UPDATE:
Sorry about this, folks– no Friday update. It’s a bit of a surprise to me, too, but I’ve been nasty sick for this entire week. I thought the household was all done being sick after the parade of illnesses we had after Christmas, but it turns out I was wrong. If I hadn’t just taken two weeks off my buffer would have absorbed even this lengthy delay, but on top of the Christmas break I can’t manage it. I suppose I could shrug and just say, “Well, not posting anything on the January First Friday was my original plan anyway,” but I did say I would and I feel a little bad about that. On the other hand, coughing my lungs out does seem to take away a lot of the guilt. The good news is– knock wood– I think I’m over the worst of it now, so I should be able to resume my normal schedule next week.
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Happy 2011 to everyone! We’re back at last. I don’t know about you guys, but to me that break felt like an eternity. (But that’s probably because the household was sick for a week so I didn’t get as much chance to get out and enjoy it as I’d hoped. Oh well.) If the long delay between pages got to you and you have no idea what’s going on, may I direct you to the beginning of this chapter.
Here’s a bit of trivia for you: this is actually the second time we’ve seen this lounge area. The first time was in that bonus-content page in the back of Galaxion Book 1: The Jump. And did you know, that same bonus page also has Mal in it? Not that I’m shamelessly plugging the book or anything. OK, maybe I am. Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about a January Store Special? For the month of January, with any order of Galaxion Book 1: The Jump I will throw in a free pack of Galaxion sticky-notes (which you can see in this picture. The blurry words say, “CAPTAIN’S ORDERS: 1. Get more chocolate chips. 2.”, with the comic’s URL underneath). After all, you can never have enough sticky-notes.
Don’t forget to come back on Friday for the First-Friday-of-the-Month update!
And you can never have enough chocolate chips.
You changed your mind? There will be a Friday update?? YAY!
Been a loooonnnng time since we’ve seen Darvin. Did he just make his computer shrink?
Oh…. yeah. I blame the fact that I’m still feverish that I completely forgot I’d said I’d skip the First Friday update this month. Rats. I could really use the extra time, too. I guess I can’t take it back now, since I already promised…
Hmm. Tempting. I’ve been meaning on getting book 1 for awhile now…
I’m afraid there’s a mistake on the 2nd panel: the edge of the computer screen doesn’t match with the edge of the keyboard where it does in all the reverse shots. Also where did the screen to his right disappear to in the last panel?
I must confess the idea of a laptop in this time period, while admittedly cool with the shrinking screen and all, still feels a touch “old school” (aka not future). I would have thought a cigarette pack sized box sitting on the table projecting an interactive 3D image above would have been more appropriate (sub-vocal mike for data entry).
*sigh* You put out wonderful stories and art and your readers are still not satisfied.
You’re right, they don’t line up as well as they ought.
The screens, both of them, are supposed to be projections (which is a bit of a callback to something Fusella used a long time ago). What I don’t show– it happens between panels– is Darvin similarly shrinking down the second screen. What he’s folding in half is more or less just the keyboard.
An interactive 3-D image (the workstation Tony Stark used in Iron Man springs to mind) would be pretty spiff, though, wouldn’t it?
LOL, and I was just reading AMoP last night for fun… it all makes sense now!
Thanks for all the links: they really helped a lot (I had forgotten about Fusella’s screen).
The “special effect” for Fusella’s screen worked quite well. It was in mid-air and looked like a projection rather than something solid. Speaking of which, if the screens are projections, then why does he have to shrink them? Just turn the projection off.
Yes! Tony Stark’s workstation is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of. Yeah, that would be very cool.
If they have mice on that ship then trying to track the cat back to a food-source won’t work.
Try a paper bag. No cat could ever resist a paper bag!
Nononono. Can-opener. Or discover that someone is allergic to cats. Or lay a freshly-cleaned clothing item of a color that the cat’s fur completely clashes with on a bed. Sure-fire cat-lures.
Also, you can open a refrigerator door. My landlord’s cat can hear that a block away. (Or so it seems at times…)
One would think a starship CAPTAIN would have better things to do than look for someone’s cat. Then again, when an android possesses a cat he gets his engineering best friend with the funky glasses to get said cat from under a bed the android NEVER requires.
If you want it to be just like Stark’s display, you could “semi-draw” the background through it, giving the illusion of transparency. As it stands, it looks very solid in the picture. Or you could make it look like he’s adjusting his keyboard to a more comfortable position.
Actually, I prefer the solid version. Wouldn’t a projection that looks solid suggest an even more advanced state of technology? Plus, that way, whatever he is working on can’t be seen by the people sitting around him.
Hope you feel better. Being sick is no fun.
Poor Tara!
Get well soon!!
This is what I call going to great lengths to avoid the extra Friday update !
We can wait until next month for that. Relax and concentrate on your good health. Are you getting enough chicken soup?
In the meantime, please pay no attention to those nice people in yellow suits putting up the quarantine barriers outside your house.