And there it is! Not only did Zoie save Spocks ears, but she also provided the true salvation of the Star Trek franchise.
Classic Zortic
The first four panels are a careful recreation of the original Melonpool strip where Mayberry caused the ruin of Star Trek. While in reality Spock chose to keep the ears (stay tuned to find out why), Spock did ease off[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s important to note that when this crossover ran, the Melonpool archives had been taken off of the internet. So Ralphie’s warning did have an ominous reality behind it.
I have to confess that it was almost as much fun for me to draw Zortic in a Star Trek uniform as it was for him to wear one.
This was a tricky sequence to make work with only a few panels. I’m not sure if it worked exactly as I wanted it to, but it seems to get the point across.
One of the big advantages to doing this kind of crossover is the ability to look at your own characters from the outside. In a normal crossover Steve would have done this strip, but doing it myself made it extra[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This crossover was extra fun because I really got to immerse Zortic and the gang into the Melonpool universe. How often does that get to happen.
With Zortic and Melonpool together, you know there have to be some Star Trek references. In this case it’s from Star Trek IV; The Voyage Home