With this page I wanted to plant a couple of seeds for future story growth.  Firstly, there’s the question of why Zoe and Faye are themselves “on the run”.  Then there’s the fact that Red may have to work out what her relationship with Faye is.  The two girls have been forced together to find a path back to Earth, but is that enough for them to become friends?  The thought of them being friends had clearly not occurred to Red at this point, so who knows?

CQ is a 2001 movie directed and written by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies (Lost), Gérard Depardieu and model/actress Angela Lindvall as Dragonfly.  It’s a story within a story where the characters are making a movie not dissimilar to Barbarella.

The image above is my interpretation of Dragonfly, the central character of the movie the characters are making.  If you haven’t seen CQ, it’s worth a look.  My fellow Brits will have to import a copy from overseas, however, as it never got a UK release.

After reading through the story from start to finish, I realised that I had to go back and edit two panels in today’s page and re-post them.  Guess who forgot that the Space Bus had luggage on the roof?!  Oops!

I’ve been experimenting recently with the idea of placing things over the top of word balloons.  This page was one of the first experiments I tried.  It’s quite subtle (panel 3 if you missed it) but I thought it helped to make a page of two talking heads more interesting to look at.

I came up with this joke when I was in the final stages of my old comic Dr Sheep and the Aardvark.  Unfortunately I couldn’t make it fit into the ending so I left it on my ideas notepad for another project.  When I was thinking of different scenarios in which Zoe would get fired, I was very pleased to discover I had a page already written!  All I had to do was change the line “Oh no, Aardvark!  Please don’t tell me you’ve been fired again!”

See you on Monday for more spacegirl fun.  Have a great weekend and tell all your friends and family about Girls in Space.  Especially your uncle.  He’ll love it!