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.
I’ve drawn Vegeta with Goten at least once for the NHS Calendar (need to get back to that soon) but it was the shota version of the latter. Of course I’ve drawn Goten topping Gohan a fair bit, though again it was with different versions of the characters. I don’t believe I’ve ever drawn him with Gohan, and technically I still haven’t drawn him inside of Gohan due to how the dynamic of this threesome played out. I figured this might be a fun chance to explore a little something here with these versions of Gohan and Goten, and I hope people enjoy seeing them like this.
Like with the tenth magazine cover I wanted to do a pairing for the 20th, so I put the theme as parent/child pairings. There were a few good submissions, but I felt seeing these two together would be fun. This is the last magazine cover I’m gonna do for a while. I’ll probably come back to this series later, but I’m a bit burned out on coming up with themes for people to nominate for as well as new article teasers. In its place I have another series Subscribers can interact with for pin-ups that we’ll see the first entry of in about a month.
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.
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.
When the second match of the Tournament of Lust began, there was a little bit of bemoaning the loss of a potential Vegeta vs. Krillin round. While Vegeta and Krillin do share a lot of screentime together in DBZ, I’m not personally super high on doing much with them together. I figured touching on the pairing a bit couldn’t hurt, though, so here’s a brief interaction.
Omni-Man and Vegeta are two of those characters who you just see compared a lot, and with good reason. I’m pretty sure Omni-Man would have no problem with the bulk of the Saiya-jins in the Studio, given how many of them are from an earlier time and not up to DBZ standards. I didn’t want to commit to how he’d look at, like, Shugesh or Raditz or someone, though, so I’m limiting his sample size. I think even if Vegeta outright bested him he wouldn’t fully admit it, but at the very least there should be some begrudging respect there.
I’m not sure exactly what the expectation for this Dare was, but I thought it’d fit the more mature and developed Vegeta to not really fall for the provocation, but to commit to the bit anyway. Just a simple Dare here, but one I thought some folks might enjoy.