What are you supposed to say when you land on a new planet, anyway? This strip marks the end of the first year of The Adventures of the S-Team. Rest assured, I intend to keep trying to bring The Funny[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you went on road trips as a kid, did you ever ask if you could drive? I did. I didn’t get to either.
Everyone who has kids has heard these phrases before on a road trip. And, like in this strip, they often come at the end of a long, blessedly peaceful silence. An interesting point to consider is whether Slick is really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I blatantly took this joke from Shrek 2, in an exchange between Donkey and Shrek. I thought it was funny then, and I think it’s funny now.
I wanted to shoot some close-quarters sets, so I built the Shuttle you see here. It’s larger than just the cockpit – it also includes the left (“port” for you astronaut types) side, which will appear in a subsequent story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the funny bits about Star Trek was the way all the main officers seemed to be the ones heading down to the planets to get drunk and laid and such instead of the basic grunts, who really ought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone knows it’s more important to be dramatic and interesting than boring and efficient. And setting next week’s strip in a shuttlecraft gave me a chance to build a new set piece…
Captain Kirk was, of course, famous for being a ladies’ man in the number of alien ladies he shtupped. Apparently Captain Blak is cut from the same cloth.
Sometimes with Slick you can just see his gears grind to a halt. I try to make the interplay between Yelu and Wiet and Blak as interesting as what was between Spock and McCoy and Kirk on Star Trek. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a book called Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin. It’s a great book – I highly recommend it. At one point a character is put in the unenviable position of having to earn his way across the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…