Because of it’s adaptability to extreme environments the thognart has been a favorite mode of transportation for several races on several planets for thousands of years. Originally from Nodgun 3, it spread to hundreds of planets by space colonizers and galactic merchants. It’s particularly high stance gives the rider an improved vantage point resulting in superior situational awareness. The large hump on it’s back stores energy for weeks at a time making the thognart effective in environments where food is scarce. Still, the care and feeding of a herd of thognarts is an art, and was ultimately an enterprise that proved inefficient for the needs of the GSA. After initially trying to use thognarts for scouting missions the GSA replaced them with a mechanical alternative. Here Missile Mouse wonders how the thing feeds itself.

I drew this one shortly after I drew the other Otter Racer, but never got around to posting it.

Otter Racer II is loosely inspired by this ride designed and built by Webb Automotive Art, which in turn was inspired by the Golden Submarine.

As promised here are some pages from the Missile Mouse graphic novel. The first one is page number one of the book and I’ve already colored it. This was actually one of the fully finished pages I put in my book proposal for the publisher. Here we join Missile Mouse on an expedition searching for a downed transport ship. He’s followed by two hired porters who are a little more familiar with the area than he is. In the foreground is the bones and toothy skull of some long dead beast, foreshadowing that danger is ahead for MM.

The rest of these are a few random pages from the book that I like. While flipping through the pages I couldn’t decide which to share, there’s so many of them I like. I finally narrowed it down to these. This page was a lot of fun to draw. A while back I posted concept designs for this alien slug monster . You can see those here, and below is what made it into the book:

I had to have MM get eaten by this guy. What good is it having a space slug if you don’t put any one in him?

And lastly a nice shot of MM demonstrating how to use the Jet Pack in close quarters. Panel 5 was a bit of a chore to figure out, but all in all fun to draw.

I’ll post a few more in the coming weeks.

Missile Mouse stops to check his six while out hunting down an escape monster from the Galactic Security Agency’s maximum security prison. He’s riding the TK-3, a bipedal scout runner perfect for the rocky terrain in which he’s hunting. The agency once kept a herd of thognarts for assignments like these, but the care and feeding of them proved to be too costly. And their temperament made some situations dangerous. So the GSA switched over to a mechanical alternative.

This was a recent commission I did for a Missile Mouse fan out in the UK. Glad it made it to you safe!  If you want your own piece of original MM art go here.

I finished inking the last page of the Missile Mouse graphic novel at 10:43 pm last night. What a satisfying feeling that was. It clocks in at 172 pages and has been quite the beast to draw.  I ink on some nice paper I found at a paper store in Stamford Connecticut.  It is heavy stock and extremely smooth.  Takes the ink well.  I think it’s made for laser printers, but it’s perfect for inking comics.  Best part is it’s about 30 bucks for 250 sheets of 11×17.  I’ll post some scans of a few of my favorite pages next week.