NYC RADIO just sucks. There's nothing worth listening to. Driving along I find myself switching stations without a break, until I finally give in and listen to a CD. The funny thing is that if you get 10 miles outside NYC to the southwest, down near Newark Airport, you can get 106.3 FM, which is a terrific radio station. It's so damned strange that the great metropolis is such a radio wasteland--any given medium-sized city in the US has a better selection. And I thought I'd share my feelings with you folks.

COYOTE made this!

BURGOS GOES INSANE: OK, I think he's taking this amalgamation thing too far.

HARDING / FISHER: Well, I'm not really a fan of women's boxing, but if Tonya Harding and Amy Fisher put on the gloves, I'm gonna watch. Do you remember the muscles Harding used to have? I can't wait to see if she's still got them.

ANDREW SULLIVAN has posted his article about Blogging from the Times of London.

SO I GOT A BUNCH OF EMAIL--very welcome. I will excerpt it and post some later this evening. One person said he doesn't like all the WTC and political content, but likes everything else. By way of explanation: the thing about the WTC is that I see Ground Zero almost every day. It's like a missing limb or a lost child to me--it never goes out of my head for very long. The whole of my worldview has been forcibly reshaped by the attack and is stuck in a close orbit around it. I could write 1000 words a day on the WTC. I don't :-)

EEGORE writes (finally!):

Here's my colored version of the She Hulk-type character by Burgos. Tom sez she's an amalgam of SH, Koriand'r of the Teen Titans and Wonder Woman. Nice gene pool...

WOULD YOU GUYS please send me some g*dd*amn email? I'm flying blind, here! I'm getting 300 visitors a day and hardly anybody even bothers to write!

AUCTION WATCH 2: Power Girl (yummy!!) I love eBay.

AUCTION WATCH: She-Hulk ripping out of her clothes, by Chris Morea. He also did this one.

NOMDRESERV has posted a new story that features muscle transfer, among other transformations. It's a sort of theatre-of-the-bizarre type story, called "Poolside".

WONDER WOMAN: A new render by yours truly.

I HATE POP-UP ADS

BURGOS ART--She-Hulk with a horse's legs. Not sure what he's trying to do here.

DEANNA PANTING, one of the best looking female bodybuilders of all time, not to mention a pioneer of the sport while still a teenager, is now a skeleton sled racer. The profile says she weighs 170 pounds at 5'8", so I'm guessing she hasn't let those muscles shrivel up. And in case you had any doubt regarding her skill, she's really good.

ANOTHER BURGOS: This one's really cute, but you have to sign in to eBay because it's risque.

SPEAKING OF FITNESS: If you want to see an absolutely beautiful girl with a little bit of muscle, click on this Fitsights link, and then click on the 5th place competitor, Natalie Hunt. Here's another photo of this beautiful girl, and another. Shades of Alphie Newman?

THE FITNESS AMERICA PAGEANT has a cool Web page, with lots of photos of fine-looking muscle girls.

CHRISTINE LYDON: Good looking muscle girl, yes, we all know that. But did you know she's a B-movie queen? I had no idea. On second thought, after looking through the site, I don't think they're good enough even to be considered B-movies.

GOOD GOD! Ricko1973 posted a link to this photo, among others, on the Fistman's Finest Photos board on DtV. I'm moving to Athens!

THE WEEK BEFORE 9/11 I met a friend for breakfast at The Greenhouse Cafe in the South Tower of the WTC. The restaurant was partly composed of an atrium that opened up on the plaza between the towers and Church Street on the east. I imagine the atrium was flattened by debris when the second plane hit. I ordered oatmeal. I hope the staff got out--I hope they locked up and ran like hell after the first plane hit--I didn't see any of their obituaries in the New York Times. Sorry if I'm being morbid about this, but I'm a little drunk and I just watched a bunch of dumptrucks heading up West St. to go to the Holland Tunnel, and then to Staten Island, where their contents will be placed on a conveyor belt and screened for human remains. I don't know what possessed me to go down there.

I REALLY HOPE you guys are visiting Wreck-Shop's message board on a regular basis. The amount of muscle-girl art being posted there is phenomenal.

A BEARCHIVE THREAD about busty athletes.

