The first two parts of Twenty can be found here.


In Part 3 of Twenty we are now in 2019, and the ‘second sexual revolution’ has largely liberated sexuality. Heiress of the Sybil clubs and the Cliffords and Sanders sex education schools, Twenty also hosts a major erotic show on the internet. This is when the famous comic book author Erich von Götha contacts her – he would like her to play his heroine of The Troubles of Janice in a film. The exploration of an erotic story within an erotic story is handled with von Götha’s well-honed narrative skill.

At the end of Part 3 everything seems to be going incredibly well for our heroine, but on the first page of Part 4 there is a shock twist of fate. Twenty is thrown out of a car in a terrible accident, and we find her on a hospital bed, plunged into a deep coma. While her friends take turns to enjoy their new-found sexual freedom around her, the heroine’s mind wanders according to the voices she hears, and she forcefully recalls old memories.

In a rich variety of sexual encounters Erich von Götha manages to create enough interest to raise Twenty above the run-of-the-mill erotic comics, even though his future erotic world is still eternally young, conventionally beautiful and solidly heteronormative. As he writes in the short introduction to Part 4, he is inspired by the philosophy of Saint Emmanuelle, the woman who wrote that ‘time spent not making love is time wasted’.


As with the first two parts, these Twenty episodes were published in French by Dynamite, in 2006 and 2008; with the demise of The Erotic Print Society they never appeared in English.