Captain David Skye
The holidays are always an exciting time, full of danger and peril and lack of time for even the necessities of life.
That, and Shawn’s hard drive (literally) had it’s cable fall out during an OS installation and had his operating system get completely corrupted. Repairing that took a few days, which delayed the comic past the already week-long glitch.
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We’re so close to the end of this arc we can taste it. Here, Fox and Pepper argue over drumming David out of the fleet, and decide instead to graduate him with honors. Good luck, David!
We also bring up a concept we came up with for this comic: that Star Fox has a contract with General Pepper to be the only defense force to actually fight Andross. We always wondered why Corneria had a huge local defense force… but needed four fighter pilots from Star Fox to save the day. That’s our explanation.
Lee, our Inker/Colorist, obsesses over details (it’s why he’s on our team!) and kept up an hour long conversation about the eyes of the characters in this comic. Fox, Pepper, and David use his standard “pixar eyes” technique. Slippy, being a frog, got not only a larger version of the pixar eyes, but one strongly distorted to look very watery. And Peppy, bless his heart, David had no end of trouble with Peppy. He eventually settled down to a hybrid of what he called “all of the Ranma 1/2 eye styles wrapped up in one!”
(I hope our lack of respect for the Star Fox frog wasn’t too strong. I think it’s subtle enough.)
Lee asked me if I thought that we might be broadcasting our love of having characters pop out of the frame with this issue. I… think it’s possible. The first time we ever did it was with “The Other” PC Bill in the comic where he got hit with a water baloon. I just hope it’s not obvious that Shawn hates drawing General Pepper’s hands.
I’d also like to correct a breech of etiquette I’ve been responsible for for weeks: We’ve completely failed to thank Blambot for their excellent Self Destruct Button font which has become the font for Star Fox Universe dialog. It’s very rare for a webcomic to NOT use a Blambot font (unless they use Comic Sans MS… shivers), but still, we should give them a shout out. Up until the reboot of the webcomic, we had been using only the ingame fonts from Pokemon Script Collection, but we decided in the reboot to go ahead and use extra fonts to show difference in universes and to provide a bit more oomph to the text in the comic.
My only regret is not putting the Ask Ketchum Cap Logo on Slippy’s hat.
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“You’re not going to PASS HIM, are you?” shouted Fox on the bridge of Corneria One. “He broke our contract!”
“How can I not?” growled General Pepper. “He saved Corneria while YOU took your time getting here!”
“Hey Fox!” shouted Slippy. “I have an idea!”
Fox gave Slippy a dirty look. “Shut up, Slippy. Adults are talking now.”
“What’cha thinkin’ about, Slip?” asked Peppy Hare.
“Well, I was just thinking,” said Slippy, “we could graduate the jerk with honors and tell everyone he was fast-tracking to Team Star Fox and was acting under Fox’s orders!”
Fox and General Pepper looked at each other, defeated.
“Two weeks later,” says David to Chris, Windwaker Link, and Ashley, “I graduated with my class.”
General Pepper was standing on the stage next to Cadet Captain David Skye. “For actions above and beyond the call of duty I hereby comission David Skye to the rank of Full Captain of the Cornerian Defense Force with all the perqs and requirements of that command. I hereby loan him to Star Fox for extended training.
