Another year, another Halloween party here in the Studio. This year’s party felt like it took longer than usual, and I think that might be in part because I tried to fit too much into each panel. Not only does this make the page take longer to get out, but it also makes the figures smaller and maybe even harder to make out, so I’m going to try avoiding that for the Christmas party if I can. I am happy with everything we fit in, though.
There’s a couple characters here we haven’t seen in a while, maybe even some of you didn’t even know some of them were in the Studio. This year I finally got to do something with Carmella Creeper, the undead DJ from the monster cereal line. I always pictured her in charge of the music for these parties, but this year we got to see her. We also got a fun little nod to the Poll Me Closer series, plus I finally got to pair Corey Park with one of the Tom & Jerry witches I introduced last October. We also have a follow-up to the Canute Ask. Of the costume ideas submitted, Link and Zelda just seemed weirdly fitting and also gave me some ideas for how to use them in a scene.
I hope y’all enjoy this year’s party! In spite of it all I’m pretty happy with the final page, and I’m already busy working on Christmas’s!
Every year around Halloween, a randomly-selected Studio member gets to show off their costume for that year in a little pin-up. This character also gets the center panel of the follow-up Halloween party montage. This year the winner was Scourge, one of many Mobians who’s mostly just shown up in gangbangs of Chris Thorndyke. I thought a pirate costume fit him, and I looked to some of Sonic’s pirate looks from the games for how to make that work.
It feels like I rarely find time to work with Frieza ever since SES ended. I think this Ask is one where a character’s own personality might get in the way of their answer. Frieza’s essentially a raceplay weirdo, and for him part of the joy of Saiya-jin cock is lowering himself to being the cumrag of a race he considers beneath him (nobody ever said Frieza wasn’t problematic). So I think the real thing he likes about lower-class Saiya-jins would just be that they’re even lower down, so he’s sinking further. He wouldn’t really be able to acknowledge that, though, so he just describes them as more “savage” whether or not that’s true. Maybe it actually is for Turles, anyway.
Also, for anyone who’s interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
One more spooky Ask here. When thinking about this one, I figured it’d be fun to focus on just other vampire ladies. There’s a few who haven’t really gotten to appear much, so it was a good excuse to bring them back. Obviously there’s more vampires than this in the Studio, including a few of my own OCs, but I feel like this lineup is pretty fun and eclectic.
So here’s the other Spookyverse Bio I’m planning to go public in October this year. Obviously there’s some overlap here with Ember’s bio, but Silas has his own things going on. Of the human activities he’s been interested in through his investigations, I thought it’d be funny if he was interested in basketball. Maybe he identifies with the ball somehow.
Taking a little bit of a break from spooky Asks for this one. This was just one of those Asks where I immediately felt like I know how Chi-Chi would answer. I went back and forth on what they should be doing while she answers. I did consider pegging, but we’ve seen that from these two before and it also doesn’t actually feel like their usual dynamic to me. This felt much more accurate, and I don’t know if we’ve seen Goku eating out his wife’s pussy on camera before.
It’s been a few years since I said I’d stop making an effort to introduce a new Spookyverse character every Halloween season, but I think I’ve still managed to introduce one every year anyway. This time I was wanting to try something different, instead of looking to classic horror for inspiration I wanted something more modern. The idea here was to try and tap into more internet-era horror concepts like creepypastas, ARGs and the like. I think the concept I landed on has a strong element of backrooms to it, with a touch of the Infinity Devil from Chainsaw Man, and probably a few other familiar influences mixed in. Mx. Vacancy is meant to feel a bit like a modern horror mascot type character, and I hope you’ll all like them.
Obviously the joke here is that the POV anon who stumbled into the Grand Vacancy Hotel made a request to have sex with Mx. Vacancy without specifying who’s topping. I see Mx. Vacancy as a bit like Butt Witch, in that they can change their body in some limited ways without being a full-blown shapeshifter. So here they made sure they had a nice big cock to grant this customer’s wish. Since I see this character as a bit of a enigmatic and mysterious entity, I decided to go with a non-binary identity for them. I also just think Mx. Vacancy sounds cooler than Ms. Vacancy or Mr. Vacancy.
So, at first for this one I thought it’d be really fun to show Canute in a costume here and then have him wearing it somewhere in the party montage. I really was struggling with getting an idea I liked, though, partly because I don’t actually know Canute that well and partly because I had other drama going on at the same time that made it hard to brainstorm. While I was thinking, though, I felt like Canute might enjoy giving some voice to others for this. A big part of his Studio journey has been embracing not being in control as much, and maybe he’d enjoy letting y’all suggest a costume for him. I think that also gives a bit more room for him to wear something he might not have thought up for himself. Obviously this will only be an interactive element for Subscribers, since the Halloween party will be finished long before this Ask goes public, but I’ll choose a fitting idea from the comments of this Ask and try to work Canute wearing it into the party somewhere. Like he hinted here, doubles costumes can work too if the idea’s good. I think this is the first time I’ve done an Ask with an interactive element to it like this, but I hope it goes over well and is fun for y’all. In this case it does kinda mean a boring image of just Canute standing around naked, but I think the eventual pay-off and knowing he’s wearing something one of y’all suggested will make it worth it.










