In case you’d forgotten, the fourth member of the mission already caught a bad case of meteoritis. It turned out to be fatal. But he was wearing a red shirt, so it was to be expected. Yelu seems to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The small size of LEGO minifigs precludes complex designs for alien life forms. Otherwise they quickly get too large and unwieldy. This particular alien is a VERY simple design – two pieces: legs and a sloped piece. The more discriminating[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine how a science fiction fan would feel in this situation. Totally geeked out, I’m sure.
I was going to call them Roddenberries, but I thought that would just be too predictable.
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…