And here you see Reason Number One why spacers don't all go for those uber-indestructable endoskeletons: You may find yourself in a situation where you need to part with a limb in order to save the rest of you! Nothing worse than being pinned down by a chunk of twisted fuselage, watching your friends evacuate in an escape pod as your spaceship hurtles down on a collision course with some nameless asteroid.
So, will the Captain manage to retake the ship before it can burn a hole through the colony? We'll find out soon enough!
Also, don't forget to check out the Drunk Duck Awards, which are still going strong. My embarrassing Best Character Design presentation is mercifully over and done with (sorry, just couldn't think of anything interesting to do with that one!), but there's still plenty good stuff to come!
AUTHOR'S NOTES
In case it's not clear, she's using her pants to lasso the buzzsaw thingee in those first panels. The pattern should be recognizable!
Okay, so you're doing a space comic where your band of spacefaring misfits visits the floating cloud casinos of Venus. So, as their spaceship approaches Venus… what does it look like?
“Well duh, Cid,” you say to me, even though I'm not there, “there's bunches of pictures of Venus out there! We all know what Venus looks like!”
And you're probably envisioning something like this:
However, that's not what Venus really looks like. Those images use wavelengths the human eye can't see to bring out cloud features which are invisible to the naked eye, and then they jack up the contrast to make it even more visible. Even Wikipedia, with its supposedly true color title image of Venus, is actually using a Photoshopped mosaic which includes ultraviolet imagery to bring out the cloud formations. Here's an un-messed-with true color photo of Venus from the Messenger probe. This is what Venus would really look like if you were flying past it in space:
That's not really accurate either though, because Venus is much brighter than it looks in that image (you can see it on Earth during daylight). It would actually hurt your eyes to look directly at it without some kind of protective eyewear.
Also, while we're at it, what color is the surface of Venus? We've all seen those nifty ground level images taken by the Venera probe right before it sizzled and melted away… but everything's tinted orange due to the thick Venusian atmosphere's light filtering effects. But if you hauled up a handful of that soil, what color would it be? Is the planet covered in yellow sulfury stuff? Well, here's a color-corrected image of the Venusian surface, minus the atmospheric effects:
Of course, neither photo is really what you'd see, because you'd be all screaming and melting and dying, and no one has a Photoshop filter that quite captures that.
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