HA! Okay, who saw this coming? Pirate Teddy Bears from Space? You may well be asking yourself: “Has Greg and Mark lost it?” Could be, or we could just be having fun with the genre’s comics, as well as movies and TV, have made use of for so long. We have so far delved into the super-hero, science fiction, romance, and adventure realms so why not some funny animals too top it all off. Well, if George Lucas can use cute little bear like aliens in Star Wars: Return of The Jedi why can’t we? Of course none of us rank on a level  with George Lucas, so maybe a little closer to home would be Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles. Actually we probably had both concepts in mind when we hashed out the plot for this story.

But wait! There’s more! Don’t be fooled by these apparently cute, cuddly, bumbling, alien bears. Mark these words and remember them well,  ” Things are not always as they appear.” You will see what we mean on the next 2 pages as our saga continues next week! We’ve just gotten started and we still have a couple more cast members to introduce before we get into some real action with this little tale. So don’t go away, folks, you never know what we’ll throw at you next!

Remember what we said Friday? “Things are  not always as they appear.” Well, that works across the board. Our alien, bear pirates are finding out first hand how true that saying is. Having missed their targeted time period of 500 years ago, now they must deal with our modern technology. A squad of fighter jets are far more threatening than a native war party chucking spears.

This page was a bit more of a challenge than the last few. There was a lot more dialog, which by the way, ace scripter, Stephen Greg Legat, did a real bang-up job on. But with more characters and more dialog means less space for word balloons. Mark Poe, our surrogate letterer,  figured it out, though it took a bit of trial and error to accomplish. The color was not as difficult as Mark anticipated. There is a lot of color but essentially the same colors used in each panel, so that helped shorten the process a little.

Hope you enjoyed today’s page and will join us again Friday for page 14. CU then!

We are just a little late updating this morning. We’ve been running  a little behind this week and this new page was a bit more complicated in the clean up and color department. But Mark kept after it and finally got it wrapped up.The lettering was not as complicated this time which was a saving grace where this page 14 is concerned.

What did we tell you about these little guys? Did you think that was really just a musket rifle? We don’t really know yet what it was he fired, probably some form of plasma or laser, but that musket rifle just took out a jetfighter!

We still have a couple characters for this story  to introduce but as you can see the action is getting underway. Don’t miss next Wednesday’s update to find out what happens next. We sure won’t!

Page 16 is here! We have reached the halfway point of this first issue.  Nostradamus and Theo are now on the scene. It seems Nosy has seen these guys before. Remember, Nosy is actually not a dog at all, but another fourth dimensional creature somewhat like Tess. He was a “gun-runner” in his home dimension, and came to this universe to escape clients. He is capable of transporting objects as Tess does, and is able to communicate telepathically. So it’s likely Nosy has had problems with these alien Teddy Bear Pirates before or at least heard of them.

Next: Page 17 will introduce another character into the story line, one who seems to always be a thorn in our hero’s sides. Stay tuned to find out who.

Yes, we were late updating this morning. This page required some art modifications where the Auto Gyro is concerned and was a little tricky to re-letter also, so it required more time to finish. There were a lot of interuptions also, which is not unusuall at this time of year. Our workload increases do to Spring/Summer activities such as yard work and garden work, the kids are out of school and special events like Comic Convention Art Jams require more attention. All this and much more has caused us to get behind our already stressful schedule, so much so this week, that we will not be able to have a new page Friday as we had intended. We’ll try to get back on schedule next week. Please bear with us. Thanks for your patience and support!