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Those of you who know of Vaughn Bode's work from the 60's should recognize the spaceship from Sunpot. It was a short-lived strip in Galaxy magazine. It ended sumwhat abuptly after a few episodes when Bode had a gas or radiation leak wipe out the entire crew, so that there was nothing to see but the bodies floating in zero gee. Apparently he threatened to do that every subsequent episode if he was held to his contract. Weird. In any event, I drew this for some reason, showing my character Saara Mar stepping into a panel, and metaphorically into the Bode universe. After so much time I'm not sure I can say why she'd have wanted to. Maybe I just wantd an excuse to draw the spaceship, which did look cool.
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I just happened to pick up some Galaxy back issues a few years after the event. I thought Bode's art was cute, but naturally I couldn't make head or tail of the story. I have to admit that growing up in suburban England didn't exactly make me receptive to 60s counterculture, or at least the more out-there aspects of it. I don't own a single Frank Zappa album, for instance.
VB really was a master of sillytech, wasn't he? Maybe Saara wanted to get a closer look, as would anyone confronted with such an absurd object. Morbid curiosity*?
I'm sure he would have made the repeated mass death of the Sunpot's crew an interesting spectacle if he'd been kept at it. The Dark Side was never far from his work.
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*Learning something new alla time - I've been spelling it "curiousity" all along and now my new web browser's spellchecker says it doesn't have that second "u" - looked it up in a dictionary just now and it's right.
I'm sure he would have made the repeated mass death of the Sunpot's crew an interesting spectacle if he'd been kept at it. The Dark Side was never far from his work.
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*Learning something new alla time - I've been spelling it "curiousity" all along and now my new web browser's spellchecker says it doesn't have that second "u" - looked it up in a dictionary just now and it's right.
He was pretty damned good up until he became *really* successful. When bode began appearing in that slick skin magazine (not Playboy, the other one), he locked into doing Cheech Wizard, and inevitably the material grew stale. Maybe he would have changed direction at some point, but he didn't live long enough for us to find out.
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