There was a bigger gap than I’d originally expected, but here’s Max Park’s better half and Corey’s mother, Faith. I had this vague idea of what Corey’s mom would be like from early on, but I don’t really have any plans for her so she never showed up in anything until now. I’d like to use these Bios to flesh out more tertiary Applebridge characters in the future, though I don’t know for sure when.
After Kody’s accidental discharge, he and Chase engage in a little sixty-nine while he recovers.
For those who don’t remember, Tia Coy and Mia Mezzenga are the mothers of my OCs Jackie Coy and Mace Mezzenga. They haven’t appeared much, in fact this is their first time appearing nude in my work, and that was (at least originally) by design. Initially I was hoping to hold off either of them showing skin until it happened in the Mace and Jackie series, but that series has been dead in the water for a long time now and I just don’t know if my original plans will ever actually come around. While I don’t see them being romantically entwined, I decided to use one of my old ideas for their answer here. The “relaxing by the pool” idea was going to be the opening to a comic involving them and their sons eventually, with them watching the boys play in the pool at Mia’s home. Since that comic will likely never happen, I figured I’d use the idea here for this Ask instead.
Here’s page eighteen. Despite their best plans, Kody did indeed end up blowing his load to early. I’m sure they’ll figure out a way to move forward, though.
So with these pages we finally conclude the first chapter of “For Whom the Bells Toll.” I believe I’ve mentioned before that my original plan was to tell this story through the Applebridge Snapshots series, and if that’s what I had done then this chapter would’ve been told in one page like the rest of that series. I think it’s not hard to imagine what the Snapshot version of this would’ve looked like, but I think telling it this way will work better for what I have planned long-term. The next chapter will cover what would’ve been the second Snapshot page, but it might be a while before I get to it. I have a lot of other projects to work on, but I do intend to get to it sometime in 2025.
This is a little something I cooked up with two new Applebridge characters, Brandon Johnson and Xavier Williams. They’re both members of Applebridge High’s basketball team (alongside Cal Foster, if y’all remember him). They both have their own backstories that I’ll get into whenever I do their Bio pages, but for now all that matters is that they have a very… spirited rivalry, as this comic explores.
This is kind of a simple little Ask, I know, but I know some folks are wanting to see a bit more of Jasper but I also don’t want to spoil too much about what’s planned for his story in For Whom the Bells Toll. I thought this might serve as something of a cheeky little tease.
So for the longest time I’ve had designs, personalities, backstories, etc. in mind for parents to a lot of established Applebridge characters. These parental figures are not, as of yet, involved in any stories or anything, so there was never any need to debut them. However, I thought it’d be useful to expand the setting a bit by establishing who these figures are, for characters who live with their parents. Every character has their own situation, of course, and I figure I can use the Applebridge Bios series to flesh these things out.
We’re starting with Corey Park’s dad, Max. Now, both of Corey’s parents are a bit distant due to their own lives and ambitions, which is part of what allows Corey to run the racket he does, but they’re loving parents in their own ways. Corey’s mom will be the next one of these I do, though it may be a bit before I get to her.
I feel like this is a pretty straightforward and obvious pairing that I probably would’ve already done by now if I hadn’t fallen off Corey content somewhat. I do think the dynamic here is a bit different due to the nature of the Ask, maybe usually Corey’d be a bit rougher with someone like Tremaine, but I like this pose. There’s something about how Tremaine seems like the kind of woman to keep her heels on during sex that makes seeing here feet feel more scandalous than just seeing her naked.
I’ve mentioned this before, but up until now I’ve been inking/coloring old pages I sketched out many years ago and left sitting in a work folder. We’re now officially into new pages, but I’m gonna do my best to match the style and pacing and everything I set back in 2016.