THE STREETS ARE STILL DIRTY near the World Trade Center. I was down at Ground Zero a half hour ago, for the first time in about two months. The death loam still suffuses all the cracks in the streets and sidewalks, so that they still have a dirty gray-brown color. It's not nearly as bad as the first month after 9/11, when everything was still covered with soot, but it surprised me that it was still that way. Maybe it's because we've had so little rain or snowfall this winter.

SUPER GIRL POWER: Back up and running, lots of good comics-related muscle.

BURGOS AGAIN: Wonder Woman and a really sexy, very massive She-Hulk/Starfire/Wonder Woman amalgam.

BURGOS auctions nudie make-out pic of She-Hulk and Thundra, two Marvel muscle girls.

GUYXUS sends this link, filled with photos of the athletic En Vogue girls.

DIGITAL AMAZONS has some amazing renders of 3D muscle girls. I wish I had the hardware, software and talent to do work like that. One thing that troubles me, though, is how he creates his models to look as though they have breast implants, instead of the real thing. I mean, if he's going to so much trouble, why mimic a flaw?

MARJIE GILLIAM: Aside from her site, I haven't seen any photos of her on the Web--she's a fitness trainer in Ohio--but I think she's really got a fantastic body. In this photo, she looks to me like an "after" picture from an old comic book muscle ad, except she's a woman, of course. Just all charged up with vim and vigor.

WORKING ON MY RESUME tonight. Wish me luck--I am soon to be jobless and need to find something new. If I didn't have so many [sigh] responsibilities, I'd probably just join the Army so I could go kick some terrorist ass.

I heard a guy use the phrase "new economy" on the subway today, and I almost punched him. Rassin' frassin' Internet.

ATHLETIC GIRL 3D RENDER: From Renderosity, Les Amazones. Nice render, but I'd like to show this guy some real amazons. There's a bit of nudity at the end of that link.

BURGOS AUCTIONS: She-Hulk, uh...weird, Fantastic Four (sort of), Frightful Four (sort of).

GERI HALLIWELL PIC: Not very close-up. Hard to say.

YOKO MATSUGANE, actually. One more. And here is a gallery for her. Can you imagine the explosion she must cause whenever she walks into a nightclub in Tokyo? Hell, just walking down the street she probably causes car wrecks.

I THINK her name is Yoko Matsukane. She is very, very, very yummy. (Click each "very".)

Hey! 20:02 02/20 2002 !!! Palindrome!

NEW 3D MODEL for Poser, "Pamela". She's very busty and full-figured. Cute site.

Eric F., EnhanceMan writes to remind us of the character of Jungle Janet from The Tick. I looked online but wasn't able to locate much on this character. My recollection is that she's basically a "jungle girl" character, except unusually tall and muscular. Does anyone else have a resource to share?

LIMERICK OF THE DAY

A fragile young lad of eighteen,
Needed muscles to impress young Christine.
The potion ordered by this mister,
Was got instead by his sister.
Now she's big and strong--he's still lean.

CHAD SPILKER has a great site, filled with his drawings. A few of them (1, 2) are of muscular women wearing clothing. More of them (1, 2, 3, 4) are not.

LOOKS LIKE ISRAEL has taken off the gloves.

ELENIAK DOUBLE FEATURE: I wanted to watch both Chasers and The Opponent tonight, but I have to get up early and so only watched an hour of the latter. Still, the curling scene, with her right biceps popping out, is really incredible. She's perfect. Chasers is from 1994, but during the one love scene, you can see how fit and muscular she is--the male lead she was up against, William McNamara, looked significantly less toned and athletic than did Miss Eleniak. There was also a scene of her running around in her underwear, and it looked like the brassiere could scarcely contain her. In The Opponent, she looked just as good, despite "indie" style natural lighting and lack of make-up--and I'd guess she added a few pounds of muscle and brought her bodyfat down a bit. The Opponent, at least the part I saw, is basically Rocky with a hot chick. The funny thing: during early scenes when she's not supposed to be "fit", they try to obscure Eleniak's natural athleticism and muscularity. But there's one scene where she's doing push-ups, and they're trying to hide her arms by having a guy do pushups in front of her. But then she sits up, and you can see her biceps are large and toned. I definitely recommend both films--pick them up today!

RACINE-JOHNSON didn't win, but the other US team did. I would have preferred it the other way around, but you can't always get what you want.

