Girls in Space

Two stories in the bag.  Air punch!  Yes, folks, this is the concluding page of Push the Button.  I can hardly believe we’ve reached this point already!

So now that the story is complete, it is as good a time as any to reflect upon it.  Push the Button ended up being something of a Frankenstein story in the sense that it was made up from various elements sewed together.  The first part of the story involved a lot of housekeeping, establishing where the characters lived and what they intended to do following the events of The Prototype.  Then once all of that had been taken care of, two separate plotlines developed.  The spacegirls went on a taxi mission in the bus, and Zoe attempted to get a job to fund her spaceship detector project.

If I’m honest, most of this story was pulled together from ideas I had had in my notepad for some time.  Zoe’s story was essentially a handful of standalone comic scenarios in which she gets fired.  Several of her pages were originally intended as Dr Sheep and the Aardvark strips but I never got a chance to use them.  On the other hand, the spacegirls’ story was mostly written two years ago when Girls in Space was brain-pooped into the world (technical term).  At that time I knew I wanted to write about two girls flying around the universe in a VW Camper Van and I wrote a few pages of the hippo storyline to explore the characters and concept.  Therefore, most of the new writing in this story involved me linking together all the pre-written elements.  It was a challenge to turn it all into a (hopefully) coherent story.  I hope you enjoyed it and didn’t feel it was too disjointed.

So, this story is over, what now?  Well good news, compadres, the next story is loaded up and ready to begin!  Come back on Thursday to see the cover and title.  The story itself begins this time next week.  It’s another 34 page story, which means that it should take us through to Christmas!   Terrifying!

Thank you so much for reading Push the Button.