For the tenth magazine cover I thought I’d break the model and do a couples pairing. A number of Studio couples were nominated for this page, but I decided to go with Goku’s parents since I thought they struck a good balance of being a popular, loving couple who have a good presence in the Studio but still feel underrepresented.
A lot of people like these types of comparisons when you have alien super species. I think power works differently in Dragon Ball than many other franchises, though, and tried to work that into the answer. I should also note that, despite what he’s saying here, Vegeta did decide to go blue on Mark.
Page four! Like with all of the SubscribeStar Ongoings, this comic was written using ideas submitted by Subscribers! Now that Vegeta’s fully on board, we can move on into the meat of the comic.
Gohan, Goten and Trunks is a trio I’ve drawn plenty over the years, but I don’t think I’ve done anything with their designs from Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. A simple one here, but one I hope fans of these versions of the characters will enjoy.
So this one may seem pretty straightforward, but I feel like I haven’t drawn Whis and Beerus much and thought they’d be fun to revisit. I kinda see these two keeping up their same dynamic in the Studio, even if they don’t carry their official titles and responsibilities anymore. I like to think Whis just genuinely enjoys taking care of Beerus.
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).
It’s true that I usually draw Goku in his base form, but I had a feeling this Ask was looking for a specific transformation I’d mentioned wanting to use for bottoming in the past. I haven’t talked about it much, but a third comic I never started alongside Special Training and Space Emperor Slut was focused on Super Saiya-jin God Goku teaming up with Whis to bottom to Beerus, so I used that for inspiration in handling this Ask.
I thought this premise sounded kind of fun, and I could kind of imagine how Vados might handle her Saiya-jins a little different than Whis. Hopefully people will enjoy seeing these Universe 6 ladies together.
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.
After helping a few others out with their Dares, Goku finally does one of his own. There’s been a small but vocal contingent of Subscribers looking to get Goku paired up with his mother for a pic. I don’t really see Goku as someone with much interest in his pre-Earth life or connections, but through this Dare he’s giving it his best shot.
Also, I don’t want to make a big thing of it since people come here to jerk off, but rest in peace to Akira Toriyama.
