Now that our computer is working again I can update my thoughts on the recent strips (Let this be a lesson, don't let a dragon anywhere near your computer).

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Nicola attempts to put his "Smooth moves" on me. Can you believe that?! Yuck! Maybe human females like their men hairless, but I certainly don't! I don't think I really like men in general. Besides, I only date within my own species thank you very much.

Meanwhile Rebecca is figuring out that those weird online news sites might be totally crazy.

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And look who it is! Our favorite big purple dragon seems to have gottem both pilots to the ground okay. Condolences to that pilot who had to endure riding Moroni's back. It's not as fun as those fantasy books make it out to be, it's really scary! Moroni's back is slippery and it feels like you're about to fall off and... well, anyway, it seems our dragon is off on his adventure again.

Onward to Progress City! ...I guess.

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Rebecca has a large stake in finding Moroni because if word got around about who she's employing at her business, the government is going to be the one asking questions. :D And we don't want them hanging around because we know what the government will do. I've seen enough alien invasion movies to get the idea.

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You gotta love Gus' dry humor when the meph has been scattered. :3 I wonder if he regrets hiring us now. Even though this whole Moroni getting lost problem was partly his fault.

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Yup, I got a change of clothes! A gal needs her support and a little back pack to keep track of all her tools. :D Never leave hone without them!

Dropping in to throw in some thoughts about our comic here. :3

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Moroni still has a bit to learn about human aviations. Just because the birds are metal doesn't mean they can fly like a bird. Though technically you could do some tricks with a large passenger jet, I highly don't recommend trying it.

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Normally any commercial jet is pretty much a sitting target against a jet fighter with missiles, but I had this crazy idea-- what if the jet actually Missed theirtarget? How sad would it be for the jet fighter pilot to have to radio base and tell them that an unarmed, relatively slow, large target managed to dodge the jet's attack? Ahhaha... boy I feel sorry for everyone involved with Moroni here. XD

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Luckily for Moroni, he get's mistaken for falling debris as the two F-22s scream on by waving their victory... whatevers. Poor Jason, I don't think he's ready to experience riding the back of a dragon. I know I wasn't when I first tried it.

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Yes, I like grilled cheese sandwiches. Kinda... I don't really eat them with the grilled part. :3 And boy Gus has a lot of explaining to do! Ya, see, Moroni really is like a kid. He don't know much about modern things so don't ask him to mail himself. He'll do it. Though it never works if it's chore related like when I asked him to do the dishes if he cares about eating dinner. The darn dragon eats without plates!! How uncivilized! :o

Okay, I'm officially *OVER* this planet. When it takes me an Ozlet of my time to get two computers to talk to eachother through a wireless network, I have to call it quits and go home. Except my rocket is currently impounded at Terrene. Grrr... Yeah well, guess I could just get some spare parts together and build my own wireless network system. Except the standards you humans use on your computer networks is only a step above smoke signals by my perspective.

How do you humans put up with this? :o

So like, I went back through these posts and added links to each page on the request of Lydia. She thought it would be more helpful to link the pages I reference since the website goes by dates and not page numbers.


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I found some reference materials for the artist to draw cockpits... heh, such an unfortunate name for the front end of a long cylinder tube. Anyway, there's this creepy corrolation I see between the average size of a human head and Moroni's hand size.


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There's a lot of glowing buttons on the controls of a large airplane. I'd be lying if I said I knew what they all did (I'm technically just a rocket engine mechanic). However, it's a shame that for those pilots who do learn what all those buttons do and are entrusted with the lives of hundreds of people daily to fly them from point A to B... pilots don't seem to get paid a lot.

I honestly think pay should increase with the amount of responsibility with people's lives you have. It seems to be that way with doctors. Not so much with pilots, firemen, and the police. Weird, huh?


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Ah, the return of Lieutenant Colonel Tarentino. He's quite a character. Unfortunately that blue and white poster behind him got covered up. It was supposed to look vaguely like blue prints for the Star Trek ship Enterprise since the friend we based our character off of is a big Trek fan.


