the SPACE girl Comic [FINISHED!!]

NEWGROUNDS COMIC LINK
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/aetherionart/the-space-girl-ch-00-part-1

OLD CONCEPTS FROM 3 YEARS AGO + RAW COMIC SKETCHES
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-DwNUih20I4sJnyU9Bp11aZkIazucyPH?usp=sharing

this took a long ass time to complete because between the making of and completion of this one shot, where about 500 drawings of the things that were the usual "money makers".
Like fanart of booba and that was feeding patreon pretty well up until the algorithm of twitter changed and advertisement became useless.

SO with that, i figured the only thing to do was go on hiatus for awhile to finish what i started 3 years ago. And this was made out of curiosity of the manga making process, which i've found is a bitch.

I also had no real script in mind or a stopping point for this one shot, i originally wanted to just do 10 pages for fun, which grew into 51 (not including cover page).  I didn't take the dialogue of this too seriously, if that's at all clear. The main inspirations for this narrative style was shit like cutie honey and flcl, things that look good but are very unorthodox. And my focus was completely on making something that's readable through the visual action alone, so i made the words the last priority. That was almost the perfect strategy, though my work looked as i wanted it to, some of the conective tissue was kinda slighty too fucjking stupid and not well thought out. But i think i managed to deal with it the best way i could.

It was very interesting, the feeling of different versions of myself throughout 3 years contributing to the same body of work. I've never done something anywhere close to that before, and it was somewhat a concern as to whether or not i'd be able to maintain the same vision. Coming from me, i'd say i did pretty fuckn good. THe joy i was feeling looking at how much better i could contribute to my old work with my ever improving skill set was magnificent.

Now, back to the thoughts behind the narrative; it's not as though i had zero plans at all, i had a central theme and idea, but it wasn't literally translated into this chapter. ANd because it's so meta it really wouldn't make sense to explain what the point of this was to anyone thats not me.
So the point was about illustrating a sense of being or feeling lost in a mental trash heap. Throughout my entire life, i've been no stranger to being alone or ostracized, so that develops into feeling like i merely exist meaninglessly, equivalent to something discarded in an everlasting void, yadda yadda yadda. Hence the title Lost in Space, or at Sea. The meta is this was a collection of all the things that plagued and upheld my art career at the time, that being a desire to move into a particular direction with what i want to do always ending up B-lining into somewhere deserted inadvertently. And the use if items and themes related to fuckn uhh 2000's kid references was meant to reflect a sorta surge that's generated from nostalgia, a point where the shaping of the soul was on full display. This is why Zeta (Space Girl) is able to transform based of a variety of TV shows from 200 channels and conform her abilities to it. It's like how you fill a blank slate with familiar imagery to feel pppp "impowereded"...that word is ruined for me. Fuckn college kids, dumbest people on earth. Anyways, that's about the thick and thin of what made this not only an ordeal but a very uh...whatever it is kinda story. I'm sorry for the wait, and I hope it's still at least a little cool.

Also, notice how Space Girl finally has a name now? Never settled on shit, til literally 3 days ago. This comic has been in production for 3 years, but Space Girl was my OC for 9 years. SO the name i went for is Zeta, cuz its spacey and sounds cool. And cool names for cute looking characters is neat. She WAS going to be called Miruki or Milky as in milky way, but ... ehem...TURNS OUT there's a show called Milk chan, who's a spitting fucking image of space girl that's been around since the early 2000's. AAAND i only learned about it like 2 years ago. SO idk if thats evidence of the 100th monkey test being real and we are all on a interconnected hyper dimensional grid space OOORR what but, mm.

Anyways thanks for waiting, reading, and supporting for as long as you have.