It's pretty awful, and the implications of those scenes didn't really dawn on me until a couple of re-reads later (and someone mentioning the scene is a little rapey in the IDW message boards, on the publisher's site), then I was talking about it with a friend on Facebook, and I realized it was pretty much falling under the mind rape trope, with undertones of literal rape. *shudders*

But the fact that it's happening to a male character, including the literal slant of the undertones, which breaks the cliché of women always being the victims, is decent storytelling, in my book.