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[Comic] Runaway to the Stars (www.runawaytothestars.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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Anyone else read this? It’s an ongoing comic (<200 pages currently) set in the moderately distant future, post (multiple) alien contact, people living in space, genetic mods are common, that sort of thing. The protagonist is an alien centaur that was fostered by humans and has never lived around her own species, and it follows her and her friends’ encounters with a ship’s AI pilot of questionable origin trying to get help repairing itself.

I’ve been following the artist for a while as they developed this, first on Twitter before it went bad and later on Bluesky (they’re also on Mastodon). They’ve been doing a lot of fun speculative biology and world building for it, and I’m also really into the art style and character design.

If you’re interested in the world building aspect of it (I think it’s really neat!) you can check out the worldbuilding directory they put together, with info about each species, planets, etc.

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[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Been following Jay for a few years now - he used to lurk the Worldbuilding community over on Reddit, so I ran into him a few times back before I migrated to Lemmy. Runaway is some really fantastic stuff, and the sheer effort of depth put into minor details of the world make it stand out. (Seriously, check for the small details of how the characters emote - it's fascinating.)

At this point I only wish more of it would come out faster, but again given the sheer attention to detail and quality of art, I'm just delighted to have it at all!

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Same on the wanting more of it faster front! One look at the detail on each panel shows why it takes so long, but it’s absolutely something I could sit and devour in one sitting.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Right? I try to stay away from it so a few unread pages can build up and I can devour them all at once, but I never manage to stay away for long...