And here we have another case of two submitted questions that I think work together. Since both had kind of a simple answer, I figured Mark could address them at once.
And so now we officially end the second match of the first round, and we now know what the first match of round two will be. I don’t know how long it will take me to get the next page out to kick off the third match, but I’m hoping it won’t be too terribly long.
Last year we started a new tradition that we continue here. In 2024, the most frequently-appearing male character was Goku, while the same metric among newcomers was headed by Edward Elric. So, here’s the two of them paired up! Pretty simple, right?
The most frequently appearing character and the most frequently appearing rookie on the female side were the same gal, Kanamori. I guess I went a bit crazy with her, but there’s still a good chance she’ll end up being the top female performer for 2025 (we’ll see). Since 2024 was her debut year, however, we decided to let her have that spot and give the regular top female performer spot to the runner-up, the Butt Witch. Obviously these are two ladies I’m quite fond of, personally, so it was a blast to bring them together for this pic.
This is a Master Mini Commission for one of my Subscribers, featuring Frieza getting it from best pals Goku and Krillin.
It’s honestly an insane bit of coincidence that our April One-Shot winner ended up being this April O’Neil-focused script, but I’m here for it. April has a unique presence in the Studio, showing up in a lot of roles (such as the Spotlight Interviews or hosting Chi-Chi’s Fan Appreciation Tour) while only getting the spotlight shone on her occasionally. For the script here it was said April should be showing up in locations from the game, but I ended up not going that route as I had some other ideas I thought would be fun. So I put her with A-ko and Goku in the room where she MC’d A-ko’s ToL match with Krillin, had her crash an Ask that didn’t happen last month, and also made use of the couch seen in the aforementioned Spotlight Interviews. I did use a game location for the last panel, though. Also they asked for some dialogue, so I provided a bit.
This is a Mini Commission for one of my Subscribers, featuring Fasha with Bardock and King Vegeta. I can’t imagine any way this situation would’ve come up canonically, but it’s fair game in the Studio. Mini Commission selection is random, and if I’d known we’d be getting this pic so soon after the Dare with Bardock and King Vegeta I might’ve picked a different one, haha.
I’m not sure exactly how these two would see each other in the Studio. While his anger was pointed at Frieza, Bardock’s a bit of a rebel and I don’t see him being particularly nostalgic for being a soldier and towing the line. King Vegeta, while still using that title mostly to distinguish himself from his son, is not a king in the Studio and doesn’t really hold any more power or influence than Bardock does. I had this idea for an exchange between them for this Dare, though.
This is a simple one, but I just kinda thought these two made sense as friendly acquaintances. I had this idea for their interaction I thought might be cute, so I hope y’all like it.
When I first moved from Patreon and SubscribeStar, one goal I set up was to start a sequel to one of my completed comics when I got back to the same income I had on Patreon. It took longer than I would’ve liked, mostly staying just shy of it for what felt like forever, but we’re finally there (more or less). So, I ran a poll with descriptions of potential sequels for all of my completed comics, and the winning one was this, a sequel to Fire Mountain Bliss. Fire Mountain Bliss was an early commission that ended up sitting incomplete in my work folder for years, but I eventually finished it and released it just so all that work wouldn’t go to waste. That comic followed a quick affair between End of Z Trunks and Buu Saga Chi-Chi (as the commissioner wanted), so we’re mirroring that here in the Sequel with End of Z Goten and Buu Saga Bulma. I’m not going to try as hard to imitate the Pandora’s Box style here (that was also a specification of the original commission), but I am trying to keep it feeling like mostly the same aesthetic of the original comic. These two comics are set in a different continuity to my other Dragon Ball work, not just due to the mix-and-match designs, but also because I don’t think these versions of Goten and Trunks have a history of sleeping with their moms like in Chi-Chi the Sitter, etc.
Here’s the sixth page of our Bi Ongoing! Like always, this script takes elements from a few different submitted ideas by my Subscribers. I ended up combining and rearranging some stuff here, but I hope the final result is satisfactory.