Distressed Damsels: BIZSUIT MICROSKIRT BLUES, pt.1, plus bonus $20 DiD illo!

From 2003 or thereabouts, here are the first 4 pages of a commissioned DiD story featuring Dirty Pair's Yuri winding up in a distressing situation. Had a li'l more direction than usual with this one, as the commissioner in question wanted something featuring, well, a tight skirt, after a recent con sketch along those lines had caught his eye.

So, time for a tale of Yuri undercover, only for her disguise to land her in peril! Notes below:

As we'll see in a future installment, the "bizsuit" (business suit) that Yuri's sporting is derived from, I think, a fairly outrageous outfit in Hiroyuki Utatane's manga Seraphic Feather, for which I was doing the English rewrite courtesy of Studio Proteus and Dark Horse at the time.

The overall outfit was (probably) derived from a manga, but the microskirt was photoreferenced at least in part, probably from photos on deviantART.

Yeah, 2141-era comm technology is just as much of a hassle to deal with as smartphones in a contemporary horror movie. Side note: As much as urbanites and suburbanites love to bitch about the narratively convenient cinematic trope of "NO  CELL SERVICE," as someone who does indeed dwell in the boonies I can assure that such a thing really does happen all the time out in the real (rural) world.

The concept of "libidoquell" software recurs in another "real" Dirty Pair story, Quick and Dirty, which I'll be postingon this Patreon at some point.

Anyhoo, that's it for our first installment of Bizsuit Microskirt Blues, folks! 

Howeva, below is a li'l DiD bonus, in the form of two Clip Studio Paint damsel sketches based on queries from the few, the proud, the Big Spenders of the $20 tier, who get first dibs on art requests every month. One's an OC (original character), the other's Ninjette disguised as Batgirl; alas, the request to show Kozue's "toothsome rump" (per the Caged Demonwolf) prevented me from displaying the Batlogo on her chest to clarify matters. Oh, well.

TOMORROW: Stand by for another chapter of the Twitter prose experiment I Am Empowered, folks!