Couple of new panels for Galactopera 3
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Sequential Stories, Scribbles & Sounds
In Galactopera, I wanted to take some things away that we take for granted in science fantasy and see what that did for the story. I made space travel a huge obstacle to overcome and I took away pervasive robots, or automata, and made them an endangered, delicate thing. Once I did those two things the story fell in place in my head, although I recently realized I need to set aside some pages to deal with the special situations in the galaxy, otherwise throwing a magic stone and walking through a portal is just a magic device rather than an integral and special part of the world. Enter a few comic pages I will be doing to touch on the topics that underpin my Galactopera story.
Dragoon Patrol. Welcome to a new strip exploring the bottom rung of the hegemonic ladder in Galactopera with Vladrion and Estriel, a Space Elf vaudeville-style double act that hopefully progresses to a better understanding of their part in the management of power in the galaxy. If you find a Double Act, whatever the genre, it’s going to explore the distribution of power.
They always end up navigating the dungeons of power and succumbing or (rarely) escaping. It’s what they do! So I made a dungeon and threw two characters into it. Voila! Dragoon Patrol.
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Otto has been making appearances in my sketchbooks for a long time. Maybe twenty years, maybe more. I have always loved the industrial speakers that you used to get to hang on your car window when you went to a drive-in theater. Many of the drive-ins around Seattle like Puget Park, the Thunderbird or, my favorite, the Samish Twin in Bellingham had these speakers that looked like they could be a robot. Because in my mind I always wanted Otto to be a librarian even before I had a job for him, I used to try and give him an owl-like appearance, although I love the speaker grill face the best of all.
It’s nice to see Otto pop up in the panels of Galactopera at last. I think his journey is going to be fun.