Everybody knows that old ghosts are powerful and vindictive. What’s not so widely known is that they are also sadistic. Our heroines in Ghosthouse 2 (a Dofantasy comic by Slasher) have been rather swiftly and unwillingly gaining an intimate knowledge of these traits:
If there are no whips handy at his local brothel, a gentleman is always willing to improvise using his rolled-up pants:
This is from a French graphic novel called Zopeye le Mandrin by Gast. If following along just by looking at the pictures has not led me astray, it’s a story featuring Popeye re-imagined as a mailman with erectile difficulties. Spinach does not do the trick, but there’s a certain tonic that will, when available. When it’s not available, whipping (or being whipped) will also do the trick for him, which is how we find him in a brothel whipping the ladies with his rolled up pants.
This casino owner takes a very direct approach to employee discipline. When a croupier’s mistakes start costing him money, he is inclined to remonstrate with her in a very direct and corporal way:
This artwork is a detail from the cover of Europa, a novel by Robert Briffault. All I know about the whipping scene comes from this blurb on the back cover:
Julian Bern had seen a beautiful Baroness stripped naked and whipped brutally at the command of an exiled Russian prince…
You’re only going to get one cane stroke before this woman is a hundred feet down the track and accelerating away. So you might as well make it a good one:
Photo is all over the internet in various states of subtle Photoshopped alteration. The best available attribution suggests it may feature the lovely posterior of Slovenian sprinter Alenka Bikar.