I don’t typically do fanart, but I might have just Oingo Boingo’d the entire cast of the Saiyan Saga from Dragonball Z. If you don’t know what it means to Oingo Boingo something, that’s OK. But if you do, then we should be buds. Also, I will soon be offering a service to Oingo Boingo any image you would like (can you say Oingo Boingo Profile pic?!) for just $5.00! What a steal!

It’s so rare I get to sit down and just draw whatever comes to mind. Here is a kunoichi (female ninja) wielding her deadly kyoketsu shoge. 

FAQ:

Q: Won’t arching your back reduce the range of motion your pectoral muscles work in?

A: Do you wanna lift heavy weights, or do you wanna lift heavy weights?

Q: Couldn’t you hurt your back by arching it so much?

A: Do you wanna lift heavy weights, or do you wanna lift heavy weights?

Q: Won’t you hurt your wrists by gripping the bar so widely?

A: Do you wanna lift heavy weights, or do you wanna lift heavy weights?

Q: Isn’t it possible to induce a stroke by holding your breath while straining so hard?

A: Do you wanna lift heavy weights, or do you wanna lift heavy weights?

Q: Couldn’t it be considered a bad idea to get workout advice from a crudely drawn cartoon?

A: … I have no more time for this foolishness! Begone!

I don’t care if it’s Retro-Saturday, this happened to me the day before yesterday and I absolutely had to make a comic about it. This one isn’t funny. I don’t think I’ve ever made a more serious or important comic in my life.

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Something I haven’t been explicitly open about on this site is the fact that I’m transgender. That is, I’m a woman whose gender was assigned as ‘male’ at birth.

It’s absolutely not anything I’m ashamed of, but it’s also not something I feel defines who I am, or, really, is anybody else’s business. But I do know that when I was still figuring out life, that I really could have used more ‘normal’ media talking about trans stuff. Not seedy fetish sites. Not weird Japanese cartoons (also highly fetishistic :p ). Not even trans forums (where there are tons of good people ready to help but where it still felt ‘taboo’ to my timid and confused self). It needs to be on neutral ground alongside other, non-trans related content.

So I think it’s important that I make that a part of what I do here. Also, the experience of being trans is just straight up a goldmine of comedic material! How could I not make webcomics about all the weird shit that happens to me on a daily basis? So, I’ll be devoting some of my webcomic postings now and then to my ongoing series, entirely based on my life, called “Life of Bria“! (how could I not call it that?)

More concept art for my next graphic novel coming hot on the heels of Time Tourists. If dinosaurs are going to have feathers now, they might as well be a little more fabulous. I say give them lion’s manes and leopard print!