Meet the crews...

Left to right: Main crew: Xho, Ix, Becky, Tom, Zan.
Wraith crew: Lucy (Luce), Hayley... oh snap hold on..

I've occasionally pondered doing a Top Trumps -style lineup of the crew, gauging each person's vital stats. Maybe I will one day; mug shots and special skills, strengths weaknesses, heights and other metrics. Favourite foods, amount of time spent per day gazing at the stars, favourite positions, frequency of masturbation, gin and tonic or pina coladas; stuff like that.

Ix is obviously a straight Vodka/ Jägerbomb drinker, Becky's more into red wine or g&t; Tom just goes for shit lager no doubt. Or an occasional Guinness if there are other men around and he doesn't want to seem too shallow.

But for now, here's a little lineup of our lovelies (click that pic for the mega-sized version). Just the goodies on this one, because who gives a toss about the height of baddies, eh? Not me, no siree. And there's only really one baddie knocking about the place at the moment: Admiral Fabuloso. He's likely to be as short as Ix and Xho anyway, they seem to have a limited species vertical growth.. maybe their planet is higher Gee than Earth? That might help explain why Ix is such a badass; better muscle quality and density than the Earthicans. Hey storytelling is fun! You can just make it up! Mind=blown

The eagle-eyed among you will notice that Ix grew by four or five inches between her appearance in Pilot Plaything and her recent outings in Pegasus' Wraith. I'd like to say this was a purposeful and subtle increase in size to demonstrate her growth and spinal decompression in the lower (0.8) gee environment of the spaceship, but the truth is after a few comics with her at about 4'2", I just thought she was a bit too damn short and so bumped her up to the towering colossus she is now! No wait, let's stick with the theory that she grew slowly due to months aboard the 0.8 gee spaceship, because if you're from a high-gee planet, that probably would happen, and the theory makes my randomly-changing-people's-heights seem less incompetent :D

Hey the lower gee spaceship would also explain Becky's breasts! Since my initial utopian design of the character, her nips have always pointed slightly to the ceiling, but in some scenes it just seems silly, like inhumanly pert. They sort of float ... but then if you've grown up and trained and developed your boobs in 0.8 gee (or the 0.6 gee of an orbital station College), you actually would have much more firm, high boobs. Damn that girl, this is seeming more real I NEED TO GET INTO SPACE, STAT

Oh shit I totally forgot Victor!!! Sorry Victor old bean, no offence matey boy. Ah well I think he's a little taller than Tom; probably about 6'4". No I can't be bothered to render it again to add him in. Just imagine he's off to the side, trying to restart again.

Damn, I *KNEW* there were too many females in there! Well, we'll have to have a proper boys-only comparison sometime then - who's the strongest (Victor), who's got the biggest willy (?), who can drink the most beer (Tom), etc etc.

Anyway, before I get totally into this made-up-dimensions shenanigans, let's change the subject. Google now thinks around 5% of visitors to my blog are female! Hooray some semblance of diversity at least; to be honest it's a relief just to step off the 100% male prediction that Google made initially, that just didn't seem right. As time ticks on Analytics will have a better chance at plotting the demographics more accurately (it hides the minority groups totally until it has enough stats from them, hence the 0% female initial stats), but it doesn't really matter - it's just fun trying to guess the sort of people that are into the things that I am!

Hey have a good Thursday, people. And if you're reading this on another day, sucks to be you: Thursday was ***THE BEST***

Demographics of terror and joy!

I installed Google Analytics on my blog for fun, and then I found the 'Demographics' tab.

My word! Firstly, it's a bit of guesswork on Google's part, but judging by browsing habits, you lot are 100% male. Not even 0.1% female. I mean, maybe that'll change over time, but for now Google's pretty sure May's visitors have been guys. [UPDATE: yeah Google now reckons it's more like 6% female, which is healthier guesswork]

Secondly, look at that graphic! We're apparently all single, male, 18-25 year old unemployed hardcore gamers! Amazing. Incorrect.

