After that Viking comic, my thoughts turned to the "Face on Mars" and what could really have been responsible for it. :)

 I love this one because it's so fun drawing people freaking out. (FYI, this is a different Lass from Zombie Lass.)

They say they got stuck at the gates, but they don't explain why. Could be a thirsty guard. Could be that gates are just really scary. I mean, they temporarily make the screen blank out, for crying out loud! For all you know they could be dimensional portals to the netherworld!

#overthinkingeverythingagain

 I'm not quite sure how these things happen. One day I'm just sitting around thinking about Tiktaalik and how cute it is, and the next thing I know, this pops into my head and I have to draw it.

Well, I think the Internet needs more sarcopterygian fan art.

 More costume design for Ravenscrag. Tam wears her clothes from Earth throughout her journey to unseal the Erdunn, but at the end of the story, she spends some time at Castle Ravenscrag and Melly (the resident giant spider seamstress) makes her lots of new clothes. Melly crafted mostly elegant gowns for bookish and intellectual Carrie who spends much of her time studying magic with Saturos, reading, and playing the harpsichord, but I imagine the more athletic and tomboyish Tam would need attire better suited to romping around the woods and using Smaragdus to fuse crystal armor onto herself.

 I feel like the two things everyone remembers most about the Viking missions are a) the controversial results of the life-detection experiments and b) the "face on Mars" incident caused by Viking 1 just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time for probably the most infamous case of pareidolia ever. Chris Lintott already made a joke about the first one, but the second one was still up for grabs!

 Costume design for Ravenscrag, which I just can't stop doodling things for. Not sure when I'll ever publish it, but I sure had fun writing it.

This is Carrie's outfit when she and Saturos go to a northerly locale for Important Sorcerer Business. (Castle Ravenscrag is located in the mid-latitudes of its planet's southern hemisphere, FYI.) I based that setting off the island of Svalbard, which is an incredible, beautiful place that I'd probably only ever visit if I made sure I got a really, really warm hotel room. But the landscapes are stunning.

 Well, gambling can be life-threatening (and life-destroying). Honestly I'm glad they got rid of the whole Game Corner thing after a few generations.

Pokémon is okay though!