Bare-ita 3: All bets are off (pt.1- the boring set up)

As voted on, a sequel to Bare-ista where Ronnie and Emily both end up naked! (Although only Emily is naked in this portion of the comic and only for one panel)

Lots of credits for this one:

My wife did the coloring on these pages because frankly I don’t have an eye for shading which is why I mostly just leave it flat colors. It’s going to be a process to convert my wonky color choices into something that works with this shading style, but I think it’s going to lead to comics and pin-ups that not only look better but are done faster (and yeah, I know, it’s half a comic, that’s not colorings fault. Lot of life and work bullshit hit us this month so I haven’t had time to ink the rest of the pages! The first four of these were sitting finished on my tablet waiting for me to finish ink page 5 so it actually worked as set up.)

Cameos part 1:

Ace Reporter Maya O’Shaughnessy (and possibly Taylor’s Super Star Girlfriend who may or may not be Alyssa, I don’t want to drop that kinda lore on someone else’s OC but she was definitely the inspiration for the design) belong to San Penguino.

The customers in the last panel are the D&D group from MCCartoonist’s (most notably Meredith and Martin, but Danny, Eric, and Kurt are also there)

And finally, I didn’t plan on this comic being weirdly topic when I was writing it, I don’t follow sports but I remembered the football brothers from having a cereal a few years ago and thought that’d be a fun set up… only for one of them to marry Taylor Swift who released a song about his dick or something everyone hates (don’t follow Tay Tay news either!) as I’m writing it.

Also I think my politics are clear from how I have Ronnie talk (oh god… I hope no one’s interrupting her like a Cartman and thinking “yeah! The clear villain of the story gets it! They’re just like me!”) but I wanted to do a name reveal for the male reporter for sometime and my plan had been his name was “Kirk Mustachios” (like Millhouse’s Dad or Captain James T…), then a certain something happened and a C-tier podcaster became a right-wing martyr so changed his name to KURT (like Nightcrawler, Cobain, and Loader) to avoid making it look like a tribute. It’s a small thing and I’m sure most people aren’t even going to the notice the chyron with his name anyway, but still, goddammit!