torturous at the same time and the result are subtle forms of madness.
Enough jabbering. Enjoy!