[Mr Burroughs]

This looks really promising. We knew, from the teaser, that the character CGI wouldn’t be too bulky. It’s a nice translation from the John Byrne design, maybe just a little slimmer. Some on-camera growth, some compliments of just how hot she is in this body. As a fan of the “My Fair Lady” factor in transformations, that’s nice.

My only concern is the very quick shot of Titania walking through a busted wall. She’s wearing a pretty silly-looking costume, and looks about the same as the actress (the 5’10” and very pretty Jameela Jamil) does without CGI. I hope this isn’t like “Wonder Women 84,” where the villainess gets super strength but looks the same. Titania’s supposed to grow to 6’6” when she gets her powers, won’t be nearly as fun if she’s just a tall model.

[Mr Burroughs]

Found a few preview images as the issue gets closer. One is from what seems to be the “reprogramming” sequence, with She-Hulk resisting and her muscles bulging. The other is from the last page, which reveals a bit more costume than the cover but hopefully not the plot. (I mean, we know she’s turning into a Winter Hulk.)

I’m optimistic, even though I’ve missed the old Jen Walters attitude with this new, big “Hulk” body and assume it’s getting sidelined again to tell this story. Just gimme a few more issues of that Slott arc: Bulked-up She-Hulk, amazed at how much bigger and mightier she’s gotten. One of the great missed opportunities was that issue ending with She-Hulk touching her massive right bicep, wondering “just how strong have I become,” only for the muscle to be written out within three more issues.

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[Mr Burroughs]

This episode is up now, and it’s fun. As in the original “Captain America,” the growth happens offscreen, with Carter inside the super soldier tank – she goes in normal-sized, comes out tall and muscular. (“You won’t be needing those heels anymore,” Howard Stark says.) Apart from a few scenes in her 1941-era undershirt, which stretches to fit her new body, Carter mostly wears either an Army uniform or her Captain outfit. So the fun is from seeing how she smacks around Nazis and how she measures up to, or towers over, other characters. Steve Rogers stays puny, so we get some fun scenes of a shrimpy guy flirting with an amazon; the animation’s a little smooth, but it’s good at portraying, for example, how his hands now look dainty compared to hers.

[Mr Burroughs]

I searched for this earlier, but didn’t see a link to it, only to a preview for the second season of “Harley Quinn.” I’d finally set aside some time to catch up, and realized this scene was just sitting there.

In the show’s first season, in the episode “Devil’s Snare,” a magic-powered villain tampers with a water supply to create evil, giant trees. Poison Ivy, voiced by Lake Bell, theorizes that she can grow larger and fight the trees if she drinks it. And voila: She bursts out of her clothes, grows to 50 feet tall (complete with an “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman visual joke), and starts apologetically crushing her enemies.

The scene is more about size than muscle, but the show has fun with the sexiness of it all – ground shaking, sleeves and pant legs shredding, Ivy’s voice booming as she towers over the rest of the cast, which starts complimenting how “great” she looks. (“You could have gone bigger!”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y74c03cFGaU

[Mr Burroughs]

My favorite story in years is “Rise of the Guardian,” a three-part MuscleFan comic that plays with the old “hero’s quest for power” trope. A petite elf in some D&D-styled setting drinks a potion, grows big and strong, then learns more of these potions are hidden across the kingdom. Haven’t seen anything else by “Edward Gibbon,” the author, but he tells a good story, sketches cute characters, and lingers not just on growth scenes but on the fun the heroine has with her growing body. Attached below: A panel of her visiting a bar on her quest for the second potion, and a panel of her, struggling to fit through the door, after she’s drunk it.

Non-illustrated favorites:

“There’s an App for That” by Robclassact, about a quartet of friends who play a game that changes their bodies in a different way every hour. (Caveat: There are a bunch of fetishes thrown in along with two characters’ steadily growing size.)

“Mistress of the House” by Morpheus. Very well told, slow-gts story about a girl who gets the enchanted room of her house, the one that ensures that the owner is the biggest, prettiest, and smartest — to the misfortune of her busty sister, athlete brother, and brainy dad.

“Personal Growth” by Rapscalion. Lots of self-induced growth by a character who memorably goes power-mad. (A favorite sequence of scenes is when she’s committed to a hospital where her growth can be studied, and carries on an affair with a male nurse who becomes “cute and little” as she shoots up.)

