I wish I didn’t have to draw another memorial this week.
They sang The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.
Check out the Bowie references in Peace in Our Time. (1) (2) (3)
In a first for the comic I’ve inserted a supplement strip to the comic released Tuesday (12/08/2015). I felt the transition from Calhoun’s death to the engine problem discovery was too abrupt. I wanted to show what Das’s status among the crew was before making her the bringer of good news. There will be a regular comic tomorrow (12/11/2015) that follows Tuesdays chronologically. Sorry for any confusion.
As we say goodbye to Crewman Calhoun I thought it would be nice to acknowledge the man who played him. When I needed an old fashioned looking everyman this random result from Google Images more than fit the bill. That unsure smile gave him just the right amount of menace and naiveté. The guy’s name is Davie Swan and he was a Scottish soccer player in the late 60’s.
Sorry to take so long with this, but Basis of Proof now has a section in the episode archives so you can read through the whole story more like a comic book and less like a comic strip. I’ll update it as new strips are added.
Update: Hello, sudden unexpected influx of visitors from Reddit and Facebook! If you like this schematic there are plenty more like it in the Concept Art section. Also, the comic this site hosts has the same kind of retro-futurist look and feel with great stories the match. You find all of them in the Archives.
What it lacks in size and speed the Romulan Bird-of-Prey makes up for in firepower and stealth capabilities. Able to weaken the atomic bonds in even the densest materials, the single forward plasma canon has a destructive power beyond current Earth science. The Romulans are also the first power bordering Federation space to develop a practical invisibility shield making sneak attacks on Allied positions across the neutral zone more and more common.
With only a series of nuclear reactors to power it, the Bird-of-Prey’s biggest weakness is its delicate energy distribution balance. The drain of firing her main weapon forces the disengagement of her invisibility shield. However, unpowered weapons such as mines and sensor decoys are still launchable with the cloak engaged.
I was lucky enough to attend one of the funniest stage shows I’ve seen in awhile this weekend. San Francisco’s Oasis, which is home to a number of drag queen/king productions, hosted a line-for-line remake of Mudd’s Women. I’m sure most of us can agree this particular episode, with it’s go-go dancer style and “drugs are bad” message is ripe for a gender bending send-up. The costumes and wigs were extremely accurate and there were a lot of fans in the audience cosplaying as well. Here’s a few more shots from the performance (click for larger versions):
“We’re overloading, Captain. Engine temperatures climbing!”
Leo Walsh and his women.
Dr. McCoy’s machine goes “BEEP!”
“You mean are they gender swapping alien illusions? That sort of thing?”
The Venus drug wears off.
“You don’t want wives, you want this!”
Ryan and I with the worlds first (so far only) female Shatner Impersonator, Leigh Crow. The show is continuing all through October, 2015, and, apparently, they’ll be doing Mirror, Mirror in January, 2016.
Another week, another not-so-new alien. Xothox, that big blue, pointy eared lady is another nearly forgotten Bob Fletcher design from TMP, but this time with a couple of tweaks. The muzzle area of the “Betelgeusian” (don’t tell them their sun’s about to go pop) is an interesting mishmash that no picture does justice to, so I just did what I thought was best with it. I also wanted to give her a Kirby-esque physique, hence the giant hands and feet. Below is my initial sketch of the Betelgeusian upright.
You can never be too careful.
Yvonne Craig
1937-2015
One of my daughter’s first on-screen heroes.
