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2010-03-10: A Sunrise Inspires (three hundred and fifty thousand years later)
Low Battery
So you're probably wondering why his solar-cell membranes weren't extended during his long sleep to recharge his battery. Sadly, in deep interstellar space, there just aren't enough photons coming in to make it worthwhile since you also have to factor in damage from space dust over the many many years.
I've been using a brush again. It's really really fun.
Please go vote at Top Web Comics and enjoy the sketches for this comic! Not very much this time, but I sure am having fun shading them with those copic markers I bought.
This comic is in the following storylines:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved. - Idle Entertainment for the Nigh-Immortal
When you are very very long-lived, you come up with some pretty strange hobbies.
This comic includes the contribution:
- T Simth suggested: A sunrise inspires.
Text transcript
Dr Quickly: ... ... I shouldn't be dreaming if I'm frozen solid... Dr Quickly: No, I'm thawing... finally got close enough to a sun! Dr Quickly: Solid looking planet... can build a new ship there. Got to time this just right. Dr Quickly: So long crappy old space ship! << KICK! >> Dr Quickly: I wonder if this place has restaurants.