I've written before about how it was Eric Stanton's Family
Business comic that convinced me that
it was okay to give in to my Femdom fantasies. Family Business was followed by two direct sequels (Family Intrigue
and Friends of the Family) that seemed to be building towards a
spanktacular
climax. However, having searched through every Stanton publication I can find,
it seems that the great man never got around to drawing it. So here is the
first part of my attempt at a Family Finale...
To be continued...
I always thought that Family Business would be considered a
seminal work of
Femdom, but a lot of people seem to be unaware of it. If you
haven't heard of it, perhaps you've come across the considerably more famous
prequel, Family Affair.
Created (I think) in the 70s, Family Affair 1 tells the
story of the
recently married Lorraine and Henry. With the help of her daughter
Dolly, Lorraine takes over the household by brutally dominating Henry and his
two children Lily and Teddy.
Although considered a classic, I've never really liked the
original Family Affair. For a start it's now illegal in most places, as Dolly,
Lily and Teddy are obviously under 18. It's also brutal. Although there are some
great spanking and facesitting scenes, most of the time Lorraine and Dolly are
punching and kicking instead of spanking. Lily's treatment is most shocking -
she is much feistier than her brother and stands up to Dolly, only to get
beaten down by her stepmother.
Family Affair 1 was followed by 10 shorter stories published
as part of the Stantoons series. Although they still had many of the same
problems, Family Affair 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 were slightly less brutal as
they chronicled how Lorraine took over the hapless Henry's life. Lily and Teddy
disappeared entirely from the later issues, as in part 9 a now fully mature
Dolly attempted to do to her step-uncle what her mother had done to her
stepfather. Parts 10 and 11 were an intimate look at Henry being punished for
ogling another woman.
And boy did he get punished!
Family Business came next, and improved the formula
immensely. Lorraine is probably the ultimate
domestic dominatrix, and her
daughter Dolly isn't far behind. Henry is a broken shell of a man, utterly
obedient to Lorraine. Teddy is a cute 19-year-old who doesn't seem entirely
distraught at his life of painful servitude. Lily is back, feisty as ever and
absolutely gorgeous, but much to her chagrin she still gets her beautiful
bottom spanked on a regular basis.
The Family Business of the title is Lorraine's new shop,
which sells every kind of disciplinary tool, sex aid and bondage contraption
you could imagine. The shop's selling point is that
every piece of equipment is tested before purchase/shipping, either by the customers, or by Lorraine, Dolly or Lily on the customers:
Or by Lorraine, Dolly or customers on Henry, Teddy or Lily:
When Lily asks why she, her father and brother have to do
all the 'receiving', Lorraine gives a response that should be on the wall of
every sex dungeon around the world...
Family Intrigue and Friends of the Family followed, but despite
the obvious sequel hook, there was no direct follow-up after that.
There were a few 'spin offs' however.
Most interesting was Family Maid. This seems like it fits in
the timeline just before the Family Business series - the shop is mentioned and
the story ends on a cliffhanger that suggests Henry, Lily and Teddy will rise
up against Lorraine, Dolly and the maid.
No doubt the repercussions of this are
what broke Henry once and for all and led to his obedient attitude in later
stories. It's unclear if Bettina the maid is the same maid as appeared in
Family Affair, but she's a great character so I've assumed so and brought her
back for the finale. Maybe she returned to Europe while Lorraine built up the
business?
Family Maid did have an epilogue that suggested a proper
Family Business 2 was in the pipeless, but having been through every Stantoon
from number 84 onwards I still can't find any evidence it was ever created.
Teddy's Nightmare is another spinoff where Teddy (
what is it about that name and submissive males?) dreams that he, Dolly, Henry and
Lorraine live in Stanton's Princk universe where all the women are well-endowed
hermaphrodites. It's a great spinoff but obviously doesn't provide the
much-wanted climax to the series.
The other spinoffs Let's Pin Teddy, Captain Dolly and
Boybeaters are all okay but slightly disapointing (especially the latter) as they focus on the three kids' increasingly
tame exploits and lack the sheer unadulterated matriarchal dominance that just
oozes out of the three Family Business stories.
There is also the mysterious Family Affair Year One
(Stantoons 95) which I can't find anywhere and I think is just a retelling of
the original story.
Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed part 1 of my Family Finale.
Part 2 is nearly finished. In the meantime, if you know of any other Stanton
stories featuring the Family that I haven't mentioned here then please please
please let me know.