Okay, so ... the Sun-Cutter graphic novel deals pretty heavily with the Tertia-Secuba conflict in the Kismetverse. As I'm working on today's page, I realized that I'm going to need some slang that both sides use for each other. The only thing that came up in Hunter's Moon was some of the Secubans calling the Tertians "terties", which is really just ( Read more... )

Working on a Sun-Cutter page, sketching out a street scene -- it's a train station, on a planet other than Kismet -- and thinking, hmm, since all I have is this one panel to give a sense of this world, what sort of stereotypically science-fictiony thing can I put in the background to make it obvious at first glance that this is not twentieth- ( Read more... )

New ultrasound cuff can stop internal bleeding on the battlefieldI am SO using this idea in Kismet. Of course, they'll probably be so far beyond that in 2752 that it'll be like applying magnets for "internal troubles", but I've conveniently ignored this fact of technological evolution in every other aspect of their technology, so why stop with ( Read more... )

Just a strange thought that occurred to me while penciling Signy's cleavage. ( I am SO VERY SORRY about this. )

This started off as an attempt to write Kismet porn. It ended up, though, as just some rather gentle character pieces that happen, for the most part, to include sex. They all take place in the hypothetical, not necessarily mutually exclusive future (i.e. after Hunter's Moon) and should not be considered canonical at all ( Read more... )

... Trying to sneakily convince my brain that writing Kismet is play instead of work ( Read more... )