Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, November 4, 2019.
Just so you know… these aliens are not going to be main characters who we’ll see a lot (although I permit myself to deviate on plans later on). Their existence and actions will remain as an important part of the story, but the heroes will be Emily and the crew she travels with. I’m writing this because I understand this is a VERY long intro lead-up, and so I just didn’t want you to think it was all going to be callous house-crushing.
Mind you: I LOVE a very long intro lead-up. But in webcomic 4-strip-per-week form, the pace I imagine can get maddening.
Not main characters? So they are instigators of whatever the plot is?
Interpol is going to try to figure out who is crushing random houses?
Dude! You sold 7 house crushings in your Kickstarter. OF COURSE it’s got to go on a while. If previous Spacetrawlers are anything to go by, you could crush a dozen more and still have years of story to tell.
You’d think news of houses being crushed would get around. What do these aliens expect in the way of tourist perks if they land in relatively uncrowded places at night? They need to go where the action is! No chance of these guys coming down on Trump Towers, is there? If not, we at least need a large condominium or two crushed.
How do we go about getting the Trump Organization to — even unwittingly — contribute to the Kickstarter? How much of a contribution would it take to have the pups dent one of the golf courses? Smush Trump Tower in New York? Mangle Mar-a-Lago?
I bet we could all contribute to that, next Kickstarter!
Hee! 🙂
A very long intro lead-up means a much bigger story following it. I don’t see that as a bad thing.
Gives a whole new meaning to “crash pad”, don’t they? Still very creepy-looking cusses though.
How . . . how many people have the alien puppies killed so far?
Hey, there have been storylines killing entire planets. We try not to think about the Spacetrawler body counts.
No worries. I am enjoying the ride, and the occasional house stomping by cute puppy aliens just made my Monday much more tolerable.
We love your comics. Keep creating them and we’ll keep eating them
Here I was wondering what demographic Emily and Ruddock would fill for the house crushing aliens…
The pacing is fine. To me, it’s like a novel that’s starting out a bunch of different threads and we get to follow along as those threads slowly intertwine.
These characters look like something out of ‘One Way’, at least drawing-wise, to me. Interesting to have them juxtaposed with the look of ‘Space Trawler’. You are such a talented guy, Chris, that you can manage so many different styles.
Howard Taylor’s space comic Schlock Mercenary has a race of aggressive aliens that looks like sapient koalas. They are commonly nicknamed “psycho bears”. (Ignore the fact that koalas aren’t actually bears.)
I hereby label these guys, “psycho pups”.
But in webcomic 4-strip-per-week form, the pace I imagine can get maddening.
Well, you COULD do 5 strips a week. Just sayin..
I suppose Chris could…but I would miss the diary comic
Haahahaha! 5 per week. Don’t think I haven’t thought of it. But something would have to give, and right now that “something” would be my sanity. 🙂
Oh, I don’t mind a long buildup at all. It gives us more time to seethe about the Puppies and their heedless housecrushing, thereby giving us a reason to stick with the story and see their eventual, inevitable comeuppance. When it happens, oh! the cheering!
Besides, I’m curious to see how they get together with Emily, and what their mission might have to do with that. At present there’s grounds for all sorts of speculation, but no firm concept of what they’re about, where they expect the work to lead them, and not a whisper of their origin nor their superiors and of course only the most maddening hints of their idea of the scientific process, which, if I may say so this short way in, sucks. But let’s see how they go. Smiling and clenching my teeth and imagining an even bigger spaceship coming down and crushing BOTH their ships at once. Ah. That was a satisfying vision.
Well done, Pete. You have me searching for the link between soft-eyed puppies and coyote farts. So far, it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
But the beans are delicious.
I, for one, welcome our callous house-crushing overlords…