Skin of Evil • 5 March 2006

Tasha Yar fell in some tar/Couldn't get out because she had no car

Over the past two months I've forgotten why I drew this exactly, but it was done during D&D. Tasha Yar died early in the course of Star Trek: The Next Generation by being dragged into the muck of a tar monster named Armus in the episode "Skin of Evil."

I gave this piece to Felicity because she harbors such an anti-Yar sentiment that the veins in her head start throbbing whenever the character is on screen. I think I also killed my 90% grey marker on this.

Cement Trucks Are Awesome • 10 March 2006

We went to Big Boy, where Mythbusters came up, in particular the episode where they blew up a cement truck. This was a good episode because what can be cooler than essentially vaporizing a cement truck with 850 pounds of dynamite? There isn't much, I assure you.

The starship Enterprise may have been the actual cause, not the dynamite.

Sci-Fi Nerd-Off • 10 March 2006

The Death Star must get such a horrible headache every time it fires its superlaser. The Death Apple is a contemporary battle station whose concept never really took off.

In the lower left there's a total nerd-off going on as a Star Destroyer, Enterprise-D, Babylon 5, and Battlestar Galactica all fire on one another for supremacy of the genre.

Also happening is a Borg implant punching through Picard's face and there's a butt in the top corner.

seaQuest DSV • 10 March 2006

I think that seaQuest DSV is a bit of an underrated show nowadays. I rather like it, and this Big Boy placemat shows my appreciation for the series. seaQuest herself is front and center, surrounded by Captain Bridger and his opening narration, the sub's auxiliary vehicles (WSKR probes, undersea cab, Stinger, VR probe), and Lucas talking to Darwin through the translation computer.

Felicity is A-Okay! • 12 March 2006

The Commie Land cast thinks Stalin's sucking up to get on Felicity's good side. After all, if she wins the upcoming election with her "free will is overrated" platform, then only those who made a good impression early on will have a say in their own lives as an extreme case of cronyism spreads over the nation. This was also drawn on a Big Boy placemat, since Big Boy is where all important matters of state are discussed.

Eye Legs • 18 March 2006

I did this one over dinner at Rudy's with the D&D crew. Not sure what the inspiration was, save to do something creepy for the meal. Katy countered with a traumatic drawing of a muffin (this time there was only the one).

Jeff Gets His Block Knocked Off • 18 March 2006

Drawn right after that same dinner, this is a Jeff Gets Hurt without a series to fit it into yet. I know that purists will point out that the robot is inaccurate, but I didn't care that much.

But seriously, what's important here is whose idea was it to make hula hoops the number one toy?

SNAKES ON A PLANE • 31 March 2006

Snakes on a Plane is, without a doubt, the single most important movie of 2006. I drew this for the Gopher Gathering's April Fools scheme, which was based on the film. This was a coloring activity that everybody was encouraged to take part in but nobody did.

Flat out, there ain't nothin' you can do about snakes on a plane.

Bastille Day • 26 March 2006

This is my first depiction of the new Battlestar Galactica series, which is my favorite show on television right now.

This particular sequence comes from episode three, "Bastille Day." Here, Dr. Baltar, tasked to build a Cylon detector, is threatened by Number Six, the Cylon inside his head. If he can't acquire a nuclear warhead for the task, then his role in the annihilation of mankind would be sussed out and he would suffer a pretty bad fate.

He is an Englishman • 11 April 2006

On 11 April I finally got the chance to see Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore performed live, something I had been waiting some seven years for. What's more, I was granted the pleasure of Felicity's company to the show, which I thought was done very well, save for one or two small parts, but they didn't detract from the whole.

"For he is an Englishman" is a popular song from the show, sung by Boatswain's Mate Bill Bobstay with a patriotic fervor in order to exonerate Able Seaman Ralph Rackstraw, who has just found himself in hot water with Captain Corcoran. Rackstaw calls himself an Englishman, something that Bobstay feels is just cause to prove his innocence in any situation.

Girl With Balloon II • 9 April 2006

Again at Big Boy! Felicity began drawing on her placement, so I tried to copy her, line for line, in different colors. We each considered our own drawing the better of the two, so I set up a poll to test this. Over the course of two weeks, thirty votes were cast. My drawing won fifteen votes, and her drawing won fifteen. I guess this means that neither drawing is better, and that we are, in fact, rather equal.

I would still win in a fight though.