Does gaming lead to dreaming of scifi scenarios? Do we flit between employment sites and reading comics? Does being a gamer or a technophile mean you're a bloke? Google seems to think it does. Does being a bit of a dreamer mean you'll be unemployed? Do we watch too much TV and then go straight to dating websites to find the next relational fix?

Golly, the human race and our rough analyses eh? What we can decide from this couple of weeks of vague guesswork is that ... err ... nothing really.

But if you do happen to be unemployed, a bit of a dreamer, looking for love or all of the above then I have a message for you! Have hope! I currently do an amazing job which stretches my brain and leaves me space to think and breathe and be creative - but that wasn't always the case.

I was unemployed for a long, looong time. You measure it in weeks, then months, then when it gets over the 12 months stage and you start doing crap jobs it starts to get to you, but it can turn around. I ended up doing the wrong job in the right industry, the overqualified minimum-wage dirtbag job. But staying humble and working on initiative meant I quickly moved through different parts of the same industry.

So if you're feeling stuck, wasting time, aimless, take courage! You can do it! Ooonf!!!! I understand that confidence can get knocked, but the dreamers and the technophiles and the geeks have something that the rest of the go-get-em extrovert normal people don't - we might be slow to sell ourselves but we have an exceptional understanding of processes and ethics and an emotional depth that gives us greater potential than a thousand straight-to-employment straight-to-relationships seemingly sorted people have. But the first step is to get off your arse and take responsibility, young man!

Come on now, I'll withhold the next comic if you don't at least apply for one job. Yes it can be a crap one. No you can't spend the money on anything with a USB or HDMI port or four propellers.

And get a shower for fuck's sake! You're worth scrubbing up. You are.

You are.

Booby grabby squeezy-squeeze

Cropped and un-photoshopped (ie. a bit rough) render from the upcoming comic.

Nice skin though, nice warmth I think.

There's some better boob-grab work in comic #12 Blue Steel though - when Xho gets his hands on Zan. For that I bothered to use custom deformers to move her boobs where his fingers were creating indentations. Effective but a bit of a faff.

For some reason I'm just rushing through this next comic - it's at 26 pages now, and although the render quality's higher than Fap Club, I don't seem to be pausing to get the details right like I did with Blue Steel or Firmware.

Must be hitting my impatient stride, bashing out renders like a mentalist. Still, as long as the overall story quality doesn't drop, can't complain :)

#boobs

Reclamation

It annoyed me a while back that my old blogs had been grabbed by autoblogging stuff, essentially cock-blocking my old URLs. So, like a good internet pedant, I set about debagging them and reclaiming my old blogs! Hoorah! The system works.

The upshot of this is, if you're a Tumblr user and would like to subscribe to my stuff through that, my old URL is back, baby! I'll check it just as regularly, but the blog posts will be the same - I've set it up to sync the two.

Also means if Tumblr or Google change their terms and decide no more boobs on their web stuff, there's a backup :)

And for that really retro feel, I also managed to get hold of my original blog URL again. Only points back here, but still, it exists once more. Why not join me and head over for a few minutes to breathe in the heady air of pre-2010.

Combo comic dev

I've had a chance to work on the next comic; in fact I've changed my mind again and instead of it being a little quick one, this is going to combine two 'acts', making it more of the former type of comic - you know, where things happen to the plot not just hump-time.

Not that I've got anything against hump-time, you understand. I mean let's face it;

Comic 15: Fap Club

Comic FIFTEEN!! Woop woop! This time yesterday, it wasn't much good and had a rubbish ending, but I've sorted that out and BAM! Much better, fits the series much more nicely I think. But you people of the internet aren't going to see the draft version so you'll never know how crap it could have been, eh? Comics are funny like that; they're all hard work and clunky rendering until the last minute when something clicks and it all fits together. All the boobs and willies and bums flying all over the place in one finally orchestrated dance. Splendid.

Read it slowly. SLOWLY.

Don't rush through it, you'll miss the point. Slowly, seriously: trust me on this. Download Comic #15 →

Or from G.E-Hentai here

And let me know what you think!