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*Captain Mike does a little dance* WHOO HOO!!! I'm back! Did ya miss me?!? Keen has been having all kinds of server trouble but it looks like we're up and running again. And more importantly back and updating. The site's been up and down all week but the updating has been down so if you say the site...

Hmmm...

I think I may have to check it out.

Thanks! I'm glad you think my facial expressions are coming out better. I'm still trying get Jet's Ears to emote more but it's not coming out quite as well. Gek is another hard character to draw with emotion. With the vision goggles you can't see his eyes. Not that I've needed him to show much emoti...

I've been giving a lot of thought as to when exactly this started to become a more thought out kind of strip. Not just the one-off quick action stories. I think it started when I introducing the Yukiro/Jet relationship with the <a href="http://captainmike.keenspace.com/d/20010414.html">"Unstrip" sce...

I don't know if there was one thing that brought about a change. The first few story archs were very simple. As I spent more time coming up with ideas I just sort of grew more complex stories. You can only go on so long with simple fluff stories. I wanted to say/do something more complex. As I get b...

Well the little family seems to be growing again. First I added "Crash" now Jet and Yukiro have a baby on the way. I plan on have the little bundle of joy be born sometime next month. Haven't thought of a name yet though. I hadn't actually planned on introducing a little kid into this strip it just ...

Never forget you are loved.

Now about our crossover...

Well I was talking with another artist about maybe doing a crossover. but that's a little later on. If things work out.

Way cool, I enjoyed the tour a lot, Yes it seems quite a number of people enjoyed the tour. I've had my highest hits during the tour. About 2,200 or so a day on average according to my log. All in all I enjoyed writing it. Took a little longer than I thought it would but I think the end result was ...

The upper level map is done!!

I've got a link to it on my Character's Page.

The Ship map is sort of an easter Egg. If you look you'll find it!

To quote Mr Burns:
"Excellent!"

I've finished drawing the strips that comprosie the tour. As it stands the tour just covers main deck. Which is where everyone's cabins are and some other goodiees. I'm woking on the map for the upper level. Eventually I plan to getting around to showing off the lower level of the ship where all the...

On the 9 of Nov the strip mentioned that when a door is locked that the doorpanel turns red. this is not true for every room though. When i drew the Armoury door <a href="http://captainmike.keenspace.com/d/20021103.html"> HERE</a> you'll see the door panel is blue. The armory door panel is always bl...

Yes finding ways to shake up the flow so you can show more of what you want to get across of the various characters is hard. Riz came about becuase I decided I wanted Mike to keep that ship he captured. That the ship would need a pilot. Now I get to introduce him to everyone and it's kind of taken o...

Welcome back!!!

Missed you!

Maybe. I've had trouble with Gek mostly because he doesn't interact with Mike as much as some of the other characters do. This whole storyline by being told from a different perspective allows me to show some other sides of the characters. Like Yukiro's sense of humour. Jet's instructor mode(coming ...

Coming to the end of Yukiro's part of the tour. Next up is Jet. I'm tryin to actually draw with some perspective in this series. It helps to show the relation between the size of the halls and the rooms. I'm not sure how effective it is. When I get the map polished off you'l have a better idea of wh...

Oh NO! Someone has discovered "THE PLAN" about "The MAPS"!!!!

I've finally managed to draw a little map for the upper level of the Quicktrip. No lables on it, just a basic design. I'm going to have to get around to putting a finished map up soon. I'm trying to keep the story flowing as I go along with the tour. So there'll be snippets here and there of Mike tr...

Playing with photoshop was kinda fun too. You can do all sorts of neat stuff with it. Textured and pattern backgrounds and such. My standard floor is just a layer of gray that I use the texture feature to grain. I'll either use soft, regular or clumped. You get a kind of "painted cement" kind of fee...