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Late Night Swipe File: Sex Criminals And Distance Between The Two
Sex Criminals is the smash hit sex comedy from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, published by Image Comics. In which a couple meet, who both have the power to stop time after they've orgasmed, which gives them the opportunity to change the world for the better. By stealing stuff. It's very popular, and gives the characters lots of opportunity to have sex all over the place. Makes a change from rushing into a phone booth to take off your clothes and… no, it's basically the same thing.
Well this is the hentai Distance Between The Two by Japanese writer/artist Hanaharu Naruko. In which two teenagers pray to the gods for time to stop when they are together. Which it does.
Which gives them the opportunity to have sex all over the place. Which they do.
Although there are consequences. All sorts of consequences.
Both stories go off in very different directions, and while sex is a focus for both comics, they have a narrative aim external to that… but in both there's lots of sperm going everywhere…
I wonder if it could have had an influence?
In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself? If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.