Page six of Clean Break. The scripts submitted for this page were kind of at odds, but I tried to strike a good balance here. I had to make a couple compromises but I think the action is continuing well enough.
Some of you may remember Evan King, an original character from my Spookyverse. His gimmick is that he’s a would-be monster hunter who, despite his best efforts, always ends up failing to take down the monsters he hunts and instead gets toyed with by them in some fashion. The idea behind this One-Shot script was to have him meet that fate with a bunch of “monster” type characters this Subscriber is into. Some of them are pretty obscure, and it wasn’t easy getting reference material for everyone, but here they are. The first panel is Surge from the Sonic comics, who I’ve drawn before and is probably the most mainstream character here. The second panel features Ms. White from a little webcomic called Pixa Chats, who’s actually appeared with Evan before in a commission this Subscriber did with a different artist. Appearing beside her is Scream, one of the many Symbiote characters from Marvel comics, who this Subscriber has nominated for NHML multiple times in the past. The third panel is a character I think is just called Minotaur, from a manga called “King of the Labyrinth”. I read a bit of it to prep for this comic, and did not care for it, but the Minotaur’s design is alright. The last panel features Amber from Space Leaper: Cocoon and Dinah from Unicorn Overlord, a couple of games I’ve never heard of and know nothing about.
We’re nearing the end of the pages I first sketched back in 2016 or so when I first started this comic. I know people have been growing impatient with the pace of this comic, but the original plan back then was to release the entire comic at once when it was finished. Now that I know that I can’t stick to a project that isn’t releasing as I finish pages, we’ve made real progress here, so I hope everyone will continue to be patient with me as this comic moves forward.
So here’s the final page of Space Emperor Slut, finally! This ending has always been the plan, more or less, from day one. Funnily enough, however, this comic began before Frieza’s return in Super, so this setting was going to be different. The original plan was for Frieza to wake up in HFIL, and have a conversation with Cell. I changed it to take place during his training with Tagoma, and setting up a potential sequel (though we’ll see). This is another page where there’s not much difference between the two versions, but I need to keep it consistent (and there is a minor difference through the flashbacks).
In the previous page, Nanami was planning to really give Tiana the business. It seems like maybe he bit off a bit more than he can chew, however, but Nanami’s prepared to make things right and finish properly in the second round.
Here’s the fifth page of Closing Time. A simple one, but one I hope you all will enjoy.
We ended up with a rather oral-focused page this time around. A couple of the scripts I got had panels focusing on Bulma stripping Vegeta, but I had to skip the armor-removing stage of that just ’cause it looked a bit too silly however I tried it. Even though this page doesn’t move things forward too much, I kinda like the relaxed pace here. Now that everyone’s naked, I kinda expect the next few pages to escalate relatively quickly.
The March 2024 One-Shot focuses on Scarlet from Space Dandy hooking up with a few different memorable characters from the series. It’s been a minute since I’ve watched the show, but I don’t think she ever actually meets Prince or Johnny, but they’re both featured characters in two of the more iconic episodes. Pine-Pine is a coworker of hers, and Dandy is the show’s main ship, though.
Scarlet’s a character I’ve tried to do something with for years, but when I got stuck on the BooBies Calendar it became incredibly difficult for me to get anything Space Dandy-related out for a few years. It’s nice to finally get her into the Studio, though, and the other three she’s bringing with her are nice additions as well. I decided to go with a different look of hers for each panel, and thought it’d be kinda funny if none of them were her “default” look. I’m sure that design will show up eventually in an Ask or something, though.
This is the penultimate page of Space Emperor Slut. This is also the last “action” page, as the final page will be wrapping up the story. This moment here, including the last panel and Trunks’s line, have been planned from day one back in 2015, and it feels nice to finally get here
Page four of Closing Time! Tiana and Nanami continue having fun together. A lot of this stretch of the comic is just sketches I ended up churning out when I started it, and it might go on for a bit long, but I hope y’all will enjoy the ride.