Distressed Damsels: The SCHOOL OF SHASTI story, pt.2; also, Dejah distress! (Patreon)

Part one of this commissioned DiD story can be seen here.

Whoops! I really thought there were at least a few more pages to this story fragment, but danged if I can find 'em; these first three images were all I could dig up on short notice. On the other hand, they do feature a bit of nudity (which I have to admit I'd entirely forgotten about), so maybe that makes up for the briefness of the comic? Anyhoo, I tacked on a bonus, wholly unrelated Dejah Thoris con sketch to round out this week's DiD post.

For the record, many of the stories I'll be posing here are quite a bit longer, with the "Yuri vs. Glue Gun Guy" one, for example, rolling on well into the 28-page range. (Yikes!)

And now, some notes, as Shasti literally—as in, literally literally—comes out out of the closet:

In a real Dirty Pair story, I would've put at least some effort into designing their dorm room. Luckily, this wasn't such a story!

No idea whatsoever as to what sport Kei's #18 jersey might be connected to, alas. 

Note that 2003 was an era of big lips and big racks when I was drawing the Lovely Angels; these tendencies will be noticeable as well when I serialize the "real" (if unpublished) 48-page story Dirty Pair: Quick and Dirty on this here Patreon.

Classic case of "cut-off figure" on that last Kei image; that foot doesn't connect with her leg because I drew the figure already cut off by the border, rather than drawing it intact on a separate sheet of paper. Then again, I can tell that I cranked out this page very, very quickly, so indulging in such time-consuming niceties was unlikely indeed.

The "hot cross-bun" riff of Kei's nipples is very likely a reference to the work of Satoshi Urashihara, the so-called "Master of Breasts."

In panel 2, I believe the, ah, indentations in Yuri's flesh around the seams of her underpants was a direct reference to a certain famously soft and fleshy Japanese gravure idol whose name escapes me;  the original commissioner was a big fan of hers in the early 2000s, so Iborrowed the riff from some of the idol's pics he sent along. 

Ah, the dreaded "brokeback pose" in panel 3! Don't think I did that much in Dirty Pair proper, but this wasn't a real story, so what the heck?

And thus "School of Shasti" wheezes to an abrupt and unceremonious ending, as most of the DiD story fragments will; once I hit a certain pagecount or ran outta available worktime, the pages cut off without warning. Shasti will continue to torment Kei and Yuri aplenty in future con sketches I'll post here, but this is the only story—okay, "story"—featuring her.

Finally, a Patron earlier requested John Carter of Mars' Dejah Thoris for an art request, and it turns out that, back in 2012, I drew a fully inked con sketch featuring her bedamseled:

Yeah, I think I did quite a few inked pieces like this in the summer of 2012, back before I developed the 11" X 14" con sketch format that I still use today.

TOMORROW: The serialization of the "tweet-novel" prose prequel dealie I Am Empowered moves to Thursdays, so I can leave Friday open for Comics Riffs I Love.

$20-TIER PATRONS: Stand by for a bonus DiD-inclusive sketch set based on your early art requests, to be posted at 12:00pm EST for your Big-Spending perusal!