Limelight roulette

If you have a massive Space Trek Fleet Wars binge and read through the whole saga in a couple of sittings (like I just did), you might notice the characters swing in and out of the limelight a little.

And Becky and Tom in particular - the key original couple - have been on the back burner for a few comics, haven't they.

Trouble with having quite a few characters (and it taking so long to render each scene) is that you can't really cover everybody all the time, otherwise each comic would either be 500 pages long, or stupidly jump about and be just sex scenes with no explanation. And if that's the kind of comic you're after, heck there's plenty of others out there that do that. In fact they all do that, eh. I'm not really into that - I'm more the slow build-up, slightly-more-believable type of comic producer I guess.


In the later comics, I've preferred to concentrate on the most awkward/human thing out there! So Blue Steel is Zan's main event (and she hasn't featured much since). Becky and Tom haven't had much focus since Bum Deal - again because that comic was all about those two. Hayley and Victor haven't had much airtime since Firmware - same deal, same reason, even though there was loads of potential - Hayley's lost virginity and eating out Luce was just skipped over so I could focus on Ix and Xho. Common theme is that I go for an awkward storyline, explore it slowly, then get those characters out of the spotlight to give others a chance.

The big overarching story will return a little to Becky and Tom for comic 20, but so you understand the balance, the reason Ix and Xho have had so much focus throughout is actually because in comics 1 and 3, I raced through the relationship between Becky and Tom - and I always thought it would be nice to do it more justice, do it more slowly, hence the introduction of the Ix and Xho characters, and the much slower and more awkward build up to their having sex. Slower and more awkward = believable/feasible = seeeexxxyyyyyy. Well, that was the plan at least :)

It's not really to tease the fans, it's actually just my wanting to do a single brother-sister storyline and have it be believable. So there we are.

Anyway it's getting late and I'm sitting at the back of a pub and it's Friday evening so it's getting a bit busy in here for my liking:- I'd better hit Publish and get the hell out of here, before people get a view of my screen! If you've just walked into a pub in Holloway and saw someone sheepishly grab their laptop and shuffle out, that was me! Byeee! *runs*

Have a great weekend everyone!

Anchorman reference #1

Anchorman reference #2

Viagra Pez: copyright Project Bellerophon 2016

Extras DVD: the original script for comic #19. Plus banter.

Google locked me out of the blog again! Very annoying. If that'd happened a week ago, right before I'd published comic 19 (which is out, by the way, in case you hadn't spotted it), I'd have gone completely nuts. And so would you. Anyway I'm back in now, all I had to do was try and remember when I set the account up... how the hell should I know?! Eugh, anyway, stop ranting about google. I love google really. I would totally neigh for them, if you know what I mean.

I meant to say about the comic: there were 1,200 downloads of it in the first two days! BLIMEY! That's loads. Goodness. So could you do me a favour and

Comic 19: The Quiet Ones

Not going to lie, I'm pretty proud of this one. What an utter, unbelievably huge amount of work it was. Next comic will be smaller and much more boring, I promise.

What should I say about it ... it's a quiet, gentle, awkward series of discussions and an unstoppable tsunami of a build-up to about twenty climaxes over the course of 165 pages. Finally Ix and Xho well and truly ... well, you'll see.

Enjoy it. Read it all very slowly. Heck, do it in shifts for the full effect. Have a great weekend! It's Friday! Comic day, baby!

DOWNLOAD COMIC 19 HERE >>>>>>
(Zip file download icon is at the top of that link; get the full 64mb zip for proper res images, eh?)

On its way ...

So I took the afternoon off work (lovely and sunny anyway, right?) and finished finished FINISHED the comic. Yes indeeeeed. However, I'm on a train right now (long story) (ok, not a long story, but a boring one) and I'm uploading the comic to my google drive so I can share it with the world.

Thing about wifi on trains is ... it's on a train. So it's crap. You go through tunnels and past great radio noise patches and basically uploading a 64mb zip file takes forever.


Let's all just imagine we're back in 1997 and trying to get the dial-up modem to stop screaming and start joining those cheeky little bytes, eh? So while we wait, I can blog about it and tell you all it's on the way. So here I am.

Dum de dum.

Don't mind me.

So how've we all been?

Right, back to comics

Family bathtime. Good clean fun.

...and after that brief intermission to rant about the crumbling unethical politics of the UK, let's resume normal service.

I've done 165 pages. All the renders are done. In fact if I get a few hours peace this week, comic 19 [AKA The Greatest Bellerophon Comic Ever] might even be out on FRIDAY! COMIC DAY, BABY!!! Woop woop! No promises, but it's pretty likely.


The title of comic 19 will be 'The Quiet Ones', as a bit of a reference to The Dreamers (see pics). I know, another slightly straight film reference a la Shadows and Dust, or Fap Club. Thing is, the title Space Tits Ding-Dong Rub-A-Dub kinda set the bar pretty high for madness, so these straight titles balance the series out a little. And it includes a great big non-talking scene - which was pretty difficult to do but is I think more realistic (people don't talk ALL the time, after all). Difficult to do because having no speech bubbles in a comic encourages the reader to race through it, and is a lot of rendering effort because you have to move the plot on with expressions and poise rather than spelling out what characters are thinking all the time. Much harder. But I'd always wanted to do a silent scene because some of the best human interactions are silent, and you don't get that a lot in comics. Hence The Quiet Ones.

Anyway; The Dreamers - if you haven't seen it, it's a film about a guy discovering this isolated brother and sister who've inhabited a cool deserted apartment, surviving as their parents leave them for various reasons. Very good film. And seems appropriate considering my usual brother-sister intrigue stuff, eh? Yes. That's right.

In fact it's very fitting; they all just hang out semi-naked, talking nonsense and human politics the whole time. Chuck in some stars and an occasional alien and you'd basically have my entire comic series.

The Quiet Ones may also be the title of a non-great 2014 horror film, but heck they apparently didn't do a very good job so it's time to redeem the title, n'est ce-pas? Oui.

... pardon?

So, the comic - like I say, I've done all the rendering now; it'll definitely be 165 pages. An absolute mammoth then, with at least enough content for five separate comics. But heck I'm not selling them so I can decide how to divide up the plot, right? And I like the massive comic thing, because it gives you time to really get into it, really escape into the curious world that's being described. That's why not much happens in The Dreamers - you sort of get absorbed into the believable world of the siblings, makes it 100,000 times hotter when the slightest thing happens.

Only jobs left to do on the comic are (1) bit of speech tightening-up - like tweaking the conversation so it's either (a) sexier, or (b) funnier, or (c) flows better. Job (2) is the final task - adding all the 'wetness'; yep that gross job that always comes last. Photoshopping fluids is a bit of a mission normally, but for this marathon comic it's going to be a total nightmare because heck there's ... there's just SO MUCH OF IT!! Needs to be done though. That's why I can't guarantee this Friday - am too much of a perfectionist, even with sperm.

A Sperm Perfectionist? Is that a thing? Should be.