Runaway to the Stars: Page 111

Woo woo new chapter! And it features: a resplendently over-rendered zucchini plant. Exactly what you're reading this comic for.

Transcript

Rasheed reaches through the large prickly leaves of a zucchini plant growing in a hydroponics medium to cut off a zucchini fruit with his pruning shears. Talita walks past the door to the administration wing warily as she leaves the recycling plant, watching Idrisah talking to an avian intern who is using a desktop computer. Idrisah doesn't appear to notice Talita.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 111

Woo woo new chapter! And it features: a resplendently over-rendered zucchini plant. Exactly what you're reading this comic for.

Transcript

Rasheed reaches through the large prickly leaves of a zucchini plant growing in a hydroponics medium to cut off a zucchini fruit with his pruning shears. Talita walks past the door to the administration wing warily as she leaves the recycling plant, watching Idrisah talking to an avian intern who is using a desktop computer. Idrisah doesn't appear to notice Talita.

18 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 111

  1. The resplendently over rendered courgette has my entire heart and soul (apologies. not american enough to call it anything other than a courgette. just feels weird). The LEAVES the little SPIKES the FLOWER the FRUIT ough it captures the plant so well…. if this entire comic became loving portraits of vegtables I would be so seated for that honestly that plant is just too gorgeous I gazed at it lovingly for quite a while before I moved onto the rest of the page. And I will gaze at it some more after I post this comment no doubt.
    And another avian outfit!!! I love their fashion.

  2. My goodness, I could look at that zucchini for hours. Any agriculture worldbuilding in RTTS has me rattling the bars of my enclosure

  3. Rasheed the noble warrior fighting the good fight against the spider mites indulges in a great victory: the humble zucchini

  4. When we get our printed copy of this book, and are avidly and enthusiastically subjecting our friends and family to it, this zucchini plant is going to be one of the very first things we make them look at.

    “Look at it! Look at this! LOOK AT THE ZUCCHINI! This is a COMIC!”

    And they will understand.

  5. While growing zucchini in an entirely controlled environment has the obvious benefit of avoiding seasonal gluts, it has unfortunately spelled the end of National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day.

  6. Bear-on-a-tricycle

    I love your resplendently over-rendered zucchini plant! It’s beautiful! If, in between chapters, you just drew a bunch of over-rendered vegetables, both from Earth and other planets, I would definitely be here for that. Artists doing art is always welcome. (And I love the way you art!)

  7. I can SMELL the zucchini plant

  8. Your horticulture background is showing 🙂

  9. ZUCCHINI!?! MY BEST FRIEND COMPACT BUSH-FORM ZUCCHINI!?! IN SPACE?!

  10. its nice to look at a gorgeously rendered plant after the last chapter leaves you thinking about the grim fate of bip’s crew

  11. Can’t wait to find out what especially high-resolution zucchini has to do with this escape heist.

    1. [comic promptly takes an unscheduled detour through a strangely familiar plotline]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to_Nome

  12. that is exactly what squishes look like, wonderful! and it looks like it’s fruiting well

  13. Huh, so that’s what zucchini plants look like

  14. Resplendently over-rendered plants is exactly what I’m hoping for every time I open a new webcomic page 🙂

  15. Honestly, if I didn’t want to see resplendently rendered organisms, who would I be? Fortunately: when a whole chapter is named after something, it’s important to feature the titular eponym!

    ……right?

  16. Using gloves to protect against the fearsome defenses of the zucchini plant… smart. Something I think I’ll do every time and yet somehow every year I end up in there, wrenching the fruit off the stems with my bare hands…

  17. That zucchini plant is marvelous.

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