CassiopeiaQuinn

Extract From “The Farring Papers"

or "A Largely-Disorganized, Still-Unpublished Collection of Data-Packets Featuring Isidor Farring, Formerly and Presently of the Prime Galactic Navy, In Which he Relates Various Experiences to A. Ison, of Same”

The thing about trading blows with one of those Neosaurian chaps is that they tend to overcompensate while they’re using those Tyrant Suits they wear. The being inside is usually a smallish and comparatively delicate humanoid, when you get right down to it. Thanks ...

Cassiopeia AND..., Part 13

Slide into this new update! Do it! 

WiP 8/15/23

Inks by Freeglass, who is meshing more with the style of the comic as he gets more practice (although his work has always been good).

Page Commentary No. 315

Gunwild: Two sets of abs on one page, sure, but more importantly, the smuggled gun leg. And the piratey wooden replacement. Totally Psu's idea.

Psu: You gotta be careful with that weapon, the kickback on it is pretty intense. Hey, shout out again to Sat for letting us use Skarf and Lark. Maybe someday we can get her to tell Skarf's backstory...

Gunwild: Also, there were some comments about it, but I wasn't at all consciously invok...

Cassiopeia AND..., Part 12

Get on, it's safe(ish)!

WiP 8/6/23

New Futurama episodes are airing again, reminds one of how cool glowing sci-fi rings are.

Page Commentary No. 314

Brellom: Who's that guy standing behind peia in panels 2 and 3? Dude just appeared from outta nowhere... And he took Zeke's hat!

Psu: ... OH I GET THE JOKE. Heh.

Gunwild: Zeke may be referring to the constellation Taurus or something else called that, who knows? I just knew I couldn't resist the runner we have of Cassiopeia definitely seeing Zeke's face as distinctive and expressive. Want to explain some of the outfit choices here...

WiP 8/4/23

Get on the vehicle with an older stranger, young person! Don't be a square!

Page Commentary No. 313

Gunwild: I like how those two panels, and indeed only part of them, are the clear stars of the page.

Brellom: That's the power of being cute. The timing is well handled and the implied motion feels surprisingly smooth. My other favourite part is the shape carved out by the light within Feti's hair. I probably had fun with that. The slight blue glow from the tablet is good too.

Psu: Okay, maybe a fun little behind the scenes fact. ...

Cassiopeia AND..., Part 11

Some people have energy, and some people are nice, but you're saying there're people who are both?!

Are they trying to make the rest of us look bad?

July 2023 Pinup

Summer. Summer never changes. 

Full archive of past pinups HERE!

WiP 7/25/23

"Tiny Helpful Maddies" would be a pleasant show.

Regular Stuff Resuming This Week!

As our latest update noted, Psu is back from a trip! Please expect normal Patreon updates and stuff later this week!

It's Burger Time!

That's when it's time for a burger to eat you, right?

Commander Feti art by Freeglass (full version in link)

Some art Freeglass made apart from the comic in a collaboration with Frank Draws. Given the crop, one presumes she's off to ride a horse.

WiP 7/21/23

This drawing for an upcoming guest comic was done as our friend Neil designed a bunch of video game monsters just for this one specific panel. Because he makes a lotta monsters.

Assimilating DNA (Doritonacho Acid)

Our old friend Sat thought absorbing the biology of a Dorito was funnier than that corn joke we made.

(It is.)

WiP 7/15/23

Some work on an upcoming page by Punchyninja, who was super nice and gave us options! That manticore looks familiar...

Auxiliary Forces

It's a big Navy, what kind of people are in it, anyway? 

Art Update 7/8/23

Psu: BEHOLD! CORN.

Gunwild: It's worth mentioning that no, this is not canon. Kettlehead's having a bad post-cleaning dream, I bet. Also, Theira's DNA-absorption is passive rather than active - it's not too helpful from a predator's standpoint to take on all the traits of your food, after all.

Psu: Also I guess if we're being "scientifically accurate" I'm pretty sure DNA is torn apart by the processes of air-frying, syruping, or d...

Page Commentary No. 312

Gunwild: Hark!

Psu: I'm tempted to go into a diatribe with this commentary about how hard it is finding news or updates relevant to you these days, despite how every website says they've made the algorithm to suit your needs. Sometimes it might take a whole little adventurer to go out and hunt for the actual relevant information for your search.

Gunwild: Also I'm not good at writing news copy. Never have been suited to journalism....

Clean Your Room

She's not impressed. 

Cassiopeia AND..., Page 10

Time to cuddle up with an adorable webcomic.

Page Commentary No. 331

(Apologies for this commentary going up later than usual.)

Gunwild: So I think I was trying to capture something about the interesting feeling of wearing your ancestors' traditional garb, and wondering about how they felt while they were in it, possibly comparing how different your lives are, etc. But that sounded hard so I made it about a cool sci-fi knife.

Psu: I think you got some of it. Sometimes it's just in the way things are presented next ...

June 2023 Pinup

It's still Pride Month for a couple minutes where I am while I upload this, in case you were wondering. So enjoy this drawing!

Get it HERE! 

Full archive of past pinups HERE! 

WiP 6/28/23

If you're not filling the names of the stars in your sci-fi stories with inscrutable references to things, then what are you even doing?

Page Commentary No. 330

Gunwild: A subtly older-style office there, I notice. Although who knows how devices work in the space-future.

Psu: I gave her a CRT for a reason, cause I think anyone doing a proper mystery needs an office with a CRT for looking at old tapes. Okay I don't believe that's exactly true. But I like the contrast between that panel and the next one which shows a totally different level of tech. But it's still essentially a corkboard with strings like that Al...

Cassiopeia AND..., Page 9

Jump in!

WiP 6/21/23

There are actually backgrounds in this one you can't see here, but that third panel would be kind of cool if it were a gaping black void, too.

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The astronomers, astro-navigators, and stellar cartographers of numerous cultures trade stories of apparently naturally-formed space objects which, by unexplained means, evade them (or attempt to) when approached.

The simplest practical explanation for this, and the one borne out by testing, has always been that the objects are natural phenomena. Some sungrazing comets will break off frag...