Sydney: “I’m just excited for a cool space adventure. Also I just totally got my oil changed by my space boyfriend, if you know what I mean.”
Max: “How ever will I crack your encryption?”
Sydney: “Dipsticks…”
Max: “Yes, thank you.”

Fun fact, an Alsatian is another name for a German Shepherd. Another fun fact, Germany has had some issues with P.R. in the last century. Or… century and 11 years. Yeah, we’re past the 100 year anniversary for World War 1. Anyway, at some point, probably slightly after the start of WW1, some people decided that German Shepherds didn’t benefit from the association with that “Great War” nation, and started calling them Alsatians. Mostly in England, I think. And the final fun fact, the only time I’ve ever heard the world Alsatian in my life is in that one episode of Blackadder where he tries to rewrite the dictionary in a single night. Granted, I’ve watched the full run of Blackadder about 35 times, but it’s still a little weird that while I was writing this page, the first, and in fact, only word my brain came up with to alliterate with “alliterating” was “Alsatian.” I mean, I only needed the one word, and Alsatian is perfectly cromulent, so I didn’t really strain myself trying to come up with another word starting with an “A.” Or really, an “AL” because that’s more alliterative? That assumes that alliterativeness is a spectrum and not a binary quality.

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The Vixen War Bride series has an audiobook out for book 2! I’ve said it before, but this is one of my favorite Xenoanthropology-ish series. I just enjoy books where the aliens are flummoxed by human behavior. Granted, the aliens in this series are under the misapprehension that the humans are a race of slavering, epitomized evil aliens that nearly extincted them 4 millennia ago, so there is quite a speedbump in opening up friendly relations. Also I enjoy that the author was definitely in the military, because the level of military incompetence and bureaucracy is at that “stranger than fiction” level that can only be achieved if someone has lived it.

 

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One more thing to pimp; If I had to pick one webcomic to definitively say has the best art of any webcomic, it would have to be “I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love” It’s a weird title, but it’s got pretty good action and… well, it’s also like 35% sex. Let’s not pretend that’s not a major draw. Anyway, they’re doing a hardcover book kickstarter that isn’t on kickstarter thing? I’ve never heard of Zoop, but eh, I wanted some nice good art hardcover smut comics, so I thought I’d let you guys know about it.

 

 

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Ooh, look! A new vote incentive!

Well, in progress, obviously. I have another one that’s actually a bit further along, but everyone was all, “Sydney Kobold vote incentive!” So I switched to this one. Plus the other one was a multi-character picture so it will actually take me longer to finish. I hope to have an update for this one each week, so stay tuned. There is a slightly higher res version on Patreon.

By the way, this gunmetal blue-ish background and teal pencils are how I draw the comic. I set it up this way so I don’t have to spend all day staring into a bright white blank page.

 

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Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.