PYMYM: The Gnar-Maiden

Back in 2008 I drew a couple versions of a mutated Narwhal for no reason.  It was around the same time I had drawn this full-figured skateboarder for a skateboard company and sort of merged them together in my brain and created this bit of silly fiction. Mostly as an excuse to fuck around in photoshop at work. 

 Which brings us to this installment of "Posts You Might Have Missed" from April of 2008.  

The Tale of the Gnar-Maiden

There once was a beautiful skateboarder named Lisa, who loved to ride her skateboard. She also liked to swim in the Arctic seas. 

Lisa knew of a magical sea creature that liked to swim in these waters but was never too concerned as it was mostly just old stories told by the local people.  The North Alaskan Mutated Narwhal or "Gnarwhal" to the local Inuit tribes was said to be a docile creature known for it's giant tusk and tasty secretions. As the story goes the secretions were once harvested by the natives in the olden times and used for medicinal and ceremonial purposes.



One day while swimming in the frigid waters Lisa got caught in a freak storm that carried her out to sea. She nearly drowned when her body sank to the depths. Deep down with the Gnarwhal.

In this same storm, a military cargo ship carrying top secret government radioactive material took a phantom wave and cracked its hull spilling gallons of this experimental substance into the sea.

The substance made its way down to the depths with Lisa who was struggling to swim to the surface and –the Gnarwhal. As the glowing ooze made contact something miraculous and strange happened. Lisa suddenly was able to breath under water and a giant tusk started to grow and came out of her forehead! She then realized that her and one of the sea mammals of lore were starting to meld together and become one.

Once the transformation was complete she, in her new form made her way back to land.  Like the Gnarwhal, Lisa now secreted this rare and delicious jelly. A special gelatinous ooze now imbued with special energy increasing properties from the toxic spill.  

Leaving out a ton of really important stuff here but long-story-short, she went on to market and sell with the help of her marketing exec. brother, Joaquin and became a very successful business woman/mutant sea creature hybrid.  The End.