So here’s the second page of Special Training 0, a comic commission I sold a while ago to cover some emergency costs. Like all of my projects right now, this one’s moving a bit slower than I’d like, but I hope y’all are enjoying it so far.
This script for page four is a fairly even hybrid between two that were submitted, I think. There were a couple things I liked in the submitted scripts that didn’t feel right to fit in here, but I think will make sense in page five from where we left off. Monthly Ongoings are four-panel comics, but I kinda split the third panel in two. This was my decision to try and convey more action clearly, and I feel fine justifying it since the shots are so up-close. Hope y’all enjoy.
So this One-Shot had a pretty straightforward premise, Sonic characters versus DC heroes they had something in common with. Now, I know there was a Justice League and Sonic crossover in the comics not too long ago, but I don’t keep up with modern comics and have only seen a handful of panels shared around. I talked with the Subscriber who submitted this script and decided I didn’t want to worry about referencing that comic (I don’t even know how much these pairings overlap with that comic, anyway) and just do my own thing. So I went with the Bruce Timm/DCAU designs for the heroes, ’cause I think that simpler art style looks best with the way I tend to draw Sonic characters. I think the result works, like this JLU/Sonic X crossover feels like it could’ve happened to me. The one trick was the last panel, as neither Starfire nor Blaze appeared in their respective cartoons. Blaze wasn’t hard to work with, but I did need to figure out an approach for Starfire. I ended up leaning more into her design from the later animated movies, but with a few tweaks to make her feel a bit closer to the Teen Titans design I usually use for her.
I was told to add any dialogue I wanted for this one, so I tried to have a little fun with that.
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!
So this page put me in kinda a weird position, and I’m already regretting allowing the premise for this comic to go through the nomination process. I don’t want to linger on one form for too long, but of the four scripts there were basically only two options I could work with and neither were ideal. I ended up settling on a bit of a stop-gap solution, since the other option felt like a weird departure from what I understand the purpose of this comic to be. Next page Envy will be taking a new form, and I can only hope things will improve from there.
Here is the One-Shot comic for September 2026. Like always, this script was selected semi-randomly from those submitted by my supporters on SubscribeStar. This is another Jujutsu Kaisen/My Hero Academia crossover, a concept we’ve seen before in the One-Shots. Obviously the faces and pairings are a bit different, and I hope everyone will find something they can enjoy here.
Took a short pause on this one, but we’re back with another page!
Things continue to play out for our blindfolded Deku here. I feel like that element of the premise probably won’t survive the next page, though, but we’ll see what Ochaco and Tsuyu have in store for him in a few months.
Like always, the script for this One-Shot was selected from Subscriber submissions. This script is one of those One-Shots where each panel is kinda its own little scene. Aside from Urbosa and Link, I’m not really familiar with any of these characters (I barely met All For One before leaving MHA, and I’ve never seen this newscaster girl before). I know Chris and Sheva through occasionally seeing them in SFM animations, but I don’t know anything about them. The last two girls seem to be a rich girl and her maid from one of the recent Pokémon games, but this was the first time I’d seen either of them. I hope my lack of familiarity with them didn’t affect too much, though, and y’all can enjoy this collection of little scenes.
We’re down in the trenches of this match now, with this being the penultimate page for them. I’ve been enjoying these two as a pair, and I hope y’all have been as well. I’m not sure yet exactly when I’ll be able to start the last page for this match, but I hope it won’t be too terribly long.