The fourty-fifth comic: #498 The 110 Pills
We have to cover a couple of erotic comics during these adventures, which is somewhat awkward considering most of my comics reading is on the train. I bit the bullet for 110 Pills and was happy that the black and white lineart somewhat obfuscated what I'm reading to the casual observer. 110 Pills got explicit, with drawn nudity and sexual acts, as, in a way, suits the story. It revolves around a leader (I want to say a Chinese nobleman, but I'm not sure that's intended) with several concubines. To help his sexual prowess, he gets pills from a monk that help him out - 110 pills of Viagra, you could say. He is told to take them only once every full moon, but of course he doesn't stick to that and it leads to his end.
There are a bunch of gratuitious scenes, embracing the concept to show off, but the art is done quite well and the story and characterization is strong enough to take it beyond that. It's been a good read - while I wasn't trying to hide it from my fellow commuters.