We wish you all a safe and wonderful Holiday Season!
Thanks for making 2013 so great.
Year: 2013
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Radio Cosmos
Have you listened to Suzi FM yet? It’s the best music you have never heard.
We have only the best in cinematic, ambient, chill and house mixes ready to go.
Just look in the sidebar for the Suzi FM player. No sign-up or download required.Give us a listen, we change up the playlist weekly. You can discover some great music, like Zagar’s “Space Medusa”.
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Sunday Science: Water, water, everywhere
So it seems that space, that we like to consider a frozen desert, has a lot more water than we first imagined. Scientist have discovered an ancient lake, deep in space, that could be the oldest reservoir known. But this is no mere lake,it’s so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water—20,000 times over.
Wow…
Go check out the article from NASA and let me know what you think.
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Sunday Science: Orbits
I had just a quick image to share with you, showing the motion of our Solar System. It’s amazing how slow the outer planets move around the Sun.
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Sunday Science: Alone in the galaxy?
I have been spending alot of time on Google+ and it’s become my favorite social media site. So many different communities out there to meet new people and learn new things.
One post that caught my eye came from Astrophysicist Brian Koberlein, where he talked about studying data from the Kepler Mission (Kepler is an orbital observatory NASA uses to search for Earth like planets in our galaxy).
Based on early analysis of data taken from the Kepler Mission, it seems there are a ton of Earth sized planets, sitting in the habitable zone of stars the same size as our Sun. But the one thing that strikes me as most amazing is that Kepler has only scanned a tiny fraction of our galaxy.Check out this image from artist Jon Lomberg that shows just how little of our galaxy that Kepler has been able to scan. There could be billions of habitable Earth sized worlds in our galaxy alone. Now consider the fact that there are about 100 billion galaxies in the observable Universe, and let that simmer in your brain for a while.
copyright Jon Lomberg jonlomberg.com So go click on the link to Brian’s post, and let a Universe of possibilities open up in your mind. It’s scientists like Brian that help us understand where we are today, so that we can find a way to a better tomorrow!
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Flying high!
Things are going great around here. I have the novelization of Suzi Quazar going, and nice timing for it to coincide with NaNoWriMo. Double dippin big in here!
Things are going so well, in fact, I was inspired to whip up a quick mood piece. I can’t think star-spanning action without thinking Kirby, so here we are!
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Issue 1 now on sale!
Issue 1 of Suzi Quazar is now on sale! You can get digital copies directly from our Q Shop, either in PDF or CBR format for only 99 cents!
You can also get a print version from Indy Planet.
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Sunday Science: Solar Powered Spacecraft
Yes, the fantastic Bill Nye is back, talking about how solar power is used in space! Check it out and subscribe to the channel if you love your science.
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Sunday Science: The Dangerous Radiation Menace!
In this edition of Sunday Science, the great Bill Nye explains to just how dangerous the radiation of Jupiter is, and the steps that NASA had to take to protect the Juno spacecraft on it’s mission to study Jupiter.
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Comic Retrospective: Artistic Evolution and Ingrained Tropes
Character design is something of an arcane art, and being entirely self-taught in the concept, I fell into a very subtle trap. I read this blog post from Rachael Rippon the other day, and it made me think back to my own experiences with this trope and how it affected the development of Suzi.
I’ve talked about my motivations for creating Suzi Quazar,and now that I have the first issue completed, I want to look back at Suzi and how she has grown from concept to current state.
Original Concept
Say cheesecake! 
The first character card When I first created her, she was really just a digital doodle, so to speak. I was playing around with the idea of a retro sci-fi theme for my personal blog, and I wanted a cutesy character to use as a kind of mascot. The character was never designed to have a name, I just wanted a sexy, stylized space girl. Easy enough. I more or less stumbled across the character by accident, but once I did, I knew I wanted to do more with her than just being a mascot. The name came to me quickly, and I put together this quick character card. Now, I am certainly not ashamed of this work at all. But I can see where my concept of a female hero was skewed. Growing up I read a lot of fantasy comics, so the chain mail bikini was deeply ingrained into me as acceptable attire for any heroine.
Time for change
About midway thru Issue 1, I was looking at Suzi and wondering what tweaks I could make. (more…)
