So this page put me in kinda a weird position, and I’m already regretting allowing the premise for this comic to go through the nomination process. I don’t want to linger on one form for too long, but of the four scripts there were basically only two options I could work with and neither were ideal. I ended up settling on a bit of a stop-gap solution, since the other option felt like a weird departure from what I understand the purpose of this comic to be. Next page Envy will be taking a new form, and I can only hope things will improve from there.

In the last page, Envy turned into Yuji in an attempt to dominate the Elrics. Here, we see that plan didn’t really work out for him. There were a few scripts with this theme to them, and I tried to combine elements from a few of them for what I hope will be a fun page.

Taking the yaoi slot in our four rotating monthly ongoing comics is “Shades of Envy.” The premise of this comic is to use Envy’s shapeshifting to give Ed and Al a bit of a wild ride, set in the Studio so they can have more of a fun dynamic (and more people Envy can turn into, as seen here). There were a few different ways people submitted for this to start, including multiple where Envy became Yuji. In the end I liked this approach as it gave me a chance to show base-form Envy a little, and I tried to give him some good angles before the transformation starts.