Pirates of the Coal Sack #15
It’s another slice of life issue. I wanted to touch on what the regular crew do all day when underway. That required creating some more regular crew; we get the dorsal gun crew (a new swabbie, Crewman Markova, along with Leigh and Wan) and the Redshirts (Glau and Katty) join Bowlin, Bynyr, and Robbins in the Greek chorus of our series. And what do you know, I did have plans for the cute Shipfitter’s Mate Wald.
I also felt like it was time for Karol to get over some of her isolation. She wouldn’t have expected to make friends with an alien, though. For the humans who’ve never left Earth before, aliens are a distant exotic class that are some of the only people they can look down on from their place at the bottom of Earth’s social hierarchy. The junior Star Fleet crewmen, though, have been indoctrinated even more fully into the philosophy of Terran supremacy. For them the idea of aliens as peers is even harder. Do you think Grimes gets it now?
I tried a few experiments in writing and art this issue. If you spot the craft without looking for it, it failed, so I won’t say what. But I’m especially interested in criticism on this one.
Between the holidays and stuff I need to get created for the next story arc, there probably won’t be another issue this year. I may post occasional single renders as the muse takes over. But let me know what you think of this one below!
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