We’re seven pages in now, and these four seem to be having fun! Of the submitted scripts I really only felt like one was a natural continuation of the events so far, though there was some submitted stuff I expect will come up soon in future pages.
Goku and Vegeta trading partners is a concept I’ve seen done a few times. Amongst my Subscribers it’s been discussed a lot, too, but for one reason or another the closest I’ve come to drawing it is either just Goku with Bulma or the ladies with Vegeto. For a scenario I didn’t initially have much in the way of ideas for how to make it a scene, but hopefully the dynamic at play here works for people.
This is a Master Mini Commission for one of my Master Tier Subscribers. In the third episode of Dragon Ball Daima, they do the trope where the heroes get into a bar fight with some random scrubs. Even though the demons they fought there were never presented as anything even approaching a threat, I suppose the premise of this MMC is that they somehow managed to get the better of Goku.
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.
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.
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.
This Subscriber has been pushing for something with Beerus bottoming for a while. The biggest obstacle to this was that their Asks and such mostly hinged in this premise of swapping roles to train Beerus. Since Beerus isn’t the one who trains Goku and Vegeta, it never made much sense to me to use those questions. For Scenarios I have a bit more wiggle room to play with, however, so I basically abandoned that element of the scene to instead fork in dialogue about the character who’s actually training them, Whis, who I’ve already drawn with all three of these characters at different points.
So this is the other half of the Lord Tier commission that produced the Krillin stream from a few days back. The commissioner wanted to see a return of Gohan and Goku like they appeared in Special Training, and once again the comments left on the stream were left up to me.