COMIC. First panel: Megan, a shark wearing a pearl necklace, floats in the middle of open water near a cliff. Atop the cliff is a chubby male human about to dive. Megan calls out to him. DIALOGUE: Megan: "Hurry up and jump, already!" Second panel: the human does a swan dive off of the cliff. Third panel: just as the human is about to make contact with the water, Megan pops out in front of him from underneath, mouth open as wide as it can go. The human dives right in. Forth panel: Megan swims down to the ocean floor, the human's lower half still hanging out of her mouth. Fifth panel: now on the ocean floor, Megan's friend, another female shark in a pearl necklace, swims up from the right side, smiling. Megan is on the left, the human's lower half still sticking out of her mouth. DIALOGUE: Megan's friend: "Morning, Megan! First catch of the day, I see?" Megan: "Mmphuhphum..." Sixth panel: Megan looks down at her full mouth, embarrassed. Her friend speaks from off-panel. Dialogue: Megan's friend: "Megan, don't you know it's rude to talk with your mouth full?" Megan: "Oh... sruh..." Seventh panel: Megan throws her head back and swallows, fists clenched by her side. Her belly suddenly becomes big and round. A written sound effect on her right reads "GULP." One on her left reads "BOING!" A silhouetted fish swims by in the background. Eighth panel: Megan looks down at her big, round belly, exasperated. Her friend stands next to her and looks down at her belly silently. DIALOGUE: Megan: "Not Bad. A little too much cholesterol."

Commissioned by dork95 on FA.

It was a lot of fun to recreate the look and feel of a comic strip I used to read all the time in high school.

Originally posted 1/16/23

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