Remember Yuri’s remote control. (Also here)

Well, I was planning on making Yuri blue, mixing Flineous (she she recently killed) and Kali the Hindu goddess of power. I was even going to post a venn diagram of Kali, Flineous, and a housecat with Yuri being where they all overlap. BUT, I couldn’t make it work without her looking like Neytiri the blue Pandorian from the movie “Avatar” (or Zhaan from “Farscape” if you’d rather). After much fussing and fidgeting and playing with various hues I decided on her new color scheme. Not what I had planned, but I am very pleased with it nonetheless.

Oh, and Dustin is back. You’d be amazed how many times I count the humans in each strip as I draw them (I know there’s SIX! SIX humas!) and then make sure I know where each character is. So easy to forget.

Let’s see… a few links. Tom Walker posted a new SS Myra, of course. And I received the amazing collection of Dicebox in the mail this week (with my own short comic of the charcaters in it), and am champing the bit to read it. Erika Moen and Jeff Parker finished their 102 page webcomic “Bucko” which is a very fun read (and they’re having a store sale to celebrate).

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Thank you all who meandered over to my store at TopatoCo. I appreciate the support from you all, the readers of Spacetrawler. Truly, thank you.

All is well here. Started writing a novella this week. That was unexpected. But mostly I’m just trying to keep up on all my projects and exceed my own writing and drawing expectations for them, as well as provide emotional support for my sweetie who’s a few weeks from finishing Grad school. Overall, my head has been a bit fuzzy between the ears when I look up from my desk. A bit punchy.

In case any of you had difficulty imaging Chuck Norris threatening you by saying, “butter pats,” here you go.

Lastly, I thought I’d talk about the whole death thing briefly.

First off, for anyone wondering: Flineous is dead. Just like Growp is dead, and Dal. This is no Baloo the bear situation. If I go down some road later which brings characters back to life in some sci-fi way, that’s something else entirely. But he’s dead. If you need a moral: torturing people is not cool, and you may face retribution.

Why kill characters? It seems somewhat taboo to do so, possibly because of our culture demanding writers to leave avenues open for writing sequels. But I wrote it this way because it was how I thought the story should be written. It’s a complex story, and I feel these deaths both define the world they are in as well as who they are as people. And also, know that I don’t take any of these deaths lightly, even if it seems frivolous. When it gets made into an awesome SciFi channel series, they can have the characters live in that version as long as they want.

Now, more importantly, it’s time for a cup of hot chocolate.

Oh, and Tom Walker tells me to remind you a new SS Myra is up and it’s DEFINITELY Not Safe For Work (NSFW). But here’s the link.

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In the vein of Black Friday and Small-Business Saturday, today is “Cyber Monday.” Did you know?

Well, for any gifts you need, why not do it here and support one of your favorite strips at the same time?!

Spacetrawler book#1 would be great for anyone who ever liked star-trek, star wars, or British Humor, or something. The Little Dee books (what few are left) are all-ages, and perfect for kids or those with more gentle ears. And the Bruno books (what few are left) would be apropos for any teen-to-twenty-something depressed overthinking people you have in your life.

For the rest, T-shirts and mugs.

SPACETRAWLER ONLINE STORE.

best, -Christopher

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Whatta week. Work work work. Started developing three new projects (with a list of others in the sidelines). Think I might take this week to really lay out the entire rest of the story for Spacetrawler, as it seems to have gelled finally pretty well in my head.

I always did another walk for an Farm Sanctuary, got down to Olympia and had some good talks with my friend Dan and Keylee. Designed some posters for Occupy Seattle Animal Rights & Environmentalism Work Group. Good times.

Thanks to Peggy for the very sweet shout-out over at Decrypting Rita.

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Hey, I’m going to be interviewed on the Moonhawk Studios podcast Wednesday around 7:45 pm PST (it’s listed as 7:00, but ignore that). You can listen and sign in and ask questions in the chat room. I give my characters (and thus: you) no mercy, and now’s your chance to give ME none.

There’s another old MAD job I did on their Idiotical blog, check it out.

And although an invisibility cloak and time travel* are perhaps quite a distance in the future, is levitation? Where are my Quantumlock shoes?!! Want!

*Yes, several theories have already come out postulating why the neutrino experiment may be wrong.