TOM BURGOS auctioning a commission to draw & ink the winner's desire. It's for a 14" x 17" inked work, with up to seven characters.

AM I MAKING TOO MUCH of the Gea Johnson phenomenon? If the Racine-Johnson team wins in the bobsled today, I suspect we may see a boost in popular enthusiasm for truly muscular women. After the US won the Women's World Cup a few years ago, Brandy Chastain's fit physique was plastered all over the place, and was heralded as a sign that it had become acceptable for women to have pronounced biceps. Gea Johnson's thunderous biceps, I'm sure you've noticed, make Brandy Chastain look like the class weakling. Gea Johnson benches 265 for reps. TWO-SIXTY-FIVE. I think this is a big deal--if they win, women at gyms all across the country will be asking the instructors how to use the freeweights.

AN AMUSED but impressed Lisa Olson of the New York Daily News penned a tribute to Gea Johnson's magnificently muscled arms in her Friday column:

By the age of 5, Gea Johnson was already uncannily strong. She would flex on the sandy beach and lift little boys over her head, a carnival show in a pink ruffled bathing suit. By high school, she was bigger and mightier than many of the football linemen.

LOOKS LIKE a lot of you had nothing to do yesterday:

Visitors for last week divided per weekday:
2002-02-12: 252
2002-02-13: 199
2002-02-14: 164
2002-02-15: 160
2002-02-16: 193
2002-02-17: 177
2002-02-18: 335

CAN YOU TELL? I'm a little bored at work today.

GEA JOHNSON popping up in the news again, with this delightful excerpt:

Growing up, Johnson would pick up boys her age and press them over her head, like barbells. She was almost freakishly muscular even as a child, recalling how her mother and her high school classmates encouraged her to show off.

"It was always, 'Go ahead, Gea, flex,' " she said, " `show everybody how strong you are.' "

ALSO IN THE NEWS: In addition to the Wonder Woman movie I mentioned, Warner Brothers is working on a bunch of superhero films. All I can say is THANK GOD Tim Burton is off--that man sucks in so many ways it would require several hours to enumerate them--his fetish for big boobs is his only redeeming quality. I am a big Kevin Smith fan, though I wish he'd stop dressing like a slob. I'd be more than happy to buy him a drink at the Downtown Cafe one night, as opposed to Burton, whose ass I'd toss into the Shrewsbury River in a second.

GERI HALLIWELL is reputed to have slimmed down and muscled up a bit. Here's a photo from last month, and a story from today:

Halliwell, who is in Singapore to perform at a charity gala, showed off plenty of lean muscle in a black halter top and jeans and attested to the benefits of yoga.

I'll keep looking for a photo from this charity event.

BLOGSPOT seems to be down. Not sure why. If you're seeing this, that's a good sign--I can't get through.

WONDER WOMAN: There have been numerous arguments on the Wonder Woman fan boards about who should be chosen to play the busty amazon in an upcoming movie. Apparently Sandra Bullock is under consideration. She's cute--I'll give her that. But unless she's been slurping down MetRX and estrogen supplements since the last time I saw her, she ain't exactly gonna be stretching the seams on Linda Carter's leotard. Plus we expect some level of physical power from Wonder Woman--even Lynda Carter, it's said, began lifting weights when she was cast as Wonder Woman. So why not Erika Eleniak? She's awesomely pneumatic--Carter's aforementioned leotard would rupture before it contained her curves--and we know now that she's got the muscle! One argument might be made that she's only 5'5" and thus too petite to play the amazon, but the solution to that is to hire short actors to play opposite her. It works for Tom Cruise, after all.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A girl who'd been beaten and hurt,
Used magic to trigger a growth spurt.
She got big and strong,
Punished the boy who did wrong:
Held him aloft, said, "Apologize, squirt!"

COOL CAT STUDIO started as an online comic, but it's now being printed in book form. One character, named "Bones", is a muscular young woman (this is what we call irony, class). My perusal of the archives shows Bones first appearance here. Then she showed up here. After a long wait, she showed up again, 1, 2, 3, 4, perhaps a bit less muscular than in her first appearance. She was absent for a few weeks again, but then showed up a little slimmer still. Now that the comic is being printed, issue number 2 is concerned with Bones' desire to grow even more muscular, and whether she's willing to resort to steroids to get there.

