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This is, I think, the first time I’ve used dotted speech balloons to denote whispering. I also make use of the smaller font here (for words spoken sotto voce), which I’ve done before. Yelu seems to have a very good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain Kirk never said “get your freak on with me” on the original Star Trek, but he might as well have, given his reputation.
The “synchronized dancing” in the third panel is something that Berkeley Breathed used occasionally in his brilliantly funny epic Bloom County. I’ve been waiting for a good chance to use it here. And everyone knows, or should know, that hot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And the love-fest continues between Slick and Yelu. What these guys really need is some kind of uniting factor – something they have in common…
I don’t know exactly how it is that Slick and Yelu have turned out to hate each other so much. It just seems to have happened – the characters do have minds of their own.
In history wayback, this was called being impressed into service. Will Slick survive his new position? Only time will tell…
You can see a little more of the side of the shuttlecraft here. I only built the cockpit and left side for the purposes of this strip. And we have more funnies about redshirts.
There are a lot of things going on in this strip. First of all, notice the background? In the first Star Trek series, everything on alien worlds was shot in the studio with a matte backdrop that was painfully obvious.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been planning this one for a long time. I’ve always thought that hitting a random character with a meteorite is great for laughs. And naturally, it’s the red shirt. “Crap in a hat” is apparently also in widespread use[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…