page 866 – literally nothing to see here
Okay, so I THINK what happened here was that I was scrambling to get extra material done to cover a convention trip, and misnumbered some scans in all the confusion. I’m pretty sure somebody actually pointed this out at some point in the years afterwards, but I of course forgot again. UNTIL NOW.
Obviously, I could have just bumper the page numbers back by one, but I didn’t wanna spend the next 300+ pages having to remember to alter EVERY SINGLE FILE NAME, so this was a better means of plugging up the hole. And more importantly, this is technically the very first NEW page of Far Out There to be posted on the new site! I always like to defuse the tension surrounding something big by catching myself off-guard and not giving myself a chance to think about it.
Logical Reason: The robots have one eye that is bigger than the other for cost saving reasons. The large eye has more features and a wider array of viewing modules, including sonar. The smaller one has less, but has a couple that the larger one lacked. As such it was both cheaper and more efficient to have two eyes of different sizes, particularly with the tiny robots which would look odd with two huge eyes.
Far Out There Style Reason: There’s companies out there that sell “Monocle Robot Eyes” and other large robotic eyes surprisingly cheaply, but they need a second eye to cross-reference images and refuses to work with eyes of the same type as a marketing strategy to get people to buy both the cheap big eyes & expensive small eyes. Mad Scientists have often gotten a significant amount of both stocks for free as new versions come out, as part of their “Marketing Strategy” (the Mad Scientists receive versions from two generations ago that the companies can no longer sell).
Take your pick, reader of the comment section! Blitz will likely never make either cannon, because it’s unimportant and attempts to impose design restrictions on his designs. That’s something I support, by the way.
Also, Mooney only has this paged tagged. I was mildly curious, but now just assume that they’re another not-yet-introduced-in-the-main-comics character.
Lazy Artist Reason: I don’t have to worry as much about drawing a character off-model if that character is already asymmetrical to begin with.
Also, Mooney is that girl from The Killer Station of Deadly Doom, who indeed hasn’t ever appeared outside of Incentive and Patreon comics, as far as I can remember.
So, this appears to be taking place “today”, as opposed to TKSoDD being 10-ish years ago, so is this the first ever appearance of adult Mooney, or she’s taller because she’s closer to the camera and she’s still the same as when she was a kid? Because she certainly appears older to me here, so I’m thinking this is her “today” appearance.
The correct answer is that she’d drawn the way she looked in Killer Station of Deadly Doom because I was afraid no one would recognize her if I didn’t (and taking the time to explain things would kill the gag)
Wait…aren’t trees normally already alive as their default condition? (sure, I know what Dr. Freeman means, that they started moving around and rampaging, but still…)