In hind sight, I’m not sure the Zoie constellation really came out the way I wanted it to. But I think this is the first use of the phrase “shut up, Splink”.
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The glue trick was a casual nod to Elwood’s trick in the Blues Brothers where he glued the Good Ol’ Boys gas pedal on the Winnebago.
Chubby’s ship was just supposed to look kind of lumpy, but in hind sight, it is slightly obscene. Fortunately that also works for a Chubby the Lump ship.
It’s kind of funny to go back and see the original layout of the ship. While I thought I had it pretty well laid out, it wasn’t until we worked out the new CGI ship that we really were able[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another stand alone gag. The dullness of slower than light speed travel was going to be a running gag, but focusing on boringness seemed pretty boring, so I’m glad that didn’t last long.
I had originally tried to sell Zortic as a traditional newspaper strip filled with daily gags. I quickly found that it worked better as more of an adventure strip. This is an example of one of those daily gag strips,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…