DC COMICS launched their new Website at some point in the not-too-distant past. I didn't check it very often before because it was so awful. Now it's pretty good, but it's got the standard AOL/Time-Warner top menu bar, which dismays me. Plus when you go into the "News" section there are a number of articles culled from Time Magazine, etc. How long until they just kick out the brakes and make The Daily Planet an AOL/TW publication?

FEMALE SUMO wrestler tells all.

BAD ASS BARBIES: The Cy Girls collection.

MAIKO OSAWA again. I really like this girl--though I've had a DEVIL of a time finding Web resources dedicated to her. And here's a slow site that has even more photos of her. She doesn't look so buxom as in the photos I blogged last week--certainly not a 100cm bustline. Maybe she's since put on some weight, or maybe she's had a little bit of work done.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A shapeless young lass up in Goshen,
Rubbed on sunblock that was doped with a potion!
For space her breasts tussled,
As her body grew muscled.
Boys stare--she now bathes at the ocean.

COMICS ARTIST Casey Jones has some nice pics on his site. His girls don't show much in the way of muscle mass, but some of them (1, 2 (nudity), 3) do have a rangy muscularity. Here's a nice inked and colored Wonder Girl cheesecake image, with thick arms. Plus he even has a drawing of one of my favorite comics girls: Penny Century! With muscles!

FARSCAPE fan fiction featuring a women who grows muscular when she gets upset, right here. I like the show--have seen it numerous times on the SCI-FI channel, but fan fiction generally leaves me cold. Maybe some of you folks will like it, though.

GEA JOHNSON is a really big, really strong woman. She's on the US bobsled team at Salt Lake. And she has her own site.

BUSTY MUSCLE-GIRL photos of beautiful Torrie Wilson on alt.binaries.pictures.bikini.central. Post date of 2/17. There are a lot of pictures of Miss Wilson online, including this very sexy photo. She's also apparently affiliated with the WWF.

JUNGLE GIRL motif, rendered in Poser.

GHOST WORLD: Saw it last night on VHS--Thora Birch looked a little bit chunky--past voluptuous--but still, wow! This is a girl who must be introduced to Body for Life--imagine her with muscles! The big-chested, pouty-faced ingenue look alone is enough to make me light-headed, but add some biceps and I'm in heaven. Miss Birch even looks a bit like a girl I once dated--but if that girl had a bust like this, she'd be Mrs. Lingster today.

BOSWELL, who's really a terrific muscle growth artist, has his own page! A lot of you will remember him from his work at LH-Art, or from this page that that's been pretty widely distributed over the last few years. I found him linked from Wreck Shop's site.

NO FURTHER UPDATES 'TIL SUNDAY EVENING. Mighty Lingster is taking to the highways and byways. Hypothetically I might find a "cyber cafe"--if such things still exist--but it's unlikely.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY

A girl from the lakes of Minnesota,
Had a sip from a can of "Big Girl Soda"
And like in her dreams,
Muscles burst through her seams.
Of muscle she's got much more than her quota.

BUCKAROO BANZAI: One of the coolest DVDs I've seen! Lots of cut scenes added to the film, including a previously unseen opening featuring Jamie Lee Curtis! A very nice piece of work.

SEROCO CHEMICAL is listed as the manufacturer of the breast growth cream mentioned in the previous post. I'm guessing that "SEROCO" is an acronym for "Sears Roebuck and Company". Anyway, here's a teaser for a romance novel that mentions the SEROCO breast cream, and the home page of the author. Maybe she's given new meaning to the phrase "bodice ripper"?

HOLY COW! An ad from the 1909 Sears Roebuck Catalog advertising a breast growth formula. Check this soon, the link will go dead by the end of the day, I think.

TWO BUSTY 3D BABES from the swords and sorcery genre, courtesy of Wyrmmaster. One is dark and busty, and one is light and busty.

OH, YEAH: Happy Valentine's Day! My posts may be a little sporadic over the next few days as I will be on the road.

EEEGORE'S OLYMPICS REPORT:

Just got back from five days at the Winter Games, and even though every athlete is covered (at the least) in neon spandex, there is some obvious female thunder on display. The most obvious for me was at Tuesday's women's downhill. I got a close look at the medalists during the "flower ceremony," and silver medalist Isolde Kostner has thighs that could pulverize a coconut. It was a sight well worth the half-hour wait in security.

