DISTRESSED DAMSELS: 2002-ish ROSE & LILY pages of goofily speculative cheesecake! (Patreon)
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Behold, recently unearthed, "sketchy"-format pages that were part of an open-ended Dirty Pair DiD commission dealie with a long-time (small-P) patron.
They seem to be from the early 2000s, judging by the then-new stylistic riffs of "minimal nasal indication" (drawn on purpose) and, to quote from my Empowered webcomic commentaries, "Mysteriously Intermittent Post-Millennial Torso Glitch" (which was not done on purpose).
Note that these text-heavy pages are nosing into future Rose & Lily territory of raw cheesecake seasoned with wacky SF speculation, as the unseen bad guys are attempting to use the Lovely Angels' status as "catastrophe magnets" to boost the yield on some form of WMD:
Note the wasp-waisted "Mysteriously Intermittent Post-Millennial Torso Glitch" (MIPMTG) in effect on Kei above—or is that actually Rose? Have these hapless bad guys accidentally grabbed the DP variants that are actually distress magnets, not disaster magnets? Quite possibly!
...and we jump ahead to Yu—nay, Lily getting the same treatment, though by a more solicitous if still mostly unseen bad guy:
Yeahp, the MIPMTG is in full effect here as well! Golly.
Not sure where the bit re: "lip rolling" is from, let alone if it's actually true. I suspect the riff might've been derived from a convention conversation with an informative young lady from the, ah, "community"; that would be the same person who later informed me that I had gotten the difference between hemp rope and nylon rope exactly wrong in Empowered vol. 1. (Their "burn rates," apparently, are exactly the opposite of what I so cavalierly wrote in Emp's dialogue.) Whoops!
In panel 2 above, I do rather like the idea that (wasp-waisted!) Lily commands her smartsuit in a polite manner. Note that the hyper-stylized, cartoony riff of the "MIPMTG" was occurring unintentionally, as I breezily knocked out comic pages that weren't, well, "real comics."
I'm pretty sure that several more pages in this story do exist (before, as usual with commissioned DiD comic pages, the narrative ground to a halt inconclusively), but I haven't yet been able to track 'em down. If I do, I'll post 'em down the road, okay?
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure, TBH, but something should be going up Wednesday.
Also, as I just knocked out a damsel-content set of Clip Studio Paint sketches based on the remaining June art requests, I'll be putting up a new art-req post for the $20 tier within the next day or two. Stand by, Biggest Spenders!