Russ Meyer was a film director who did low-budget sexploitation films. He often used actresses who were pregnant because it gave them bigger breasts. Cinemax After Dark is the programming block on the movie channel where they show bad (sometimes really bad) softcore porn movies.
Wait…did they just call me a pervert?! Ah well; guilty as charged, no doubt.
I examined lots of different methods to create Sandstorm’s pregnancy boobs and gave a lot of credence to the control-lever-plus-rubber-band method which I used during the Mammalizer fiasco. Ultimately, I decided to go a different direction, and I used superglue. And “let’s go eat” is heard frequently from pregnant women (at least it was from my wife and the mother of my three kids!).
Scarlet Swordsmistress explains it all for us here.
For anyone who hasn’t been involved with a pregnant woman, one of the earliest visible signs of the pregnancy is a sudden – and occasionally dramatic – embiggening of the boobs. The running joke in my family is “getting visited by the Titty Fairy” – kind of an adult version of the Tooth Fairy. I thought Titty Fairy was a little outside the “family-friendly” guidelines I set for myself with this strip, so I, uh, softened it to Boobie Fairy.