This is a little something I cooked up with two new Applebridge characters, Brandon Johnson and Xavier Williams. They’re both members of Applebridge High’s basketball team (alongside Cal Foster, if y’all remember him). They both have their own backstories that I’ll get into whenever I do their Bio pages, but for now all that matters is that they have a very… spirited rivalry, as this comic explores.
This is kind of a simple little Ask, I know, but I know some folks are wanting to see a bit more of Jasper but I also don’t want to spoil too much about what’s planned for his story in For Whom the Bells Toll. I thought this might serve as something of a cheeky little tease.
So for the longest time I’ve had designs, personalities, backstories, etc. in mind for parents to a lot of established Applebridge characters. These parental figures are not, as of yet, involved in any stories or anything, so there was never any need to debut them. However, I thought it’d be useful to expand the setting a bit by establishing who these figures are, for characters who live with their parents. Every character has their own situation, of course, and I figure I can use the Applebridge Bios series to flesh these things out.
We’re starting with Corey Park’s dad, Max. Now, both of Corey’s parents are a bit distant due to their own lives and ambitions, which is part of what allows Corey to run the racket he does, but they’re loving parents in their own ways. Corey’s mom will be the next one of these I do, though it may be a bit before I get to her.
I feel like this is a pretty straightforward and obvious pairing that I probably would’ve already done by now if I hadn’t fallen off Corey content somewhat. I do think the dynamic here is a bit different due to the nature of the Ask, maybe usually Corey’d be a bit rougher with someone like Tremaine, but I like this pose. There’s something about how Tremaine seems like the kind of woman to keep her heels on during sex that makes seeing here feet feel more scandalous than just seeing her naked.
I’ve mentioned this before, but up until now I’ve been inking/coloring old pages I sketched out many years ago and left sitting in a work folder. We’re now officially into new pages, but I’m gonna do my best to match the style and pacing and everything I set back in 2016.
Here’s the next batch of pages for this story! My hope is to wrap up this chapter in the next batch, but we’ll see how things go.
This here is the last of the original pages I’d sketched back in 2015/16 when I was first planning this comic. This means that, starting from here, I’ll have to put together new pages. I do remember where the comic was going to go and I don’t think it’ll end up that different from the original vision, but it might mean the pages will be a little slower coming out than they have been.
I didn’t intend for it to be so long after his dad’s bio, but here’s a bio page for Jonah Bell!
I wanted to answer this Ask because I thought Terry’s response would be enlightening and add a little more info to his Applebridge scenario. I didn’t have much in mind for the visuals, though, so I went with letting Terry, Mickie and Rosalynne show off the goods. It was always my hope to eventually do something between Terry and his mom, although I don’t know if or when that’ll actually happen. Her being secretly privy to Terry’s relationship with Mickie would help facilitate that, though, and maybe we’ll see something more from these three down the line. Also, this Ask marks the first time I’ve drawn Rosalynne naked, so that’s something.
It’s been a minute since Loren’s gotten to show his bratty side, and I thought this could be kinda fun to see. The irony of this Ask is I actually have something planned with one of his parents, but it’ll probably be a good while before that project gets around to seeing the light of day.
