Pokémon

Nurse Joy Character Ask 1

I haven’t done too much taking my Near Pokédex versions of Pokémon and pairing them up with established characters from the original franchise. A couple of the trainers in that series resemble characters loosely, but really there’s no named human characters from that universe. I figured our resident Nurse Joy might get something out of comparing these more anthro/human Pokémon to the ones she knows, and decided to take that route in answering this question.

Near Pokédex M041 – Zubat

While I’m pulling from any ol’ era for this series, I am trying to get more of the original 150 Pokémon done when I can. Zubat occurred to me recently as a potentially fun candidate, so here one is.

I went back and forth on weather Zubat should have arms with bat wings coming out of the back, or just have bat wings for arms. While I haven’t gotten around to any bird Pokémon yet, my plan for them has always been to go the angel route over the harpy route, so I applied that logic here.

Near Pokédex M032 – Nidoran♂

Nidoran’s a bit of an odd Pokémon. With as many as their are now, I could be wrong, but I think they’re the only Pokémon with separate Pokédex entries for their males and females. They didn’t really know how to handle things like gender or breeding in the early days, so instead of just having males and females that look different we have two unique evolution lines. I did a Nidoqueen for the female side a while back, but now here’s a male Nidoran.

Studio Halloween Party Highlights 2025

Last year we started a new Halloween tradition of a highlight comic set in the Studio Halloween party. Like last year, our randomly-selected costume model, Space Beth, takes the center panel while we check in around the party with the rest. I know some characters who appear here may be hard to place, especially in the glory hole panel, and I imagine some will only be identifiable through the tags in the public post. I’m pretty happy with how this comic turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing some of the Studio residents enjoying the spooky season.