Added 1 new A* page:While drawing this today, I finished listening to the free audiobook version of Jules Verne's "Around the Moon"; and it was something of a relief, as it was not a great reading--the chapters were handled by a committee of readers who seem to have been selected for their singularly robotic reading style. :P Also, the 1870 work of science fiction has not aged particularly well; the text is primarily devoted to "scientific" discussions among two of the three passengers of a "projectile" shot to the Moon from a giant Earth-mounted gun, in which they spend a great deal of time proving to themselves the astrophysical theories of the day--seemed to me that Verne was showing off his education here--many of which (aether, for instance) are ludicrously outdated by current standards, so the whole is rather unintentionally comedic than mind-blowing as it might have been to contemporary readers, although I can't help but think that even many readers back in the day would have found the going rather dry; Verne blows through more than his fair share of "just sos" and other such expressions of nineteenth century pomposity. (Although this could have been at least partially the fault of the English translator, whoever it was.)
So anyway the reason I'm mentioning it is because in its somewhat deleterious quaintness, it manages to use words like "selenological" and "sidereal" quite a bit more than anyone would have had a right to expect--and it just so happens those words share the same roots (for "moon" and "stars," respectively) as the two names by which our bounty hunting anti-heroine calls herself in this episode of A*. So huzzah for Verne--and/or his translator. And hopefully this is an indication that A* will be as erringly amusing to readers 140 years from now as "Around the Moon" is to us. =P
And if this A* page seems oddly cropped to you, that's because it is; after--of course :P--having drawn and painted and scanned and prepared the whole thing, I found myself rather disgusted with the thickish, totemic style I seem to have fallen into over the past few pages, and hauling the whole thing upward to reveal the uneven, foamy bottom in what had been the lower margin at least stirred things up a bit. Here it is in its original cropping. Gar. Gotta get back to something better tomorrow. >_<
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