The UCBA Party Barge and Recovery ship is large enough and custom built to pull even something/one the size of U.M.B.Rage off the surface. The ship is roughly the size of the Fhloston Paradise, with slightly fewer pools and more space dedicated to kaiju sized med-bays. But it still is a party barge, and is generally considered a premier location to view the battles.

Sydney’s still wearing a bra, by the way. You can see part of the strap under Frix’s fingers if you look close enough. I drew her, then added him because I have a bad habit of drawing only the people talking in a scene, since each character I draw adds to the time to pencil, ink and color. But I figured I’d just be drawing neck to waist, and how hard can that be – oh right, even after all this time I don’t know what humanoid bodies look like, so naturally it took me like 30 minutes to pencil his torso, cause the arm position and the inside of the elbow joint looked weird and I finally had to go looking for reference, but of course, there are no pictures of really muscular guys on the internet standing in that position. They’re always flexing. Or maybe standing casually, but try to find a picture of a muscular man or woman lounging, or talking on a phone or resting their cheek on their hand and now you’ve got a challenge.

You know, sometimes I complain about my job, but then I remember that I have never once had to use Excel or sit in a Zoom meeting that should have been an email or had to sit through an embarrassingly outdated HR video. I mean, not at this job. I’ve done that stuff at other jobs. Well, Zoom didn’t exist back then. It was probably Skype, and there was never a point at which Skype didn’t suck a to a surprising degree.

Also, I should mention that Sydney is still sporting holo-boobs. Even still, she’s self conscious about exposing fake boobs so long as they’re attached to her.

Do you realize it’s 02-26-2026? If you reverse the order of the month numerals, you get 20262026! And if you’re a numerologist… that means you’re stupid! It has nothing to do with the date. I’m just throwing shade at one of the saddest pseudosciences just cause the date is almost a meaningless repeating number if you change the numbers so that they repeat how you want. I dunno what’s up with the drive by. Just feeling sassy tonight.

Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.

I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.

Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.

Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.