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, at first for this one I thought it’d be really fun to show Canute in a costume here and then have him wearing it somewhere in the party montage. I really was struggling with getting an idea I liked, though, partly because I don’t actually know Canute that well and partly because I had other drama going on at the same time that made it hard to brainstorm. While I was thinking, though, I felt like Canute might enjoy giving some voice to others for this. A big part of his Studio journey has been embracing not being in control as much, and maybe he’d enjoy letting y’all suggest a costume for him. I think that also gives a bit more room for him to wear something he might not have thought up for himself. Obviously this will only be an interactive element for Subscribers, since the Halloween party will be finished long before this Ask goes public, but I’ll choose a fitting idea from the comments of this Ask and try to work Canute wearing it into the party somewhere. Like he hinted here, doubles costumes can work too if the idea’s good. I think this is the first time I’ve done an Ask with an interactive element to it like this, but I hope it goes over well and is fun for y’all. In this case it does kinda mean a boring image of just Canute standing around naked, but I think the eventual pay-off and knowing he’s wearing something one of y’all suggested will make it worth it.
This is the second entry in my “CrossOver Kink” series. As a reminder, the premise of this series is that I have a list of characters, and use a randomizer to select two of them. From there I have a list of “kinks” (I use quotes here, ’cause a lot of them barely qualify as kinky) that I also randomly select from to apply to the pairing. So here we have Hit from Dragon Ball Super and Thorfinn from Vinland Saga, obviously. The kink they got was bath/shower, and I decided to go with a shower in this instance. Working with water is always a bit of a trial for me, I’m just not great at it, but I tried to incorporate it in a way that adds to the scene.
This is a pretty simple one, but one I thought might be fun to see. Canute’s talked before in Asks about enjoying ceding control and responsibility, and how he’s found that liberating in the Studio. I think this goes along with that, where even if Thorfinn’s a bit rough with him he won’t mind since that’s part of letting your partner take control.
Maybe a bit of a straightforward or obvious answer here, but I think Canute and Desna could hook some good cock by presenting themselves as a package deal. For the guys the got for this Ask, I wanted to go outside the usual handful of tops I draw frequently, so they got Ogun from Fire Force and Yami from Black Clover.
Here’s the final page to this little comic. Everybody gets to finish on someone’s face. Some of you may remember that this comic was commissioned to help cover expenses following a personal disaster, but the commission I sold was for ten pages. This marks the end of the first half of that commission, and sometime down the road I’ll begin working on another five-page comic that makes up the second half.
I don’t know if Thorfinn has much interaction with any strong women in Vinland Saga. From my limited time with the series, the only strong woman I’m aware of is his sister. So I don’t know if there’s much canonical basis to work off of here, but there was at least one strong woman in the Studio I thought might remind Thorfinn a bit of home.
There had been another variation of this Ask where Canute was asked about similarities to other bottoms, but I think the answer I had in mind works just as well here as it did for that one. Canute doesn’t have a yandere twin sister (unfortunately), but beyond that I think there’s a lot of parallels one could draw between him and Desna. I think they make a cute pair here, too, and I hope y’all enjoy seeing them pose together.
I used Canute for the first Christmas party after his debut because I thought his royal cloak, which is red with a white fur trim, had a Christmas/Santa vibe to it. In that party he was shown sucking off Mark, as referenced in his answer. He didn’t appear in this most recent party, but I figured he could’ve had some fun with Denji. Denji’s grown a new appreciation for pretty guys lately with Haku and Zarbon, and Canute fits well into that.










