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 famous 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!

 After that last comic, I of course had to draw the follow-up--the spectacular landing of the Huygens craft on Titan! This was such an incredible achievement as the first landing in the outer Solar System. I'm just kinda bummed out that I missed it when it was happening because I was in high school at the time, and too busy with terrible friendships and pretending like video games solved everything to pay adequate attention to really awesome stuff like this.

But at least I can re-live the excitement vicariously through my buddy Chris Lintott, who was at ESA headquarters reporting on the landing for The Sky at Night and adorably lost all composure when the signal started coming through. Journalism at its finest.

 I always thought it was kind of weird that Blue was hanging around Pokémon Tower trying to find a Marowak (which don't even appear in Pokémon Tower), when he should have been focusing on leveling up his Cubone. But maybe Blue didn't read the Nintendo Power Player's Guide obsessively like I did.

 There's some fantastic NPC dialogue in the Pokémon games. Like this creepy little girl in Lavender Town. Who gave me a great excuse to throw in Zombie Lass again.

 My mom requested this one, and honestly it's such a great anecdote from the Voyager mission that I just had to. Voyager 1 was specifically directed toward Titan (which would put it on a trajectory that would not allow it to continue to Uranus and Neptune) because it was known at the time that Titan had a thick atmosphere, and astronomers were really curious about what the surface looked like.

Well, turns out Titan has a thick, opaque atmosphere, so we got lots of great pictures of a fuzzy, featureless orange ball. Oops. (Thankfully Voyager 2 made it to Uranus and Neptune, and Cassini-Huygens came back later with radar and a cute little lander to give us a proper look at the surface.)