GUEST LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A young girl known by all as a fox
But so weak she could not lift a box
she began to work out
until she could shout
Look at me I'm as strong as an ox

-Ffejl

OK, OK, it turns out Erika Eleniak didn't fall of the face of the planet--she just moved to Calgary, Alberta. (Same difference as far as I'm concerned.) Nexis shows there to have been a number of stories about her over the last six months in Canadian newspapers, but none of the newspaper sites I've checked have very good archiving features. Several have none at all.

I CAN'T GET OVER the biceps Erika Eleniak shows off in the photos Boomer posted. Apparently the movie they're taken from, The Opponent, is 18 months old, but never enjoyed wide release--it opened in New York on 15 March 2001, after a screening the previous October at a film festival. Funny thing is, I can't find any recent photos of her. How a staggeringly gorgeous, busty and now muscular former star of Baywatch can seemingly drop off the face of the planet, I have no idea. But I can't wait to get my hands on that DVD!

GUEST LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A small girl from near New Orleans
knew it was Lingster she wanted to please
so she took a small pill
and found with a thrill
she could bend steel with effortless ease

-FfejL

AT BOOMER'S SITE you'll find some still photos of Erika Eleniak, who has apparently built herself some serious muscle to go with her big boobs.

I DON'T RECALL ever having posted a link to Ahern's GYMGIRLBELLS site before. He's an artist who draws pictures of absolutely enormously muscled women. I particularly like this one and this one.

APPARENTLY Ally McBeal was briefly transformed into a muscle girl on last night's episode. I will post a link when I find it.

FOR FASTER POSER work I will be doubling the RAM of my graphics workstation to 512 meg later today. One thing that was REALLY giving me trouble was working with multiple high-polygon-count figures at a time. The machine got a little slow with 2, and then got really slow with 3. So we'll see what it does with half a gig of RAM. Half a GIG! Man, my first computer--20 years ago--had 1/100,000 that much memory.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A young gymnast who'd always been weakish,
Found a ring that would grant her unique wish.
And before very long,
Her limbs grew quite strong,
With muscles so big that they're freakish!

MAIKO OSAWA is the name of the Japanese "giantess" I posted last night. Apparently her claim to fame is a 100cm bustline (40 inches). More photos of her here.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A strong man took a sip from a beaker,
And slowly shrank smaller and weaker.
But the girl next to him,
Gained height, mass and vim!!
She looked down, said "What a pipsqueaker!"

BIG BREASTED ASIAN fetishists and giantess fetishists will like this. Why? It's a photo of a busty Japanese giantess.

LESS THAN 2 hours until this auction expires. Sexy drawing of Marvel's Black Widow.

I WAS JUST watching Jewel on Direct TV, she was blabbing on and on in a song about various imagined injustices. She may be annoying, but God has she got a great rack!

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A pretty young girl name of Meg,
Lacked her brother's aid moving a keg.
Considered at length,
She wished for his strength.
Now weak, strong Meg's aid he must beg.

I WONDER if those melons came with the meal, or whether the restaurant is BYOB (Bring Your Own Breasts)?

NICE AUCTION sketch of Red Sonja. I won't point out the irony of a kid on a kibbutz using eBay. Oh, whoops; I just did.

ZBRUSH renders have a disturbing, hyper-real quality about them that borders on grotesque. They remind me of some of the Ivan Albright paintings on display at the Chicago Art Institute. It still seems like a great tool for editing 3D objects--for instance adding realistic muscle to female figures--but the rendering engine doesn't capture the sense of depth and reality that some others do. I think I'll stick with Poser for now.

NAKED MUSCLEGIRL 3D render done from scratch using ZBrush. I'm considering a purchase of ZBrush because of its rendering engine and the ability to make changes to the model after setting a scene in Poser. But I'm not terribly thrilled with the output...so I still have some evaluation to do.

STAR WARS fans will enjoy this 3D render.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A muscle-bodied boy from Danbury,
Bragged of his strength to young Cherie.
A witch, in a blur,
Transferred his muscles to her!
Strong? Now he's not, but she's very!

JUNGLE DE IKOU cover.

