This one took FOREVER to color and letter — mostly because while I was doing that, I was watching the Science Channel and the NASA Channel as the Mars polar lander was hitting the Red Planet’s surface and then waiting for images to come through.
On one hand this is always cool because of the science, but the nerd in me always thinks of the multiple movies I’ve seen of Mars probes transmitting images of something knocking out the camera. I’m drawing a blank on the most recent one as I type this, but there have been plenty. I’m especially fond of the stories both in print and on the “Justice League” cartoon, featuring Martian Manhunter.
Even though I know it’s guaranteed not to happen, I like imagining the anticipatory feeling and the sense of fear and dread that would arise if something like that would ever happen. It’s weird , nerdy fun, but what can one expect from somebody doing a superhero webcomic?
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