This is, I believe, only the fourth time I’ve drawn Rosalynne from my Applebridge OC setting. For those who don’t remember, Rosalynne is the mother of Terry Birch, and back in college she would frequently hook up with Mickie Cummins. I haven’t explored much with these characters in my content, but I did think it was high time to let them fuck on camera.
Here’s the business partner of Kenton and father of Brooke, Sean Bishop. Like Kenton, Sean is gonna play into later events in Sunkissed Youth, but for now I just wanted to kinda get his design set in stone. I wanted a kinda outdoorsy dad vibe for him, and hopefully that comes across here.
So this is both the end of Corey and Ms. Dumpsey’s first arc, as well as the launching point for a new series. There’s only so much I think can really be done with just Corey fucking the mean old lady down the road over and over. So, while he’s not done with her, we’ll go on to see him making use of her body to other locals in the series “Corey’s Dump Truck Rental.” I suspect it’ll be a while before I do more of this series, so don’t expect to see more right away, but I’ve been planning this turn for a while and it’s exciting to make it here finally.
Shannon Valentino is another design I was kinda itching to draw, sort of a similar situation to Corinne Crane and her debut pic. Unlike Corinne I have a little bit of an idea who Shannon is and what I might like to do with her eventually. I have a Bio page planned for her, though it may be a bit before you see it as I have a couple others I intend to do first. For now I wanted to see her design fleshed out in a finished pic, from a more flattering/interesting angle than I’d usually use for a bio page.
So twice now Corey and Yuji have hung out “Corey’s way.” Corey’s capable of being a fair guy, so even if it’s not his thing really he’s willing to give Yuji’s way a chance here.
Hard to believe we’re twenty-five pages deep on this comic. I hope y’all are still enjoying it ’cause there’s more to come.
I don’t know how many people will remember Marko here, but he showed up in an Applebridge Snapshot back in 2020. I know a lot of people immediately associate him with Mirio from MHA, for obvious reasons, but he’s actually based on both Mirio and a Pokémon character named Milo. Both have a number of things in common, and the idea for Marko was just that he’d be the same type of boy as them, even down to his name having the same similarities. Marko has a larger role to play much much later on down the line in Sunkissed Youth, so I thought it might be prudent to get a bio out for him. I have a couple more bios planned for characters who will eventually play a role in SY, so look for those sometime in the near future.
So Corey and Loren don’t really have much in common. Even within the Applebridge canon they’re removed by the tax brackets of their parents, plus Corey’s like three or four years older than Loren. Still, I thought there could be some fun in highlighting how different they are, especially since Corey recently made acquaintances with someone who’s way more Loren’s type. As for Corey’s partner here, I couldn’t think of anyone tied to Loren who would fit (unfortunately Loren doesn’t have a grandma or anything who’s been introduced), so I instead partnered him with someone I’ve meant to pair him with for a while but never had a good chance to.
Here is the One-Shot for November 2025, featuring a handful of different pairings/groupings, including a few of my OCs. Our first panel features Rocket Raccoon and Emma Frost from Marvel Rivals, and while I’m quite familiar with both in comics I know nothing about this game. Second panel is two of my Applebridge characters, Marko Laine and Casey Buckner. The third panel features Sung Jinwoo and Cha Hae-In from Solo Leveling, and the final panel sees a reunion of Applebridge’s Max and Faith Park with Jujutsu Kaisen’s Kento Nanami.
