Touché?
If I haven’t mentioned it before, Book 2 is currently at the printer. This is, consequently, a very anxious time for me, as all I can do is wait to see if a) the books will arrive on time for TCAF, and b) if we screwed anything up. I will be sure to let you all know as soon as they are available for ordering!
And I suppose I should start plugging this, actually: I will be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, more commonly known as TCAF, May 7th and 8th! This is one of my favourite shows not just because it’s local to me, but because it’s very easy to get to at the Toronto Reference Library, it’s jam-packed with great comic creators selling their wares, and best of all it’s free to attend. How awesome is that? I hope to see you there!
In their birthday suit ?
Was it their birthday ?
“I enjoy myself just fine, thankyouverymuch.”
Doing… what? Wearing out the deck plates on the bridge? Playing matchmaker? Herding cats?
“Herding cats?”
Isn’t that pretty much the job description of the commander of *any* vessel?
Hee hee hee!
I think it’s pretty telling that Darvin refers to Fusella as “mama captain” here. She does seem a lot older, even though they’re the same age (right?).
Yes, Darvin and Fusella are the same age, and were in the same year at TerSA Academy (see Spring Break). She’s actually a couple months older than he is.
I had never even heard of the “Spring Break” story! My first thought was “oh my god, a Galaxion story that ends! ”
Good job on the mini one, Tara! Very well paced and exciting
– Kev
Safer topics would include the away team, the garden-implement people, or Galaxion’s clonky drive-engine(s)!
I had no idea that cats were so dangerous to be around…
There have been a number of comments on this line of “How can Fusella be dealing with lost cats and talking about innocuous subjects in the middle of these emergencies?” Let me take a contrarian view.
Fusella is the leader. She’s not going to be solving the problems of the away team, the drive engines or the lost home. That’s what the crew/scientists will be doing. Her job is to bring the right people together, let them know what needs to be done, give them the resources to do it and clear obstacles from their path. Frankly, once she’s done that, one of those obstacles is likely to be her. It’s just possible that the teams that she’s got working might not do their best work with a nervous captain hanging around looking anxiously over their shoulders, asking every five minutes how it’s going.
At this point, taking herself out of the picture is probably the best thing she can do for everyone. And since it is all out of her hands now, talking about other innocuous subjects or dealing with smaller problems that are brought to her is probably the best thing she can do to try and take her mind off it all. Then, when it does all come back to land on her, she’ll be in a better position to give it fresh attention.
Or so it seems to me.
Only that’s not what a CAPTAIN does. A captain is here to keep things from going off on tangents, to keep people on task, to MONITOR the different teams as they work, to ASK for FREQUENT reports and to keep making important decisons.
The cook can take care of the cat. Captain’s needed on the bridge, in touch with everything on her ship in such a crisis.