Not what I was expecting, I had greater hopes for it. I suppose it was meant to just be a tease of shapely female bodies, but it would work for teens not for adults!

If you want well written erotic stories... look elsewhere, if you just want well drawn pics of pretty women having sex ... well, there is some good-looking art, but also some not so good.

If you want well written erotic stories... look elsewhere, if you just want well drawn pics of pretty women having sex you'll probably like this, although not all the art is that good.

Okay art. Mostly illustrations of spanking, which did not appeal to me.

This wasn't a real comic book. I expected a full story and it wasn't anything like that.

Nice drawings with some interesting bondage positions. I expected fuller pictures, backgrounds and the like.

Nice drawings, good for the calender. I expected fuller pictures, backgrounds and the like.

Nothing redeeming about this. Not even worth it as a freebie.

Ronay #1 is the first issue of the Ronay series of erotic comics. Released in watermarked PDF, the comic is thirty-six pages long. Twenty pages are devoted to the actual comic of Ronay, along with two pages of fan service artwork of the titular character, and six pages of a bonus comic, “Sextoplasm.” The remaining eight pages consist of the front cover, back cover, credits page, and five pages of ads. Despite being in PDF format, there are no bookmarks, which is a tad disappointing.

The majority of the comic is done in full color art. Both of the covers, as well as Ronay’s comic section (along with her pin-up art and the ads) are done in a fairly lush color sequence. The imagery is fairly crisp, but the artist doesn’t overdo it with trying to make everything too detailed. Similarly, the character designs are fairly conservative, but don’t seem overly cartoony (and aren’t anime-inspired at all).

The plot is fairly simple, though it serves its purpose rather well. Things take place on some sort of alternate Earth, which has a notably post-apocalyptic feel. Here, a kindly nun named Rebecca finds a woman collapsed and injured in the desert. She takes her back to her convent, where we see that the other nuns there are a fairly hateful bunch of sadistic old crones. Rebecca treats mysterious woman (Ronay herself) for her wounds, just before the rest of the nuns drag Rebecca off for an afternoon of beatings and torture for her act of kindness. Dumping her back in her room, naked and bleeding, Ronay, who is a vampire, awakens at the scent of blood, and is quick to feed on Rebecca, and even more quick to let that become an instance of gratuitous lesbian sex. With Rebecca in tow, Ronay then kills the head of the convent and begins to take it over.

Sextoplasm, the bonus comic, is quicker to get to the action. Set in a more contemporary world, a woman who seems to very much be a ghostbuster is called in to deal with a female haunt. Confronting the ghost, the living lady is caught by surprised when the ghost conjures up multiple phantom, disembodies penises which swarm her and do her thoroughly. Despite (or perhaps because of) its brevity, this comic ends with a note that it will be continued, almost certainly as a companion in the next Ronay comic book.

As an erotic comic, the sex scenes are the most important part of the book, and they do quite well here. A hardcore work, the sex scenes have no problem with showing genitalia in thorough detail instead of confining themselves to just T&A (though make no mistake, there’s plenty of that here too). Ironically, while the sex scenes are fairly well done, it’s the layout of the comic itself that’s frustrating. The advertisements are inserted directly between the pages of the comic, breaking up the flow of the action. It’s somewhat jarring to go through several pages of Ronay and Rebecca having sex, only to have it be broken up by a full-page ad for other Jism Comics products, and then back to the sex again.

One other issue that might undercut the sexy aspects of the comic for some readers is the gore we see. While never truly mixed with the sex scenes, the comic pays a high amount of detail to scenes of explicit violence and gore. When Ronay kills the head of the convent, she mutilates her rather thoroughly. While I recognize that everyone’s tastes are different, I find that the image of a curvy dark-haired woman in nothing but a thong is somehow not quite as hot when she’s drinking blood from a severed (and severely mangled) head – of course, the juxtaposition is quite likely purposeful on the artist’s part, in which case he succeeded quite well.

Overall, Ronay is a good addition to the world of erotic comic books. Its sex scenes are arousing, and while the story may be fairly simple, it gets the job done. It isn’t taking full advantage of the technical aspects of being a PDF, and the placement of the ads is rather annoying, but these are still minor problems at most. The comic reads quite well and does a good job where it needs to. Along with the bonus comic and pin-up art are nice little bonuses as well, making Ronay’s debut well worth the price of reading.