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!
This is the second entry in my “CrossOver Kink” series. As a reminder, the premise of this series is that I have a list of characters, and use a randomizer to select two of them. From there I have a list of “kinks” (I use quotes here, ’cause a lot of them barely qualify as kinky) that I also randomly select from to apply to the pairing. So here we have Hit from Dragon Ball Super and Thorfinn from Vinland Saga, obviously. The kink they got was bath/shower, and I decided to go with a shower in this instance. Working with water is always a bit of a trial for me, I’m just not great at it, but I tried to incorporate it in a way that adds to the scene.
This is a pretty simple one, but one I thought might be fun to see. Canute’s talked before in Asks about enjoying ceding control and responsibility, and how he’s found that liberating in the Studio. I think this goes along with that, where even if Thorfinn’s a bit rough with him he won’t mind since that’s part of letting your partner take control.
Here’s the final page to this little comic. Everybody gets to finish on someone’s face. Some of you may remember that this comic was commissioned to help cover expenses following a personal disaster, but the commission I sold was for ten pages. This marks the end of the first half of that commission, and sometime down the road I’ll begin working on another five-page comic that makes up the second half.
I don’t know if Thorfinn has much interaction with any strong women in Vinland Saga. From my limited time with the series, the only strong woman I’m aware of is his sister. So I don’t know if there’s much canonical basis to work off of here, but there was at least one strong woman in the Studio I thought might remind Thorfinn a bit of home.
For Yuki’s spotlight One-Shot, an element of the script I ended up not utilizing was a request for bi elements. I felt like it distracted from the focus on her, and I ended up just not doing it. I figured this Ask would be a good way to make good on that a bit, and I tried to use characters who wouldn’t have been out of place in that OS.
Here’s the third page of Hot Yoga! It took me a little longer than I’m comfortable with to get around to it, but this page kinda transitions us into what’ll be the main meat of the comic in the next page. Our boys seem to be having fun, and I hope y’all are too and will look forward to seeing what they get up to in the next page (whenever that comes out).