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Progress City does reference a real place... sort of. I might have mentioned that already though. I like the editing of the two conversations cutting back and forth and overlapping. :3

Alright, trying to catch up on this blog. Hey, when you're dodging men in black you don't get a lot of time to write journal entries. :3 Luckily secret government organizations aren't too bright since loyalty tends to buy you the lowest common demoninator on Intelligence. Anyway...

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The real life guy that I based Gus off of really loves making those bad puns... I mean he makes them daily. It's cool by me since I kinda do the same thing, but I guess it could get on a purple dragon's nerves and you never want to annoy people who can set you on fire.
I have no idea why I put that painting over the couch. It's like... abstract art I saw once at the airport.


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Fact: The United States Postal Serice doesn't own their own planes. They ship airmail by several other carriers, most popular being FedEx. I was thinking of making the parody company "Fed Up" but it was a bit too cheesy and it's been done before. A lot. I looked up how long it really would take to mail a cat across the United States... 10 days advanced notice is not unheard of.

"But it was purple!" - I like this little running gag. It seems to grow on me.

I managed to rough up the website artist to make me some new icons for this blog. :3 I like blogs, though I'm used to the kind that will speak back to you any kind of post or reply you've made. You wouldn't believe how much that corrects the problem of having troll on your planetary network =^_^=

Seriously.

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Mmm... okay I'm not sure how you humans managed to pack so much deliciousness into these little treats with a hole in them, but donuts are great! If I ever leave this planet, I'm taking this back home with me. Meanwhile Moroni's guilt actually overcomes his hunger to eat his donut! :O Rebecca's last frame is just beautiful. So scared. :3

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Okay, planes are hard to draw it seems. Dancing, pretty easy by comparison. That background was narly redone from scratch. The radio there is the actual weather radio that the artist owns... except the weather part doesn't really work. Yeah, kinda useless, isn't it?

Everybody covets their donut.

Okay, now that I've come out of my sugar coma I think I outta do some thing like an update here. Gah, your food called "Chocolate" is evil! :o But oh so tastey at the same time. I'm amazed you give this chocolate away on Valentines Day. We usually don't give away sweet treats back home (Sweets are rather rare) so to find a planet where you humans gobble this stuff up like breathing air is kinda... weird. But in an interesting way.

Anyway, some notations I jotted down on the latest comic pages--

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Dave make his second appearance here and he's just as odd as always. You gotta love this man for his odd behavior. Fabreze fights aliens? Well up until I showed up I guess it was working... and that stuff is pretty fragrant.

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Gus' hanger at the airport is #18 if you were wondering. Yeah, it's a nod to the famous "Hanger 18" of legend back when the government needed a place to stash odd 'ufo bits' they recover before Area 51 was built. At least so the legend says. What's really out there I dunno... considering Terrene is within the White Sands area I guess a red herring would be appropriate.

Also, you can see I'm sporting my new sandals. Made 'em myself. Though I didn't write that part into the comic, I didn't feel that it was a necessary thing to explain as the belt is more important. Do understand that us Arkasti do not possess "foot pads" on our feet like your dogs and cats do. So remember all that time walking barefoot in the dirst couple comics? Yeah, that hurt. A lot.

Another update from you're mostly friendly resident alien, ME!

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It took about 3 days to comeup with a hman look for moi. I tried various ideas from copying other people I know to magazine articles, but in the end something generic would be best since I don't want to stand out in a crowd. I think it's funnythat I could pass as a farm girl in that disguise...

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The shoes are of course a hologram, though an interesting note is that we Arkasti don't have footpads like say... dogs and cats do. The artist didn't think it was necessary to have to draw out that I have shoes of some kind to wear like with the previous disguise, so pretend I got sandles or something. I dunno, you humans wear all sorts of odd things on yout feet.

Though props for "toe socks". I love the toe socks.

