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001 - What's the Worst that Could Happen!

El Cid

on April 27, 2015

The first page of our April sneak peek arrives. I'm sort of embarrassed that I've forgotten to do so up to this point, but I gotta take a minute to give extra special thanks to GMan003 over at Comic Fury for all his help with the science and technology aspects of this comic. He's been a life saver! Of course, I didn't consult him on *everything* in the comic, so if you see something that's obviously inaccurate, then odds are it's something I didn't bother to run by GMan first!
 
And, since this is a space comic about the outer solar system, I guess it's time for some…
 

 
Well okay, this is over a week old now, but better late than never! NASA's New Horizons space probe sent us back its first color photograph of Pluto and its co-planet Charon (I don't consider Charon a moon). So in case you haven't already had a chance to scope it out, here it is:
 

 
Your tax dollars at work, folks. Seriously though, it's still a few months before the probe makes its up-close flyby and we'll finally get high resolution imaging of the Pluto-Charon system. I know it's extremely geeky, but I'm actually super excited about that, especially since I'm doing a comic about the Kuiper Belt, and we've never really seen a Kuiper Belt object up-close-and-personal before. It'll be pretty cool to finally get some details to fill in those blurry Hubble images we've been going off of for so long.
 

Pluto
 

Charon
 
Okay, enough geeking out about space stuff. The next pages should go up on Wednesday and Friday, assuming I don't oversleep. See you then, and thanks for stopping by!