Current Obsession: Speed Racer

Racer X, unknown to the Racer family, is Speed's older brother Rex. Rex left years ago when he was only 18…

More Speed Racer doodles cause the autism is here✨

And also more doodles of my “ Bluetooth”au where the racer are psychicly linked to their cars and need cybernetic augmentation in order to drive them.

and I think this serves to make the setting feel familiar and welcoming even to a first time listener. its not scifi with a high bar for entry. we don't need to hear about what the solar government actually looks like or does outside of Dark Matters' hazy authority, all we need is this steady and comprehensible ground for all the little details and actually off the wall stuff that makes juno steel's galaxy truly unique and memorable to spring off of.

this is also a galaxy where even the stun setting on a blaster has a very tiny chance of killing someone with a heart condition, and campy scifi names like "mick mercury" are mixed in with a noticeably high number of japanese and russian inspired names. real world situations of healthcare monopolies and employment schemes taking advantage of refugees who don't speak the language are mixed together to create the blood filtration slavery system that is so influential on the plot. The general lack of aliens makes the reveal of Ruby and the Curemother Prime all the cooler and stranger in contrast, and it enables s1's slow reveal of just how alien the ancient martians truly were--shapeshifting, telepathic, asexually reproducing--and then the punch that they died from an incredibly human sentiment that mirrors what our human protagonist has been going through this whole time. The Hanataba clinics, the Guardian Angel System, all the different fucked up prisons... all fleshing out a galaxy that at first glance can seem a touch cliche