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It's that time again-- My favourite pieces of 2025! Lots to choose from this year as getting my laptop and my youngest child starting school has allowed me more flexibility and time to work. It's been a good year for me, but as ever I want next year to be bigger and better than ever before!

My goals for 2026 are:

To finish or bring near to completion Red Alert (if I keep to my current yearly ratio of pages, that's tough but achievable) .

To (finally!) finish Cavegirl issue 1 and proceed onto doing more of issue 2 (there's about 7 pages left to go in issue 1 so I anticipate that it will be finished in the first half of the new year)

To Complete AltaWoman: The Ultimate Trap and thus proceed onto Altawoman Anthology 2

Bazuumba Origin (really want to draw more of this character!)

Finish up 'The Taming of the Savages'.

I expect I'll probably achieve one of those things....ish..., given my track record. And I'll probably have started three more new projects along the way! Ah well.

Thank you all once again for your continued support-- if you've subscribed and enjoyed anything on my site this year, your contribution has helped to make that happen. Happy new year to you all and see you in 2026!

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XionZeros

I haven't commented on much this year, but just like the past 20+ years of following your work, it's been an absolute honor and continued inspiration. For me personally, your ongoing alternate universe take on Altawoman/Lauress and the Enrage TFs were my favorites of this year that I kept looking back at constantly while I'm always happy to see more Savage Girl and Cavegirl stuff from you. Whatever is to come for 2026 and beyond from you with Shulkie, Manicverse, and other FMG goodness, you can always Make Mine Manic! Keep up the great work.

Agent00Soul

Thanks for a great year. Cavewoman was my favourite because Diane is such a great alter-ego and she has the sexiest transformations from both a physical and psychological perspective. If you’re planning to return to Bazumba, can I request another story with Golden Age Bazoomba back in WW2 also please? She also had a very visceral transformation from a Bettie Page lookalike to jungle queen.

Boom

A solid year. One of my favorites you didn’t put here was that Bruce and Betty TF from January. I admired the original twist of it being He Man and She Ra from a creative perspective, but was disappointed there was no Hulk out… and then the next week you made a variant where they do Hulk out! That was pretty awesome in my book. In any event, I look forward to 2026’s projects. It sounds like you have some good ones ahead, and hopefully some other projects that haven’t been worked on in a while get some attention.

Manic

Ahh, yes that was a good one! I knew there was something I missed.

Bimbobub

I think my favorite was definitely taming the savages. Always love whenever you do Savage girl art and doing the hottest tfs I've seen with her was definitely a plus too. My second favorite was probably the Betty Ross and Bruce Banner tfs into He-man and She-ra/Hulk and She-hulk because the first one was a neat twist and the other was an amazing double hulk out. Can't wait to see what you cook up for 2026 and I hope you have a Happy New Year

Brian Dutton

Thank you for a great year, Manic. It’s been quite a ride watching your technique and story telling abilities grow over the years. I’m excited to see what the new year will bring.

Manic

A couple of people have mentioned that one-- glad it made such an impression!

Bimbobub

Yeah I know people love that one mostly because it stands out really well.

FourinOne

Love Voltron page

Agent00Soul

You’ve been at this more than 20 years, right? I seem to remember you posting right after 9-11 where you kept hoping The Avengers or Fantastic Four would show up and stop the tragedy.

Manic

Oh yeah, I've been doing this stuff all my life! I started posting drawings on Unzipped's Homage to the Savage She-Hulk site in 2000, and then Shadowlurker built a site that was basically for mine and a few others artwork. That's when I started to create my own characters. I was basically fired from an office job in 2006 and I decided to make a living from commissions while I figured out what to do next. Been doing that ever since!

Agent00Soul

That fits in more with what I remember. I still have one of those commissions from back before they were digital and you sent them on heavy paper. But yeah, 25 years - a quarter century, wow!

Confidente100

A solid year, indeed! The Enrage pages were the highlight for me, and I hope to see more of the character in the future.

She-Hulk Fan

That is how I first saw the Manic's work, on the old Shadowlurker site in 2002 I think after I finished my first year at university. I saw the manga style of SHFan on there first, then Manic's and Eegore's I think. Not sure if there was some stuff by Tom Burgess as well.

She-Hulk Fan

Good luck on the goals Manic, I'm hoping to see more Gamma Effect pages as well.

Manic

More Enrage is on the way! I've been working on the next page of "Ultimate Trap".

Manic

There will be a new page of Gamma Effect very soon!

Manic

Tom Burgos's work was top notch! He did a fantastic cover illustration for my She-Hulk comic "Dancing with the Damned"

Adam

Manic you never fail to deliver. Really enjoyed both the DIane/Cavewoman and Altawoman ultimate trap stories. Looking foward to what comes in 2026!

Andi

Hope to see more Rebirth content soon! Also, any chance short haired Jen could make a comeback?