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

submitted 3 weeks ago by Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/scifi@midwest.social

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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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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had never heard of it, but this is awesome! I really really like it so far. Thank you very much for exposing me to it!

The world building lore chapters are amazing.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m glad you like it! It’s probably my favorite indie sci fi comic, I think it deserves a lot more recognition.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aww man! I hoped I was jumping into a years long project with a thousand pages. I'm already caught up and I've read many of the comments. Off to the world building sections.