Comments on: 06/16/10 Yuri Speaks (18 Comments)

By: Danna

Danna — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:03:12 +0000

Pierrot’s “Negotiation Skill Level” stats might be low, but Yuri’s just went through the bedrock!

By: Night-Gaunt

Night-Gaunt — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:22:43 +0000

It is a hard decision between just wacky alien designs and functional ones. I go for functional ones.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:02:47 +0000

Ack! She said the “L” word! Nooooo! Not the “L” word! *wilts*
Love the background reactions! (well, the two we get to see) and Yuri’s expressions

Also, I’m wondering what Darkhuenium is used for, it sounds like a dye. (Wait, so if they extract the Darkhuenium from Uranus, would it turn yellow?)

Lastly, love the Aliens you keep coming up with. If it weren’t because it would mean certain death, I’d like to walk up to the one directly behind Yuri and say “Hey man, what’s with the long face?”

And a PS: I think you miscolored the columns holding up the podium in panel 6; they’re yellow from all other angles (or maybe this is the effect darkhuenium causes?) Not that I mind. The convention hall looks awesome! How long did it take you to draw all that?

(I know, way, way too late late with this comment. Sorry.)

By: Rags

Rags — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:54:01 +0000

Maybe the less humanoid species are in other rooms* with different chairs. Notice that the chairs we see close up are all traditional Earth style.

*With modern telecommunication you don’t really need to have your whole audience in one room. As it is here, most of the audience can only see the speakers on the big screen and hear them over the PA anyway. But then of course this subplot wouldn’t work if all the reps stayed in their offices networking.

By: Herandar

Herandar — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:05:07 +0000

A bit of a complaint here… Why are all the alien species roughly human-sized and shaped? This is what bugged me about Star Trek, but given that it was a television show with human actors, it could be overlooked. The only limit here is your skill and imagination. I would expect to see some megafauna-sized aliens in the crowd scene, where two or three representatives occupy an entire row. I loved the upside-down head guy in the first crowd scene, now it’s time for a background character where the heads are between the legs. Also, though I know it’s been mentioned before– hoofs + opposable thumbs = awesome.

By: Brian Dunbar

Brian Dunbar — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:45:48 +0000

@Brian Dunbar, sorry, i should have specified. If it was on cd or casette,

I’d try your library. It was published way back in 1993 so the audio is likely available on cassette or cd.

It’s a grand book in the space opera tradition, but I don’t think it’s worth $45, or spending a trial membership on.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:02:52 +0000

@Brian Dunbar, sorry, i should have specified. If it was on cd or casette, i could have inter-library loaned it. But as an audible.com book I’d have to do it directly through them. For $45 no less.Hm. I suppose I could do my “one free for beginning 30-day trial membership.” Hmmmm….

By: Brian Dunbar

Brian Dunbar — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:52:28 +0000

@Brian Dunbar, gharrrrr! It’s not on audibook.

Fire on the Deep?

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/entry/offers/partnerPromotions.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_AREN_001048

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:21:15 +0000

@Tom Dell’Aringa, thanks! Yeah, that panel took a bit, but was soooooo worth it.

@daniel wolff, hahahahhah! :)

@Brian Dunbar, gharrrrr! It’s not on audibook. Oh, fiddlesticks. And on ringworld: damn those herbavores!

@Christine (spiral bound), thanks for the lovely mention! And they will when “they KNOW someone is lying to them.” Goodness, they wouldn’t be able to leave the greenhouse if they wilted for every lie told.

speculators? hahahahahahh. :)

By: MKillustration

MKillustration — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:14:30 +0000

OK. Now the truth is out there. But that’s fine. It is always better to tell the truth… or is it? What will happen next?