WEBSITE OF BUSTY girl art here: COOPSTUFF.COM - The Official COOP Website and Online Store

TECHIE amusement. Totally off-topic, but funny.

AUSTIN POLICE: "very pro-breast".

AND HEY, couldn't she just wear sun screen?

THIS NIGHT GIRL THING is stuck in my mind! Can you imagine how cool it would be to have a girlfriend who was slender and weak during the day, but muscular and super-humanly strong at night or in a dark room? Imagine making love just before sunset, when all of a sudden her body would grow thick with muscle, and she was able to effortlessly roll you over to the bottom. And then the inverse--she's holding you down with her powerful arms one morning when you manage to flick open the curtains with your foot. Suddenly her mighty arms are mighty no longer, and she's left with only a fraction of your own strength. Whew! It's a good thing I have a wrap-around desk here at work.

LIMERICKS are starting to trickle in! Keep 'em coming! I will start running them tomorrow, crediting the authors.

TOM BURGOS posted a bunch of new drawings last night on eBay, only two showed any muscle development--one of Wonder Woman and one of Dr. Mid-Nite. He did that same thing again, enabling the "Buy Now" feature at $20, so all but one of the drawings are sold as I write this. On the Burgos Appreciation Society club on Yahoo!, they think he's doing this to enable his fans to afford his drawings. But other people have told me that these eBay auctions represent a significant portion of his income stream, so I'm thinking he wants to make some fast cash, rather than waiting the week or ten days that would be required if the auction went the distance. Still, he's damned talented. If he's got any skill with sequential art, the comic book companies ought to be courting him.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A weak limbed maid from Hong Kong,
Said to a genie, "I wish I was strong!"
But due to his treason,
She grew muscled beyond reason!
She hit him and he flew a furlong!

BIG CHESTED JAPANESE girl on crutches. Odd, but somehow sexy. From Forest of Breast. Also, Yuko Aoki showing off her 93 I cup breasts (that's metric).

ANOTHER POST at DtV's Muscle Growth Board --this one by "Rob"--highlights a young woman of average build, who was successful in her goal to add some real muscle.

DAVID ANNAND notifies comics fans at DtV's Muscle Growth Board of a new Marvel comic coming out, and of two (1, 2) preview images featuring the She-Hulk.

NEW GROWTH STORY at DtV, called "Becky: A Growth Story". Spelling, sentence structure, grammar and paragraphs are all well-formatted, which is refreshing. On the down-side, the author--"DOC"--has some trouble pacing the story, and he gives in to the temptation of growing "Becky" beyond normal human scale, though in his defense he uses contextual props to aid the reader's imagination.

JUNGLE DE IKOU: Is there a new episode available on DVD or VHS? I'm trying to find out. If you haven't seen the first episode, check here. If you like growing boobs, it's hard to do better than this.

I RECEIVED no "Limerick of the Day" submissions from you guys! Come on, now! I want to see some action, here. I have written a bunch more, but I'd like to get some variety. Haiku will also be accepted, as will sonnets and other verse and rhyme forms.

WRECK-SHOP's site is good, but his message board is really, really great. One thing I really like is the artists' section. Gideon, for instance, has posted a bunch of non-furry, incredibly sexy muscle girl stuff to Wreck-Shop's board--which is great from my perspective, because the "furry" stuff creeps me out a little.

AND HERE is a relevant piece on the the Legion of Superheroes.

A PAGE dedicated to Night Girl.

NIGHT GIRL: It occurred to me this morning that when I linked this drawing from Tom Burgos, I may not have been doing enough to educate my readers. Several of the drawings he practically gave away over the last few days are of members of The Legion of Substitute Heroes. Now, the Legion of Superheroes is an old DC Comics standby, filled with teenagers with silly names like "Ferro Lad", "Invisible Kid" and "Dream Girl". So the Substitute Heroes was a parody-within-the-continuity, of kids with even sillier names and powers than those in the Legion proper (i.e. "Bouncing Boy", "Matter-Eater Lad", "Infectious Lass"). "Night Girl" was a young lady who desperately wanted to be a superhero. Since her father was a leading scientist on her planet, he crafted a serum that gave her fantastic physical strength. But as she grew up on a planet that had a very dim sun (not Chinese food), it was always night time there. When she journeyed to Earth to try out for the Legion, she was confounded that somehow she'd lost her superhuman strength, and was no stronger than any other teenage girl. She was rejected from the Legion, but that night discovered that her fantastic strength had returned! Sunlight, it seemed, had the effect of negating her strength. What had never been done in the continuity of DC Comics, though, was to render her as muscular.

