That's the most nudity (actually, near-nudity) you will probably ever see in this comic. Hopefully, it won't be seen as titillation or gratitious---actually, I'm thinking of that section in Olaf Stapledon's ODD JOHN where he divorced himself from humanity to find who he was, in relationship to humankind...to reinvent himself. And it will be interesting to see her fight without her gadgets and technology...mechanical technology, anyway..

She won't be clothed in the next few pages, but she will be covered. You'll see.

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REMAN MYTHOLOGY---beautiful black-and-white art, fantastic fantasy.

Here I'm reviewing Station V3...and this is a case where the sum total far exceeds the individual parts.

It's website is fine, very functional. The bonus strips are great, and show how you think of your readers, always a plus.

Shading would also be good. Crosshatching or shades of gray digitally, either one, to give the characters depth. They look painfully two-dimensional. Look at RUGG, and how well his characters are developed visually. Again, I'm not talking a LOT of detail. Just a little, though, would make a BIG difference.

The artwork: Welllllll....my first impressions were minimalist to crudely bad at first. Sorry. The cook looks like a giant ghost, for instance, in most shots, not an octopoid alien. (The floating character drifting in and out sort of reinforced that ghostly feeling...) If his tentacles would come out to gesture more, it would help...the plant is a mere sillouette, nothing more...

A comparison: PEANUTS' early strips were very simple, but the style evolved in time, without going to realism. You saw Schultz' stretching, evoking more and more his unique style. I don't really see that with Floyd, Mr. Maintenance Engineer, etc. Visually, they are the same as when they started. IF these are templates you're reusing again and again, perhaps you should add some detail to them. If they're handdrawn each time, just a little detail (not much). Maybe a line or two on Floyd to indicate the patterns in his machinery. Ditto for the station itself.

But the backgrounds are slowly developing, over time...and I love the once-a-week color strips. Color helps this a LOT. But I'm not suggesting color every day, because as you'll see, I think that would hurt what I think is this strip's greatest strength.

The humor at first was just so-so, but you slowly built on that, and many of the strips are genuinenly funny, although none of them caused a bellylaugh...you have a gift for develping and repeating themes, like the two froglike aliens who keep on telling us what a nice (whatever) they're taking over...

Or the alternative-universe popping in every so often...

Or the teleporter that doesn't QUITE reach the planet's surface...

It's funny. NONE of the individual strips are laugh-out-loud, although you definitely have comic timing down pat, how to deliver a punchline, when to let the characters give the reader an ironic look--- but the characters, for all their minimalism--- become engaging and endearing. The daily updates help IMMENSELY.

And in fact, that is this strip's greatest strength. So any suggestions I make, if they stop your daily updates, don't do it, okay? You have a real gift for creating a humorous theme and doing various riffs on it. Relatively few cartoonists have that. A once-a-week Station V3 would fall flat on its face.

I would work a little on the art. Try to give the aliens more texture...a suggestion of scales on one, an indication of rubbery skin on the other. Ditto the backgrounds, which have definitely shown SOME improvement over time, moreso than the characters. You rarely have three-quarter views of characters, usually just side or straight on. Work on that. A few additional lines on the machinery---the station, the shuttle, Floyd. I don't want Kirbyesque monstrous machines, but something a little more detailed would be nice.

I've read this occasionally before, was amused but not impressed, and didn't return. My loss. It's a really good strip. But if you work on your cartooning style, you'll grab more readers the first time, and they'll stick around more. Once someone becomes a regular reader here, I bet they're hooked. The trick is to make the strip---not the website, the strip itself-- more attractive at first...

I make NO suggestions on the storylines. You obviously know what you're doing there.

I enjoyed this at the end much more than I thought I would. It reminds me of SCHLOCK MERCENARY (Which also has simplistic art, although the aliens are a little more developed than here). Each of your characters are individuals, no small feat---even the plant.

Yes. Definitely a comic where the sum total is waaaay more than the individual parts.