Too School for Cool

Jupiter gets some appreciation for all he does for the Solar System.

A little story time for this comic: so this was originally going to be Jupiter prompting Saturn to read about his (Saturn's) chapter in The Story of the Heavens (by Sir Robert S. Ball; beautiful prose - read it!) to help him feel better about himself, but I kinda already did that with Saturn and Uranus. So then I decided to make it about Jupiter, since I haven't really done a comic about him before and he deserves some recognition for all the good he does for everyone else.

Thank you for the ask, Anon!

I would give you a hint/preview, but I'm not sure what it's going to be yet, haha.

I have about five different very loose ideas for comics any given week and I excel at waiting until the last possible minute to pick one and flesh it out into an actual working concept.

Awww, really? That's so sweet to hear; thank you for telling me, Anon!

Thanks for the ask and thank you for re-reading my comic! :D

I'm excited that a Chrysalis arc has been confirmed and am super curious as to the direction they're going to take it (and the tone they're going to use). Are they going to go for a more science-based explanation or a more fictional explanation (or a mix of the two?). Will it be more Chrysalis-focused or more Saturn-focused? Will it be told from the perspective of another moon (probably Titan)?

Also, I'm wondering what "short" means for an arc length. Two episodes? Three? I think most non-major arcs have had similar lengths. I'll be interested in seeing how they can fit in the story itself, Saturn's reaction (and/or other moons' reactions), and any sort of resolution in that length. But maybe it'll be a bit longer than that, who knows.

Someone made an edit of Mario Odyssey with it and another person made one with Avengers: Endgame (though they had to cut out some parts of the battle to fit the song's length and repeat a part of the song to fit with the battle)

Do you think it's possible to do the same with today's newest Solarballs episode?

Thanks for the ask and sorry for taking so long to reply!

Yes, I bet it would be possible! I haven't seen either of the edits you mentioned, but in my head I'm seeing the edit switch between scenes of the Sun confronting/battling the rogues and scenes of the planets (at first) being unaware of the Sun and just heading out into space in their various directions, kind of like how the sequence in Shrek 2 cuts between scenes of Shrek battling and scenes of Princess Fiona and Prince Charming dancing.

It'd be interesting to see where the edit would end. I kind of like the idea of it ending with Mercury crying out "Suuuuuun!" and rushing toward the star at the same point where Shrek yells "STOP!" in the original sequence. That cuts out the dwarfs' reaction and isn't quite at the end of the "battle" really (though there's not really any fighting after that if my memory serves me right), but it'd be a cool little end to the sequence.

Thanks for the ask! (And sorry it took me so long to respond!)

I think it might depend on a few things:

In the fourth (and final?) installment in the "Small Moon Club" series, Phobos and Deimos finally figure out a way to organize the non-spherical moons and make sure everyone gets heard.

This isn't really a series series since I tried to make each comic stand on its own and thus reading the previous comics isn't necessary to understand each one, but there are four that kind of go together with this theme. So in case anyone's curious what the first three "parts" are:

Comic 1

Comic 2

I'd like to make a review/response post for this most recent arc that just concluded, but I think I want to re-watch the whole thing first.

(Mild spoilers below)

Neptune runs into Ceres out in the Kuiper Belt and realizes that the two of them have a lot in common when it comes to being isolated.

The idea of a Neptune and Ceres comic comes from @fuyumi-himura-best!

After my post about the other painted asteroids that Neptune made, I thought it'd be a cool idea to incorporate those into this comic as a way for Neptune to offer Ceres some companionship (sorta).

Thank you for the ask and idea!

Ooh, I like it! I think I've had Neptune shapeshift once before (and it was pretty tame; he just sort of became a blob, haha), so having him utilize that ability to entertain his moons would be a fun thing to build a comic around.

Aww, thank you!😊

As far as taking requests, the answer is...kinda.

I probably won't do anything that's a super specific request as I like to be able to put my own personal spin on a given scenario/interaction and I like to have the actual "story" of the comic come from me (if that make sense, haha).

However, if someone has a general character interaction or scenario that they'd like to propose and it's something I feel meshes with the style and tone of my comics (not too dark, kinda fun/cute/wholesome, possibly silly), then I'd be happy to take the request!

[As examples, two requests I've gotten are 1) Phobos and Deimos starting a club for the smaller moons...this actually turned into several comics, haha; and 2) a comic about Earth and Uranus interacting (I haven't gotten to this one yet, but I will, I promise!)]

If you do request something and I go "yeah I'll do it" but then you don't see it happen for like three months, that just means I haven't found an interpretation that "clicks" yet. It'll be on my list, though, so don't worry!

Jupiter realizes he hasn't been spending much time with his non-spherical moons, so he tries to remedy that in a very Jupiter way: by doing some science with them!