Beach Blanket Beauties Part Two

[Dreamtales]

The long awaited sequel to Beach Blanket Beauties! When we last left Suzy and Marilyn, that nasty brat Mandy used a Youth Ray to reduced Suzy and Marilyn to innocent kids. Meanwhile Mandy used the same ray to grow herself into the sexiest babe on the beach.

Plot Summary: Little Suzy and Marilyn, shrunk to children, are under Mandy?s thumb. A desperate attempt to escape goes wrong. And then things start changing? and changing! Can Suzy and Marilyn escape the clutches of that nasty freckle-faced brat? And what punishment does Mandy deserve for being so mean?

Note: The first 5 pages recap the action from Beach Blanket Beauties. It includes new artwork of the age transformation scenes so you get to see them shrink and grow all over again.

Beach Blanket Beauties Part Two has 28 color pages and costs $8.99. You can get more info and buy the comic here:

Beach Blanket Beauties Part Two

[Captain Ash]

This sequel looks interesting.
Can't wait to have a look in it.
As soon as I've read it, I'm giving my opinion about it.

Captain Ash

[Nom Anor]

Nice; I didn't think this would be ready until next year.

[Nom Anor]

So, I just reread the original comic before thumbing through the sequel.

Part II has a tough act going for it given the first installment is still my favorite entry of both the Suzy & Frank line and your entire catalog. There’s the additional obstacle any sequel presents: Continue the story without repeating yourself.

So I was glad to breath a sigh of relief once it downloaded. Overall, I liked it. Part I is still my favorite and you can't beat it, but this is a strong follow-up as we pick up where we left off last time: The shrunken Suzy and Marilyn at the mercy of the now adult Mandy.

I appreciated how you listened to the reviews for the first comic and zeroed in on our dynamic duo trying to convince someone that they’re really shrunken adults. That was my favorite part of this comic -- aside from Mandy's cunning plan going downhill (literally).

The art is just as kickass as last time. Palcomix stepped up their game again and the higher price reflects the higher quality. The recap is appreciated as we get to see Suzy and Marilyn get downsized again as you point out. What I also like about the recap is that it distills the first comic into 5 pages without seeming like a compression or that anything's lost. It allows Part II to stand on its own without having to read Part I.

My only real quibble was the lack of a great Palcomix cover like last time, but c'est la vie.

And of course, you leave the door open for a third day at the beach...

[impaction1967]

Really great comic! Just wish one of them would've ended up in diapers!

[Janus Steel]

I purchased this yesterday and like all the dreamtales stuff the art is good. I love Palcomix better than Bojay's work (I have trouble telling Bojay faces apart). But I thought storywise this one wasn't as tight.

Without giving away spoilers to those who haven't read this I think that this could have been a much tighter story by just giving us a few pages extra detail. And maybe I'm saying that because I'm being hypercritical for my own stories and in context have turned it onto other stuff. Right now there are two plot holes that just kind of irk me. I know... fetish material and plot holes are kind of hand and in hand.

Now I wouldn't mind paying 12 dollars for a longer tighter story from you Dreamtales, I so far have bought just about all your work. But After going through some of the newer stuff, Highschool Confidential, Booby Battle and this one of the 3 new ones Booby Battle is my favorite because it is, while no words, more detailed in how things work and we're not left wondering how an AR gun can do more than AR/AP.

Just my Two Cents, ultimately I'll buy just about anything you produce but I thought I'd give you feedback.

[Klatuk4u]

I purchased it and liked it. I recommend buying it not just because of the content, but also to support great future projects from Dreamtales. I will start by saying the age regression/progression was detailed, and I liked it. The art is great, and the story is a typical(good)Suzy and Marilyn story. However there was some minor disappointment, and it related mostly to my personal tastes.






*A little bit of Spoilers*





It should be noted that the conclusion of the story is not an AR/AP TF, but rather a SW one. I have nothing against SW, but would have preferred to know that before making the purchase, as I would NOT have purchased it from anyone but Dreamtales if I had known. Those of you looking forward to seeing Mandy regressed or progressed as a punishment will be disappointed as I was. It is made a little worse because a character threaten to regress other characters into toddlers, and diapers, but it never happens. Like I said, I like SW, just not in a comic advertised as an AR/AP comic. Again this is just my opinion, so nobody needs to jump to defend SW, or Dreamtales because I am not attacking either. This is worth purchasing, and I hope others will give it a shot.

[gladewalker]

I'm having issues at your store. I click on "paypal" from the store and it fails to load further. Is that a common problem?

[OhZone]

This looks to be very good.

BTW:I love most process so AR, AP, SW mix is kewl with me. In fact, we need more combos.

A double curse story might be interesting where some bitchy tall woman gets cut down to size if she does something nasty, alternately size and age, maybe ending up a 2 inch tall yout.

Damn I should learn to write.

[gladewalker]

Alright got it to work.
I switched browsers.
Worked in IE, not in Chrome or Firefox.
Odd...

Nice work, DT!

[Nom Anor]

Originally Posted by Janus Steel

...we're not left wondering how an AR gun can do more than AR/AP.

*** SPOILERS ***







I just assumed Suzy's spent enough time around Frank to pick up a few things about rewiring transformation technology. That or it had something to do with a tachyon emitter.

[Captain Ash]

Those who regressed have to turn back to normal and vice versa.
That?s what the reader exactly expects from happening in this sequel.
The only question is: HOW?

Let?s start with the drawings.
Palcomix did a wonderful job on the drawings.
I dare to say that they have even improved by using the shadowing on the characters.
This increases not only the quality but also let the characters appear more lively and dynamic.
What I also really appreciate are the details they put into the feet and legs.

The only thing I have to criticize is the kind of laziness by forgetting to draw the faces at page 7.
It is only at one panel but still a very obvious one.
Maybe one minor thing is that Frank looks somehow different than we know him from the previous comics. And since when does he has black hair?

Besides that, the drawing and characters are fantastic!
Also the perspectives of the character are great and fit to the situation.
This makes the comic not getting boring for a singly moment.

To the story:
Little Marilyn and Suzy are the mercy of adult Mandy.
Forced to obey Mandy meekly, they try to become adults again.
I liked the idea by asking an adult to solve their problem. I only wished this great idea had been build more out in detail instead of being told that swiftly.

Probably I shouldn?t complain too much of the logic, since AR/AP are not possible and alone this fact makes none sense at all to change a persons age.
However, few things are weird to me.
At Suzy?s first growth burst, it seems that she became instantly an adult again, just to see her some pages later as a teenager.
Explaining it with a yo-yo effect would have been nice, pending between these two ages until she becomes adult again.

If they could easily go back the way home by foot, why didn?t they do that in the fist place?
Mandy was too busy with the boys anyway.
They could simply run and try finding a way to become adults again.
And why didn?t Marilyn get a growth spurt? She got the same dose as Suzy.
Why does the AR-raygun also works to shrink people?
Well, the shrinking part was unnecessary and on some panels, I was not sure if Mandy is a pre-teen or an adult again.
It would have been fun letting her in her adult self, but nonetheless, I?ve enjoyed it.
Like said before, I shouldn?t put too much sense into the logic.

Summary:
Beach Blanket 2 is a great comic with some fresh ideas. It has lots of nice process and the character interactions are fun to read.
Some might complain that the story lacked of a few more sites, but I think it is just okay. A few more pages wouldn?t make much difference.

Captain Ash