Can't leave out the OG space mission!

I've been having a lot of fun with this series; I guess the overarching theme is the history of space exploration seen through the hypothetically sentient eyes of the plucky robots who have taught us so much about the universe. (Except sometimes they're ceiling fans.)

 I think it's really awesome how a lot of Chinese dinosaurs get Chinese taxonomic names, and a lot of them include the word long (dragon). Much more fitting than saurus (lizard); dinosaurs were pretty much as close to dragons as the history of life on Earth has ever gotten. 

I just wanted to play around with depicting a Chinese dino as it might appear in one of those historic bestiaries, especially since they often have the names to match. This is Zhenyuanlong, a dromaeosaur from the Yixian Formation.

I've heard speculation that finds of sauropods like Mamenchisaurus might have been what inspired the serpentine physiology of the Chinese dragon. Such a fun idea, and would bring the whole dragon thing full circle.

 Truly a moving sight.

 Stamps definitely won't get you any closer to the Pokémon League. Baseball cards, on the other other hand...

Speaking of, can we talk for a minute about the Pokémon TCG and the controversy surrounding all the card scalping that's been going on over the past few years? 

 I'm not actually sure how funny this is; it's just that every time I see the Mariner 4 spacecraft, all I can think is that it looks like a ceiling fan. 

And then I want an actual ceiling fan shaped like Mariner 4.

(Maybe there's one on Etsy.)

 I drew this to commemorate some... sort of milestone when Trainer Wants to Battle! had its original run. Unfortunately I completely forget what that milestone was. Some number of readers reached or something? Anyway. I still think this turned out pretty cute. This was Red's party at the time of making the illustration. I was going for quality, not quantity.

 I feel like the Scientists in Kanto are extremely shady. First they're messing around with the questionable practice of bringing back extinct taxa, and then one of them just hands a valuable museum specimen to the first 10-year-old to walk in the back door. Sounds like some under-the-table research to me.

Or, y'know, it's just a video game and I'm way overthinking it again.