“Compounding Interest” by Hunter S. Creek. Long but worth it, slow-gts story (with some faster gts sex scenes) from the perspective a guy who dismisses a friend’s sister who has a crush on him. Then she starts growing.

“Make Yourself” by Thesonandheir. Probably too much filler in this one, and an abrupt ending, but most of it’s about a girl who finds a locket that lets her control her size, then the size of others.

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[Mr Burroughs]

I’m enjoying the hell out of these stories, with just one small exception. “Rise of the Guardian” was absolutely perfect, worth a subscription all by its lonesome. Right until the end. Without spoiling anything, I was disappointed by the amount of before/after growth time readers got out of that. I’d pay to see the artist fill that out with a few more pages, an appendix, what have you.

To anyone who hasn’t read the story: It is well worth it despite my grumble. Snappily illustrated and funny, it features not just great growth sequences but — IMHO more important — amazing scenes of the growing heroine enjoying her power. I’m not spoiling anything if I say you watch a skinny, action-ready character grow larger and larger, taking joy in how much easier it becomes to dispatch enemies, win drinking contests, and seduce (ever-smaller seeming) lovers.

[Mr Burroughs]

The movie is now on Netflix Instant, for your viewing pleasure. As the trailer implies, the growth is all self-induced, by a serum designed to fix one’s physical imperfections.

The bad news: Lame growth scenes. The titular nerd-turned-cheerleader grows four times, only two of them onscreen, and in those sequences the expansion is “acted,” not CGI’d. She writhes in pain; there are sounds of stretching and gross digestive noises. Her rival (Olivia Alexander, mentioned upthread) does grow out of her bra during one spurt, but that’s it.

The good news: Really stellar amazon/gts stuff, once the growing is done. The cheerleader’s second growth spurt bumps her up from 5’8” or so to probably 7′, and she deals with this in a cute, chipper way — she tells the inventor of the process that she’s “got to get a bigger uniform!” We then see her use her size to become the most popular girl on campus, smirking at the little hotties who come up to her navel, blocking the two rows of gawkers behind her in class, chugging a liter of Jack Daniels, enjoying the advances from gibbering guys who want to “climb the mountain.” And the climax gives us a clothes-ripping slap fight between the nice cheerleader and the mean girl (who’s taken a double dose of the serum to quickly match her rival’s size), big as all outdoors, tearing up a football field.

It’s fun stuff, but could have used some actual growth scenes, and more from from the period when she rules campus like (as one character says) “a She-Hulk.”

[Mr Burroughs]

Nothing tops the Alex Ross version of PG in “Kingdom Come.” With very few scenes and not much backstory, Ross beefs her up considerably, and keeps the very large rack.

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[Mr Burroughs]

The makers of the "Obama Girl" videos, and a number of less-viral "pretty girls who like presidential candidates!" videos, are up with an Incredible Hulk parody: "The Incredible McCain Girl."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dy6myWxg8

In case you're at work, the gist: Pretty, blonde "McCain Girl" is on the run from the Republican Party because she loves John McCain so much. Republicans strap her to a board and force her to watch Obama giving speeches, and she hulks out in a pretty great 10-second scene. She breathes heavily as her arms and chest inflate. Her shirt rips from the neck down and her breasts (in a bikini) bulge out of the fabric. She finally hulks out (her body replaced by a buffer body) and rips free, then attacks Obama girl, who's about half her size. The rest of the video's a montage of silly antics and shots of the hulked-out McCain girl, culminating in the start of a battle between her and a suddenly superpowered (not FMG'd) Obama girl.

I felt like a mark for even watching this, but I can't turn down popular FMG or giantess vids.

[Mr Burroughs]

When did Power Girl get the FMG treatment, or Wonder Woman? I haven't seen either.

It was almost two years ago now, but after Dan Slott had Jennifer Walters figure out that working out in her human form would bulk up her She-Hulk body, that was definitely the best result of an FMG.

The best unmentioned FMG, so far, was Ann O'Brien's in "Monkeyman and O'Brien." It occurs over the course of a few weeks, recapped in O'Brien's narration. First she's struggling to put on shoes that she keeps outgrowing, making her realize she's "growing faster than a teenager!" Then there's a montage of O'Brien swimming, lifting weights, running, adding more mass and height in each panel. At the end of the sequence she's 7 feet tall and massive, and smirking as she flexes her muscles. Totally perfect sequence.

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