This one went through a few stages. At first I had just Power posing, then decided to add in a couple anons. Then, last minute while coloring, I decided to make the anons Silas and Yoinks just for funsies. Anyway, I kinda liked the idea of Power incorporating a lesson suggestion from Denji, carrying over something he picked up during his past arc. Hope y’all enjoy.
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 here’s the other Spookyverse Bio I’m planning to go public in October this year. Obviously there’s some overlap here with Ember’s bio, but Silas has his own things going on. Of the human activities he’s been interested in through his investigations, I thought it’d be funny if he was interested in basketball. Maybe he identifies with the ball somehow.
Here’s another spooky Halloween Ask that my Subscribers got a few months early. I don’t know if Silas has a “slutty” side, but I feel like it’d be more accurate to say he doesn’t have the cultural stigmas and societal concepts one would need to develop such a thing. I didn’t really feel like it mattered who topped him in that sense, and just kinda let a random guy fuck him since I felt like that’s mostly what people would want to see from an Ask like this.
So there’s been a couple times where Silas and Eren have ended up sharing screentime together. I was just kinda tickled by the idea of Silas answering how he does here, and Eren showing a bit of a different side as well. I’m not sure exactly what it is about these two that I think is cute, but I hope some of y’all will agree.
Also, for anyone interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
There’s been a few attempts to get Evan King with the Holloways in one way or another, with both being fairly popular additions to my Spookyverse setting. While it’ll be January by the time this one goes public, for my Subscribers this is going to be the Halloween release, which I think is appropriate. I wasn’t planning necessarily to have a Halloween Dare for October, but I did like this one and so it worked out that way.
Last year we started a new Halloween tradition of a highlight comic set in the Studio Halloween party. Like last year, our randomly-selected costume model, Space Beth, takes the center panel while we check in around the party with the rest. I know some characters who appear here may be hard to place, especially in the glory hole panel, and I imagine some will only be identifiable through the tags in the public post. I’m pretty happy with how this comic turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing some of the Studio residents enjoying the spooky season.
I had a feeling when I gave the Holloways green hands and feet someone might want to see something like this someday. At any rate, I think Ember’s answer here speaks for itself.
So I know that this post isn’t going to go public until, like, January probably, but for my Subscribers this is the post that went up on Halloween. Last year a similar thing happened, with Silas doing what he called a “Halloween Dare” that didn’t go public until February. I feel like I’ve been doing a lot with Ember and Silas lately, but maybe that’s just because I don’t usually focus on my OCs too much. Regardless, I hope some folks will enjoy seeing the pumpkin-heads here again for this Dare that takes them a bit outside their comfort zones.
It’s been a little while since I’ve done anything with GeGeGe no Kitarō, and I thought there was a little potential here. Even though he’s not overtly inhuman, I do think Kitarō would feel more comfortable living where the Halloween and similar characters live in the Studio. I don’t remember if I’ve talked about the haunted castle publicly before, but Kitarō and anyone else who’d feel more comfortable there have their own spooky home in the Studio. I wanted to show Kitarō getting along with someone else who lives there, and decided to go with Silas since there’s been some demand.
