Body Shift.

I have long wanted to do something with this cover, and for obvious reasons it seemed a natural for Femur's open Body Shift universe. Call it a tribute...

I love the composition on this cover. The steep perspective emphasises the woman in the foreground supposedly working with the microscope, while in reality she concentrates on the conversation going on in the background. I tried a couple of "think-bubbles" on her, but in the end, I think her pose and facial expression say everything necessary.

Sabotaged Into Skirts.

VERY well done. Her expression looks a little angrier than is, perhaps appropriate. I'd expect her to be relieved.

But yes, no thought bubbles necessary.

It could, perhaps, be rewritten with the girl in the background being the one who likes being a girl, while the one in the forefront is suspicious (and has the above-the-title narration), wanting to be a man again. (No doubt she'd learn the error of her ways in the story!)

I saw Dr. Carson's expression as more determined than angry, concentrating on Dr. North's conversation with the boss.

Suedenim has a great suggestion. I confess it was the two new girls' hairstyles that determined their roles. While both have fairly short hair (they've only been girls for six months, after all), Dr. North has a distinctly mannish cut, while Dr. Carson has obviously availed herself of the services of a stylist (and a colourist I suspect...).

Of course there is the question of why either of the two women feels she needs to sabotage their research into a "cure" for their female condition. Does she feel there would be a social stigma attached to her being a voluntary T-girl, if the anti-serum worked but she simply refused to take it? Or is she just concerned that financial and legal support from her employer might dry up? Or has the boss-guy fallen in love with the reluctant girl, and bribed the other to keep her in skirts?

I'd love to read a full story with any of these scenarios! I wonder if the original comic book story would support that? I suspect it actually might, as long as it's got some scenes of the girls Doing Science.

(Then again, I assumed the lead story for My Jet Dream Romance #1 would have lots of "girls Doing Science" stuff, and it had almost none....)

Test-tubes? Check. Bubbling chemicals in mysterious glassware? Check. Lab coats? Check. It's got to be another issue of Bodyshift.

Edited 30th July 2007: Corrected TGS logo background.

Better Living Through Chemistry

AndiJF: Even though I didn't comment on this new Body Shift when you first posted it, I did enjoy it.

I probably forgot to comment after having to look up "shegetz". ;-) This goy already knew what shiksa meant (even before The Nanny TV show where it was overused), but I don't think that I'd ever heard shegetz.

Hmmm... Good point SoCalSecrets. Perhaps I should have included a translation of the Yiddish terms, but I hoped they'd be clear from the context.

I've been a bit busy just lately, but I've managed to finish another issue of Bodyshift. I can't promise that there will be any further additions to the Meyer-Humbolt Serum "universe" but this cover seemed a natural.

A Certain Chemistry

SAB into skirts, CHEMISTRY, & a certain chemistry are LOL

I think it's about time for another issue of BODYSHIFT. This began life as a Charlton cover, so anything I did almost had to be an improvement over the original. I mean, didn't Charlton employ actual artists and designers?

Thanks For The Memories

Than ks for the memories! Is lOL!

My copy of the latest issue of BODYSHIFT was delayed in the post, but it's finally here. I adopted a slightly different design than the one I've used for my previous BS covers, because the usual "banner" at the top of the page looked cramped in this one.

There are several different versions of the legend of Tiresias in Greek mythology. Of course I have the one from Ovid in mind where he was miraculously transformed into a woman.

Edited to correct a spelling error...

Loyalty Divided

Interesting cover, Andi. The next senator? Does that mean the brunette has infected other senators?

Yes indeed Femur. I had in mind a story where the Tiresias Virus (no doubt cooked up in a sinister government lab...) has escaped. It's a sexually-transmitted disease that transforms it's victims into females (hot young babes, naturally...) who emit powerful attractive pheromones. Fearful of an epidemic, the government has been rounding up "v-girls" and imprisoning them in isolation "hospitals" (where abuse and unethical experiments are rife of course...). Escapees, and the few who've escaped the net, have had to go underground, where they've developed a medication that suppresses their pheromone production, shielding them from detection.

Our heroine has become involved in a group of hard-core militant v-girls who've adopted the strategy of infecting politicians, business leaders and other men too prominent, wealthy and influential to "disappear". She has obtained a job working as a secretary on Capitol Hill...

Terri is one of the "good guys" and stood by her friend when he became a girl; hiding her, coaching her, helping her establish a new identity. She has no idea that her best girlfriend is a guerrilla/terrorist...