1/22/2024 Are we rolling out with the cat jokes a bit too early? I dunno. At any rate, I still need to establish the crew and facilities of the Demeter, so introducing a character new to the ship is one of the easiest ways to do that. We also get a glimpse of Ripley’s cat […]
11/29/2024 This is gag is recycled from Reading Days, but I think it works better in this setting, enough to justify bringing it back here.
12/27/2023 Welcome to Lightyears, a light-hearted situational comedy comic-strip about Captain Ripley Lightyears and her crew as the endure the tedious and boring duty of charting the frontier of the cosmos. Fans of StudioSR3 projects may see some familiar faces in the episodes ahead.
My original idea for this announcement was to create a traditional illustration for friends and family to decode via symbols and metaphors. My wife encouraged me to do a comic, which I think was the better call. Her initial pitch was to feature Doctor Science Cat, a popular character from Reading Days which was a
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So this project took a while. At first I wanted to make a single illustration or painting, likewise with layered metaphors for friends and family to ponder the meaning of, but my wife encouraged me to do this. I’m glad she did, because it is more… us. Anyway, I warned her that it would take
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9 minutes? That’s an awfully short time to bake something… WHAT COULD IT MEAN!?
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This is the centerpiece scene, so to speak, with “little peanut” being our preferred metaphor. Have you guessed what I’m getting at yet!?
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So the idea here is that I’m layering as many metaphors for the thing I want to announce as I can. Some of the dialogue here is a last minute addition. I was pitching Partner’s dialogue to my wife as a joke and found it too funny not to include.
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I have something very important to announce the only way I know.
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