In 2001 this game was reworked into a non-adult, non-collectible card game called Girl Genius: The Works, based on the Foglios' comic Girl Genius. It was designed after positive reader reaction to the tenth issue of the comic's cover, which showed cards for a hypothetical XXXenophile CCG. It was the first adult-themed CCG (with adult mechanics-some cards contained directions for the player to remove a piece of clothing). Card game Ī collectible card game based on the comic was also created, with game mechanics designed by James Ernest There were five issues published, with stories by Julie Ann Sczesny, Colin Upton (two), and Charlie Wise (two). Palliard Press published a related series, XXXenophile Presents, which presented stories by other creators, each story taking up an entire issue.
The series is on hiatus on the initiative of the Foglios until their children are of appropriate age for the material. In 2004 Studio Foglio released XXXenophile Quick and Dirty, a 20-page booklet of unreleased material. A sixth volume of The XXXenophile Collection, with a new 64-page story, was published in 2000. The additional stories were compiled separately in a final, eleventh issue of the comic book in 1998.
In 19, the contents of the ten issues were reprinted in the five-volume The XXXenophile Collection series each volume contained a number of stories from the original comics (not in their original publication order) plus a new story (generally a second look at characters from an earlier story such as the superhero Orgasm Lass and her four-armed male sidekick Foreplay). In 1994, the contents of the first five issues were reprinted in The XXXenophile Big Book O' Fun. XXXenophile was published as a series of ten comic books from 1989 to 1995. Of course, this particular pediatrician would not go on the record, and I would not ask her to, but it still gave me good feelings for the day." He recalls, "I had a pediatrician tell me if she had a choice between a young teenage boy finding XXXenophile and Batman, she’d throw him XXXenophile because it teaches much healthier interactions. Foglio cited rape, mind control, pedophilia, "classical necrophilia", excretion, snuff porn, branding, piercing, heavy sadomasochism, and spanking as topics that he did not find appealing and would not write about. It portrays a variety of sexual activities, including "oral sex, anal sex, group sex, masturbation, voyeurism, double penetration, inter-racial (literally), bestiality (although generally with an animal possessing intelligence), mild sado-masochism, homosexuality (female, in every issue male, just in the last issue), exhibitionism, sex with any number of devices, necrophilia (specifically sex with a ghost), prostitution, and various others, including some that were only possible in micro-gravity". Foglio satirizes numerous plot elements of fantasy and science fiction, such as time travel, cloning, robots, deals with the devil, love potions, and geasa. The series' general emphasis is on the enjoyment of sexuality as a playful activity. Each story is inked by a different artist. It is an anthology of short, whimsical, erotic fantasy and science fiction stories, written and penciled by Phil Foglio. XXXenophile is an American comic book series, published by Palliard Press and later Studio Foglio.