Ah, Mrs. Damon.... gosh she's creepy. Well, in dialog specifically (Her comparison of me to her late cat Lilly was jumbled together for the illusion of her rambling on). Here we have her with her hair down a bit (no pink hair tie this time), but she also doesn't have her walker. Well that's reasonable. I mean she's only standing outside her apartment... which she seems to do often.

What's up with that?

This should get me caught up to speed here... well, speed as in I'm up to date with my comic pages on this journal and not taking any kind of questionable drugs... cause that red stuff is bad enouggh. Blech!

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One thing the artist tried avoiding with Rita is to make things lke emotion and humor completely alien to an android without some kind of hardware upgrade. I would say that if Rita is a learning machine then figuring out things like emotions can be learned just like babies learn them. In this case, Rita shows up her early grasp at sarcasm. :) Also, she does smile a bit more which is a nice development.

However she certainly reverted to surprise and anger when she sees that bald-headed alien in disguise! Remember, Rita did fight with this "guy" back in the arc 'First Wings Dawn'.

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I love my pose on the 5th panel (center row), I have that attitude showing off. :3 Rawr! Hey, if you were nearly shot by your friend, you'd be pretty vocal about it too! Rita also has a nice response to Lydia about US Citizenship. The idea is that unlike the stereotype that aliens and such have no parallels to Earth culture, we know how ome things like money and countries work.

Rita was made by Terrene, and I assume they're very good with their work. I mean... I swear she has a "Made in the USA" tatoo on her butt. Um... I shouldn't get into details like that.

Oh. My. Degausser.

This thing still exists? :3 Mrrowr, it's quite dusty, but I think I can fix it. Oh yes, I think I can. Alrighty, I'm going to put a little elbow grease on (I wonder why on Earth we have to grease up our elbows to do any sort of industrial repair?) and make something of this.

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This would be... the 5th story arc the artist put together on us and I think I'll go over some thoughts on the first two pages. Firstly- he's getting a bit better with drawing buildings. :3 Yeah, mental note to you all who draw: Reference. Materials. Also nothing says "What the Fur" the same way that a giant talking purple cat stomping your city does. Ha ha ha...

...wait I live there.

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Vehicles have usually been a pretty difficult ting to draw, but an F-22 model was borrewed from a friend in order to get some help drawing the plane for this page. Originally the script called for an F-16, but heck, why not go modern?

Of course we end with finding out that it's all a dream from our beloved Moroni. Ha ha, Lydia always says he's thinking of food. Can't blame her, Moroni usually does! :3 Oh, Rita did laundry in the kitchen sink in case you wondered about that. Yeah, this apartment is just a 1 bedroom, 1 bath unit without a Washer/Dryer hookup, butnothing wrong with an android maid doing your dirty panties. ;)

Hey, if the Jetsons get a maid, I get a maid! :D

My dragon friend has posted my theory about The Planet Mars being a surviving moon rather then a planet of it's own. In that respect, it would mean Mars is no more a planet then Pluto would be... something of a lost moon that made it's way into an orbit of it's own, if a bit skewed (in both cases, since Mars's orbit is very elliptical and Pluto's orbit is off center).

But with all the hype about "The Mysterious Red Planet" I assume most humans on this Earth will not accept such a bold theory such as that. However, I trust that some humans do think outside the box and at least find an interest to think about such things. So what do you think?

In this "Special" edition on conspiracy, I'll give you a quick synopsis on how business works, their thought processes, and explain their motivation. At this point you may want to get yourself a good drink and read while you quench your thirst. That way, should you find something funny, you can experience your favorite beverage gliding through your sinuses and shooting out your nose.

This may develop into super powers, or at least a nifty college party trick.

