One of
the first things Laura chose to do with her new abilities was to change
herself: gone was the thin, flat-chested, overlooked recluse, replaced
with a build that can only be described as "amazonian". Now well over
six feet tall, exceptionally strong, and with a body that no man seemed
able to resist, The Mink set about to being a far stronger woman than
she had ever been as "Little Laura".
The Mink ran as a serial-format story, beginning in the original issue of Genus in 1994. The first story, Do You Believe In Magic?,
had The Mink saving her old friend Shelly from an alleyway mugger. The
rest of the piece was primarily backstory, establishing Laura's
acquisition of the Grimoire and her changes.
When Genus
changed from a "mature audiences" comic to "adults only" after issue #4,
the flavour of the story changed dramatically. No longer bound to a
"soft R" rating, Karno was free to include quite a bit of violence and,
even moreso, his trademark over-the-top sex. SEX! is exactly what
the title indicates and not much more, and while later chapters would
certainly not be page after page of copulation, Laura's alarmingly
active sex drive would feature highly throughout.
The first major story arc presented The Mink fighting a demon who had rampaged throughout the minds of mages for centuries, and who was steadily eating away at her own psyche. Aided by Karno's earlier creation, the brazen, gun-packing sociopath Savage Squirrel, and through judicious application of magic, 9mm rounds, high explosives, and The Mink's own enhanced "assets", the demon was put to rest in Kill A Demon?.
Since that early story arc, The Mink, along with Shelly, Savage Squirrel and his fiance, have dodged a magic-hungry techno-wizard, fought off zombies, tried to manage the responsibilities of her powers, and even dealt with a troop of angry giants who lost their leader (this last story was not printed in Genus, but only ran in the long out-of-print Savage Funnies). The last major storyline began with The Toy Boy and centered around The Mink's discovery of a group of genetically modified "children", built-to-order for the sexual fantasies of the buyer, after one attempted suicide to escape his "owner". Laura travelled far and wide, tracking down the few "children" she could and taking the three -- Toy (later renamed Toby), Huundrat, and Bovie -- as a sort of surrogate family of her own.
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