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Phew. Bus back to Massachusetts again. It’ll be Boston this weekend with TopatoCo for the MICE convention. Cambridge is a sweet town, and I think this’ll be a really fun show.

So, traveling is going well. I love traveling, visiting friends, meeting new people. I was so happy to see my friend in NY who has a new baby, and to cook food and wander around aimlessly with old friends. But I’m also really looking forward to my sweetie, the cats, and my own pillow.

Skin-Horse has a new site design, looking sharp Shaenon and Jeffrey!

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I had a lovely time at InterventionCon. And even though I really came to them last-minute, Onezumi and Harknell totally found a place for me in the whole thing, I really appreciate it. And thanks to the amazing Gloria Chapa who made sure all us guests had the support we needed. You guys were great, thank you.

And it was so good to see Shaenon Garrity and Pete Abrams, and also to meet Jeffrey Channing Wells, Jennie Breeden, and T Campbell among many.

And the conventioning is still not over. This coming weekend I’ll be doing the Saturday-one-day-indie-comics expo MICE up in Boston, and then the next weekend APE in San Francisco. And then I rest for a wee little bit. Well, probably not.

Oh, an amusing link from Fish in the comments last week, but nicely tied into today’s strip: the world of REAL Bar-Bots.

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A good weekend of enjoying beautiful weather. Beth and I canoed around Boston Harbor (in Olympia, WA, not in Massachusetts). And I just saw a small production of “Pirates of Penzance” at the Greenlake Bathhouse, put on by a middle-school aged cast, which was delightful.

A few thanks for Spacetrawler shout-outs… Don Ahe of the awesome webcomic “Road Apples Almanac” wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE, Lys wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a half a year ago HERE, and Mark Grealish wrote a blurb about Spacetrawler about a year ago HERE. On a related topic, let me know if you write a review of Spacetrawler anywhere, I’m (usually) happy to link to it, but often am never (or very belatedly) even aware of it.

In other “news,” I just finished reading Zach Weiner’s  first collection of strips “Save Yourself, Mammal!” from his comic strip SMBC. Awesome work, Zach! Check it out. (You may remember I did some art fill-in for the comic “Snowflakes” he writes for.)

Also, Scott Kurtz of PVP along with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade, creators of two of the largest online webcomics, are co-creating a new comic called Tales From The Trenches. I’ll be curious to see how that goes. :)

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I think Yuri got that drink from a party in a themed room at Convergence.

I’m still in Albuquerque, although missing home and the cats. The SciFi Expo kinda’ felt like it was trying to find its identity, but it was nice, quiet, and everyone I met was really nice.

Mostly I just put my attention into enjoying my trip. I spent my free time with my friends Fred, an amazing cook, and Cedra, an amazing painter. We took the tram (recommended by the guy who towed Beth’s car) and hiked around the Sandia Mountains, We went to Tinkertown Museum, we hiked into see the Petroglyph National Monument, saw a music performance “Ballads and Runes” (with a hurdy-gurdy) — outdoors at the Elena Gallegos Amphitheater with the moon rising on one side and the sun setting on the other — who sung a song about an orphaned medieval gal who ends up with her knight (who got off rather easy considering his behavior).

I have put in the order for the Purfin shirts, hopefully I’ll have those in hand and off to you all soon.

Some sketches I did at the con of a Dragon (and knight) for The Hero Initiative and “Joker in Space.” (I forgot to take a photo of the Dinosaur with tentacles and the flying crab and raining teeth, drawn as per request)

Petroglyph National Monument with Cedra and Fred:

Apparently the “Career Pilot” felt I would make a good Hypochondriac. Good. I don’t think I need a degree for that.

And lastly, a Tardis:

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I made a T-Shirt ad! hahahahahah…..

“Purfin M-32″ – and – “Pierrot, Defender of Awesome!”*

There are a multitude of styles and sizes during the pre-order week, so order one now! I will probably order some for having in stock, but likely only one style of the many, and only limited sizes.

So yes, I read through all the feedback on the Purfin shirt, and am coming back with you in force. Both designs feature 4 colors screenprinted art on a solid-color shirt background (in other words, this it NOT an iron-on).

Enjoy! -Christopher

PURFIN M-32 (From this strip)

This shirt is no longer for sale

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