Business works on a very simple principal. It's called the Money Principal: MONEY!! NOW!! PANTS!! IN!!
As you can see, there are four aspects to this way of life. The first is "Money"... That pretty much sums up everything about business because frankly they don't do much of anything else other then make profits. Money isn't necessarily a bad thing, but business hoards it to a MUCH greater degree then all the dragons of the world combined (And believe me, there's more of us hanging around then you think). The greed for monetarily dead green paper is astronomical, causing much lying, cheating, and backstabbing that harkens back to the dark ages of evil knights, unjust kings, and greedy dukes.

And they wonder why I don't get home sick?

Secondly, there is the "Now" aspect. Business doesn't want to wait to make a profit any more then a fat child wants to wait for a candy shop to open. Waiting doesn't pay their tri-centennial trips to Las Vegas or their monthly loan installment on their new Rolls Royce. So money has to be made here in the present. This can cause many conflicts of interest. Firstly, Gaia has time set up as a means to keep things from happening all at once. If a business could manipulate time, they'd make now a pretty wide margin in your day and they'd be happy, but you don't wanna know what happens in consequence to your free time. Luckily they're too busy swimming in their hoards of cash to bother researching temporal magik. Secondly, they put themselves before the rest of us. This means we always get the leftover scraps of the overall pie of life when it comes to monetary gain. I dunno about you, but I feel left out of the love.

The third aspect is "Pants". Okay, you may be thinking what this has to do with business (Or anything other then fashion), but I assure you there is a point to this. Pants play a crucial (If misinformed) role in business. As a dragon of some 185 years I have never worn any articles of clothing more complex then a collar (And I only wear that so that I stop injuring Animal Control personnel. Think about it). Humans wear clothes all the time. Heck, some of the weirder ones wear it in the shower (Don't ask me why) and humans look down upon those who wear too little or no clothing at all. It's something of a status symbol to wear clothes in human society. But the business people, they all share one thing in common that will remain constant until the end of time. Pants. Think about it, have you ever TRUELY seen a business person at work without pants? No you haven't. And don't think that shorts count because anyone wearing shorts is only doing so to conform to "Shorts Friday" events at work and is that honestly something you want on your resume?"

"Wears shorts on Fridays to work for profit." ...Yeah, I didn't think so either.

Back to pants. Now the reason why business people always wear pants is to hold important things... like their Money! You don't see me carrying around gold coins and gems in my pockets right? That's because I Have No Pockets for such things! I use a convienient basement or cave for my money. Business people don't like caves, they don't want to be away from their money. That's why they wear pants. You've never seen the kind of deep pockets a business person has until you string them upside down and shake them for what their worth. Don't stand under them when you do that, you'll be buried alive! Business people have the biggest pockets in the world and they can't live without the ability to carry their money (and cell phone) around with them. Try this sometime: Set a business man's pants on fire, they'll cry like a little girl! There goes their $150 dollar cotton/nylon synthetic blend Calvin Klein pants and their ability to hold money. Without their pants, business people are simply naked from the waist down.

And do you really want that image in your head?

Finally the fourth aspect of "In". This refers to the bandwagon effect that when there's a new trend on the market, everyone must conform to it and sell it like it's more important then air! Take the old "Tickle Me Elmo" toy when it first came out years ago. Everyone who was anyone had to have one of these. I don't know why that was (I would have set mine on fire along with the pants) but every business had to sell them. You couldn't go into a gewelry store without them advertising "FREE Tickle Me Elmo with purchase of $100 necklace or more!. Don't even get me started on Beanie Babies. Happy Meals never tasted the same when I accidently bit into a Quarter Pounder with Ty fuzz. This is a tactic that all businesses use to make "Money" in the "Now". Even if under sane circumstances they'd never sell such things, they will when there's a big demand for it. It's all about the Money & Now... and Pants so they can carry their Money.

So how does that effect you, the average consumer? Easy, unless you're money or Pants, you'll get ignored. Since the rest of us aren't in that equation, we suffer the after effects of the business greed. And that is why society is really messed up today, business only cares about their Money and their Pants when they could be living a healthier life helping the rest of us make the rent each month. When you die, you can't take your money with you. I know, I've seen some people try. God isn't too happy when someone trying to sneak into heaven with pants.

