Far Out There

Another day of being REALLY ACTUALLY ALMOST JUST ABOUT FINISHED WITH CONVENTIONAL WISDOM STUFF (check later this weekend and something should be up) which means another one panel comic I could get done quickly… which I decided at the last minute to give a complicated, multi-layered lighting that ended up taking QUITE a lot longer than anticipated to get right. I mean , I do like the result (even if I wasn’t able to cram in as many shout-outs to other sci-fi properties into the brick-a-brack as I’d intended) but so much for saving time.

Fun fact: at one point I’d planed on one-panel comics like these being a much more regular occurrence for Far Out There. Newspaper comics had a much bigger influence on my formative years than comic books, so early Far Out There strips were way more stand-alone, gag-a-day affairs with a minimal number of panels. Even after the concept drifted into something more story based, I toyed with the idea of having a second side-comic featuring the characters in silly, out-of-continuity situations. I eventually dropped this idea on the grounds of being too much work… only to stumble back into it anyway in the form of Voting Incentives.

Speaking of which, Voting Incentive!

(Historical Notes: Past Me is selling Even More Past Me’s early plans short.  At one point, I was entertaining the plan of having a different Far Out There series for every day of the week.  Like, Monday would be the storyline comic, Tuesday would be the one-shot gag comic, Wednesday would be a Sprite Comic (this was the early-to-mid-00s after all) and so forth.  After all, what kind of lazy loser old man WOULDN’T be able to regularly crank out a new comic page every single day?  That’s a TOTALLY sustainable plan!)