Applebridge

For Whom the Bells Toll, Page 00-03

So, I had some ideas for how I wanted to handle the Bell characters I introduced earlier this year. I could have just, like, drawn Jonah fucking Jasper and been done with it, but I wanted to try doing a narrative and some build-up instead. I considered telling their story within Applebridge Snapshots, but I’ve been having trouble getting those out lately and already have a number of ideas and new characters for that series I’m sitting on… I didn’t want to muck that series up with more backlog. So, I’m trying a different approach. This won’t be a comic, but it’ll still operate more or less like one. I’m hoping this formatting will work well for this type of story, but we’ll see as more pages come out. Right now the final page here is what would’ve originally been the first panel of the hypothetical Snapshot page, with the cover and preceding pages working to flesh the story out a bit more. The next update will jump right into the action, starting with what would’ve been the second panel of this story had been done as a Snapshot.

Different Person

When I made the first Hidden Orchard Society page, I only intended to use Stacie and Cecil for that simple little story. However, while working on it, I got this itch to draw a follow-up of Stacie after the HOS got to her. She was a reserved and shy girl before, but now she’s been “loosened up”, and even if her boyfriend doesn’t know why, he seems to be enjoying this new side of her.

Also a little disclaimer, but getting a secret underground society to gangbang your virgin gf won’t actually turn her into a sex beast, Applebridge is fantasy.

Jasper Bell Bio

Here’s the bio page for Jasper Bell, the yoga dad I drew a while back. My current plan is for the next Applebridge Snapshot to feature him, and I’m hoping to be able to start that soon, but who knows. His initial role will probably be a surprise to most of you, since I’m not planning to jump directly into the obvious end point with him and Jonah. Speaking of Jonah, he might have a bio soon as well if I can fit him in. I’m also considering doing a pin-up or something with Jasper between now and whenever I can get that Snapshot page out. Like always, though, we’ll just have to wait and see what I’m able to get out.

Corey and Kai Character Ask 1

Lin was an obvious eventual pairing with Corey once she debuted, and while I personally don’t know how much I agree, there’s been some discussion of Kai being similar to Corey since he’s also topped older characters in my work before. I figured this Ask might be a fun one for some people for those reasons, and I don’t really need much convincing to do more Lin anyway.
Kai was introduced after I stopped watching TLoK, so I don’t actually know much about his dynamic with Lin, or if they even had one. Assuming he does interact with her, though, I’m going to go ahead and assume she’s found her way into his fantasies at some point.
Also, for anyone interested in last month’s Q&A video for SubscribeStar, here it is:

Kids and Their Phones

So, the plan with Corey and Ms. Dumpsey has always been for him to move from just fucking her himself to renting her out to the other kids in the neighborhood. I’m not there yet, largely because I haven’t decided exactly how I want to frame it yet. Originally I’d planned to do them as a series of comics within Applebridge Snapshots, like the original Corey/Dumpsey event, but now I feel like that’d take me too long to work through. While I continue workshopping the concept, though, I figured I’d show how Corey’s been sharing the footage he’s shot with her. I’ve wanted to do a pic like this for a while, with the POV character watching something compromising of the person they’re talking to, and Ms. Dumpsey’s a perfect character for it due to the gap between her normal personality and what Corey’s done to her. Hopefully somewhere down the line we’ll see her put to more use as I figure out my approach.

Hidden Orchard Society #1

This is the culmination of a handful of half-baked ideas I’ve been rolling around in my head for a while now. This first one is basically a test-run to see how people like the concept, but if it goes well I have plenty of ideas for future entries in this series. The basic premise is a simple before/after of an Applebridge resident running into an underground sex cult. Like we see here, the before will be some example of their normal life, while the after is them being broken in by the Hidden Orchard Society in some capacity. A lot of these characters will probably be new and/or only made for their one appearance, but I think this juxtaposition can create an effective narrative even with just two images. Anyway, feedback is welcome here since I’m testing the waters and all.

Carly Sims Character Ask 2

I’ve talked on my Discord some about how I’m hoping to get a handful of Applebridge projects either started or out during this month, and I figured it’d be appropriate to open with an Applebridge Ask for the month. Carly and Wren are both in the same grade, so it’s reasonable to think they’d know each other in the Applebridge canon, but I picture them gravitating to different friend groups. However, I see no reason why they couldn’t be friends in the Studio, and I figured drawing a line between those worlds might be an interesting bent on her answer.

Corey Park’s First Dare

I have a pretty limited range of uses for Corey, I think he works best in a specific setting with a specific dynamic. However, every now and then it can be cute to see someone taken out of their element a little. While I don’t really like the idea of Corey ever going full bottom, I still think Mace and Jackie’s energy was pretty badly damaged by that, but a little bit of him outside his comfort zone can be fun, I hope.