Why do you think angels are depicted in oversized white robes without pockets? Think about it...

A few things:

1) Believe in ghosts? How do you explain them?

2) Pie. I think someone has the right idea here.


3) What's your take on magic? Not the card game... :(

4) Have you seen the shop? I mean, just look at it. Its neat.

Please Comment...

Yes, I am aware there was no comic Sunday. And no apology Monday, for that matter. An apology might indicate that we were somehow at fault here. I'm not willing to admit that as much as some will not admit defeat. But as a special surprise bonus (This week only!) you can have pie on the site. This is in no way making up for the "delay", because there is none. This is the way it’s been planned. As far as you know.

Animation project is still underway; however this is where you come in. We require the assistance of any willing FEMALE voice talent. Anyone who can do a female voice (preferably female) should apply within this post (voluntary basis, no real monetary payment can be made, but you do get your name in the credits). And now back to your regularly scheduled Journal postings.

As we're working on some little side projects for the web site, we were curious to ask if you all wanted to see more artwork or animation first? Okay, yes you get to have both, but which one first is what we're asking. :) Just curious.

Have you ever noticed that the only way we could get people to pay attention to the worlds problems is if people die? How sad...

If you've been keeping up, you will notice several additions to the site.
1)Firstly, the shop page is finally open. At this time there is only one print available, however in the near future there will be a series of prints guaranteed to fit any collection. Your help in funding the conspiracy will be most appreciated (as the government doesn't pay us much).
2)Secondly, on that same page is information and pricing about commissions. Just drop us a subspace relay, or if that's not possible, an email will suffice for any other info.
3)Thirdly, the Email Responses page is now up with the first reply. Please enjoy, and don't forget to send in your own questions.

For those who have been tracking the website outage, things should be returning back to normal. I really had nothing to do with getting it back, I just delegated the job. I know I can get back to the website, but maybe the DNS changes haven't replicated to your side of the internet. Just letting you know.

I found this article about everyone's favorite multi-billionaire, Bill Gates. If you need a whole department just to regulate how much spam gets to your email, then I wouldn't boast about your anti-spam technology. Really, its not anti-spam, the word anti would mean it gets destroyed. When in fact it just gets deleted, and then the source sends more. Its like your hanging off the edge of a cliff with someone stomping on your fingers and you got this team that stops that someone from hitting your fingers. Most of the time. Maybe you don't get 4 million hits, but even just 10 hurts.

The comic may get delayed till Monday. So you all know...

...and why is that? You're planet is crazy!! It's tossing these giant spinning storms that level everything and render all my electrical play things useless.

Well, except for the ones I rigged up with batteries. Yeah, and your batteries only go up to 9 volts. Whats up with that? On my planet 9 volts might work a nightlight. Then again you humans haven't figured out Atomic Batteries, so maybe thats why?

On my planet, these spinning weather patterns aren't as common as our weather is colder and drier then yours. Of course our planet has more snow then yours so ice storms are more common.

I'm currently working on a device that should neutralize those spinning weather patterns. It should work, but it would require boiling two million gallons of ocean water and some group calling themselves Envoronmentalists or something threatened to sue me.

What does "Being sued" mean? O.o`

Updated the Fan Art section last night. 24 hours later, updating the journal to make everyone aware of the update to the fan art... stuff. Those hurricanes sure make you fall behind on things. O.o`

Anyway, three new fan art images up and currently working on the next comic page for Sunday. As I gain more free time and catch up I'll get some other new things up on the web page!

Since power has been cut to a large portion of where we are and Sera has yet to fix that reactor, the comic will be slightly delayed this week. Until then, we'll be running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and trust me... it's not pretty.

We also have a nice new layout to work with. As with anything, there are probably still some kinks to work out, so if you notice anything out of the ordinary, please let us know. We may need a screenshot of the problem as well. And even if you don't see any problems, tell us what you think about the new look.