David C. Matthews has completed another four pages of his long awaited Dyna episode, "Menace in Metal." It's excellent.

It's always amusing to me the way artists who draw muscular women get "greedy" - I've discussed this with some of them, and most acknowledge it. The idea behind Matthews' Dyna is something similar to the Captain Marvel mythos - a normal woman with no powers owns a magical item that transforms her into a heroic figure of great power. In this case, the figure is extremely, ahem, heroic. But Matthews loves drawing buff chicks so much that even the nerdy alter-ego of Dyna, "Deena," looks like she's been spending four days a week in the gym for the last three years.

OK, I'm beginning to get the site architecture reined in. When you come to the home page, you will see both "Newsflashes" and blog entries. Basically, that's everything I've written lately except FAQs, with links to some older stuff at the bottom. If you click through to "Blog" on the left menu, you just get the blog entries without the Newsflashes.

Newsflashes will tend to be very brief - things I expect the readership will be interested to know but that I don't necessarily have very much to say about. Blog entries will tend to be longer.

Newsflashes come in two varieties, straight Newsflashes and "User tips".

Soon I will be adding a story archive and also a forum which will do double duty as a message board and a discussion thread for blog posts. I will also be adding a moderated gallery, as soon as I can figure out how to make it work and pick some people to do the moderating.

Please bear with me - I am using nearly all my free time getting this new site up to speed. I do hope to restore the lost Transvigor content, but for now that's not possible. I have restored all the paid advertising, which gets me back on the right side of the people who paid for it, I hope.

One more thing - if you aren't registering or logging in, you are missing some of the content and links. There are things I'm just not offering to Google and other search engines, and to people who just come here off the web. You're missing out if you don't sign in.

When Petra and her sister Fritz first appeared, as shown at right, they were simply big-busted party fodder. That was around 1990 - the image of Petra with the big boobs and the twig-like arms is from Complete Love & Rockets #10. In 1992 Gilbert Hernandez made the two the stars of his sex comedy, Birdland.