[572]Terror Castle of the Jupiter Moon Martians

Ooh! An elbow right to the face!

Melodrama has its drawbacks.

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Even for "spacemonauts".

Huzzah! A new chapter- and it's a doozy too.

Yes.

Same kind of gag as Ch 10 when Dr. Disaster says "from their moon base... on the moon!"

All I can say to this title page is: holy freaking hell crap yes awesome

FROM SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!

Emigration? Maybe their insurance premiums on mars got too high after their death ray was vandalised by a bunch of unruly school children?

Yesss! It was totally worth waiting two weeks.

I've had my concerns in the past about a second Dr. Disaster chapter; I was afraid that it would be almost impossible to keep it from feeling repetitive. Tom had provided an element of seriousness in the first story by tying it in to Annie's overly solemn disposition, but she's learned now not to be so stuffy about these things. And mere good-natured skewering of all the bad science and cliches of 1950's sci-fi movies wouldn't be enough for a second story without it feeling like a more pallid sequel (although it might provide Tom the opportunity to parody the phenomenon of the sequel being weaker than the original story).

The title page suggests a solution, though, with Annie's teammates this time around being Parley and Smith rather than her regular classmates; that should provide some variety. I suspect that the main thing that Annie will learn around them is that you don't learn much when Parley's around - especially when Smith's also around for her to hassle. I'll be amazed if Parley lets Dr. Disaster get in even a few words of instruction to the spacemonauts.

EDIT: After taking a second look at the page, it seems from the "alien tribes in conflict" part that this will be part of medium training (Annie, Parley, and Smith having to provide a peaceful solution to an interplanetary war), which further allays my worries that it would feel like a repeat. (Though I suspect that if Parley isn't careful, she'd wind up having the alien tribes drop their war so that they can unite against *her*.)

I am pleased by this.

I'd bet they have arms but no legs.


And is Annie scoping Andrew at the top there? Yes, she definitely is.

I need a translation from City Facese into English.

I was just thinking about how awesome it would be to have full movie-poster size prints of both the Spacemonauts posters flanking my monitor over my desk...

Well I, for one, welcome our terrible, ineffectual overlord(s).