In my mind, this creates the interesting effect of Night Girl being tranformed before the eyes of her father and brothers into a muscle honey, but then showing up for Legion tryouts with her fabulous muscles gone, her formerly-tight clothing hanging from her skinny, girlish frame. And then that night, after having purchased new clothes, her muscles burst through them as they once more swelled to gigantic size. Cool, huh? Thanks, Tom Burgos!

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A small-breasted girl from Seville,
To avoid trouble began taking "the pill".
But her breasts, unintended,
Grew huge (tho' quite splendid).
Each mountain had grown from a molehill!

I GUESS BURGOS needed some quick cash this week, because he sold a mess of drawings at just $20 a pop! One of them is so sexy it nearly broke my heart. And some others, i.e. 1, 2, 3, are really good, too. Damn! I wish he'd let them go up for full auction! I am certain he would have made more money if he let them go to full auction.

Also, I think he's getting better at rendering facial features.

BURGOS RETURNS!! A cartoonish drawing of three muscular superheroines. Very nice.

NEW COMICS DAY PARTE DEUX: Goose egg. Nuttin'. Nada. No talent. No show. There were some vaguely hot chicks in the CrossGen titles, but that company produces shit. Lingster's Fourth Rule of Comics: If you can read a whole comic book without seeing a character with irises and pupils, the comic book company that published it is either pulling your leg or really and truly sucks. CrossGen is not pulling anybody's leg.

NEW COMICS DAY! Visit this afternoon to get Lingster's take on this week's comics!

24: I watched this show last night, and I'm more than a little disappointed. The only real babe on the show is the daughter, and frankly I'm a little old for her. Still, the time factor, tick-tock tick-tock, is really compelling and definitely ratchets up the suspense. I've noticed that some of the better FMG transformations also have time as the salient factor, i.e. Marknew's beach drain in "What I Want" or Nomdreserv's match sets in "Tennis". I'm not really sure why this would be, unless it's just the sheer suspense factor and not related to the fetish.

Do you agree? Let me know.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY

A weak skinny girl who was poutin'
Drank deep draughts from the "Muscle Growth Fountain".
Gaunt limbs--once so sick'ning,
Were suddenly thick'ning!
Weak? She can bench press a mountain!

I HAVE RUN out of Limericks of the day, as of Thursday. I'm going to try to write some more, but I wouldn't mind submissions.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 1997:

Ten years ago, at the age of 37, Mari Jalbing's athletic history amounted to a few games of halfcourt basketball in the eighth grade, when she was more focused on her hair than the hoop. She thought she did not have a competitive bone in her body. Then she joined the masters women's rowing team at the Seattle Yacht Club and discovered the truth.

Now, the muscles in Ms. Jalbing's shoulders and arms have grown too big to fit in the jacket she wore with her wedding dress almost 25 years ago. Her legs are firmer, more powerful. Her growing collection of national and international medals is proudly displayed in her home just a few blocks from the club, where she rows with her team of 30 women at 5 A.M. four days a week.

For some reason that second paragraph stuck in my mind all these years.

LIMERICK OF THE DAY:

A loathsome boy hailing from Pontiac,
Told his girlfriend, "I'm a coprophiliac!"
She sneered at the kid,
Showed muscles she'd hid,
And beat him to make his composure crack.

(No idea how I came up with this one.)

A MUSCULAR, naked sort of vampire chick thing, I think. Maybe. Neat looking anyway, for a 3D render.

NUDE ASIAN GIRL.....WOW!!! Her name is Yukimi Tohno, and she is one very, very, very busty Japanese girl. She kind of reminds me of an Asian Jennifer Connelly.

A NICE SPINACH growth story has turned up at DtV. The author, "Madison Marbury" has a problem with puns and should seek treatment in a licensed 12-step program forthwith. The story is called [groan], The Purple Rose of Chiropracty.

THIS GUY TEBRA seems to get a kick out of transforming comic book characters in some way--here's a race-swapped Wonder Woman.

PAM ANDERSON makes a "big impression".