The new TAS comic "Home is Not a Place" is now online. I hope you enjoy it, and look forward to your comments.

http://startrekanimated.com/exetercomic.html

I happened across the latest installment before seeing your announcement of it here, and was quite surprised. Nice crossover!

No nits, but some observations:
The title had me curious; I liked how it came about in relation to the story.
Interesting backgrounds, namely the architecture, which seemed familiar to me. (I'm too tired as I type this to figure out exactly what architectural influences are there.)
On page 19 (I think it was 19... at any rate, the captain is running out of his quarters), a female human is seen in the corridor. Hasn't she appeared in previous issues? If so, is she based upon a real person? (Heck, even if not, is she based upon a real person?)
I like the freighter design, and the re-use of the modular cargo containers.

Looking forward to the continuing stories...

Thanks CR, glad you liked it.

The female human you refer to is my wife! She loves to be included. (/:-)

Raul does a great job on the ships.

I loved seeing the Enterprise's warp naecelles in the windows. It reminded me of STTMP-Director's Cut. It was good seeing M'Ress & Mr. Arex play a pivotal role in this episode.

On page 3, panel 2, McCoy's delta insignia is much larger than Spock's, who is standing next to the doctor.

I suppose this is on purpose, but the bridge to the Exeter appears to be oriented differently from the one on the Enterprise. The turbo-lift is directly behind the command chair. No other Constitution-Class starship has that layout that we ever saw in the series. (Page 10, panel 2)

Does the Exeter have two turbo-lifts on the bridge? On page 12, panel two we can see the door to a turbo-lift on the left-hand side of the command chair (where it was for all other Constitution-Class ships).

Panel 4 of page 12 shows the lift to be behind Harris again.

I love the details of the console panel in panel 5, page 12.

The communications panel on panel 2 of page 23 also has some great details. Very nice.

Page 24, panel 3 shows the door to the turbo-lift to be on Garrovick's left.

Just exactly how would waste dumped into the Caitian sun cause a plague? How'd the Gorn get close enough to dump the waste into the sun? Did they shoot it into the sun? Whatever the Gorn were dumping into it should have been negligible. If it wasn't, then surely a Caitian astronomer might have observed some unexplained disturbance with the sun.

Garrovick went from saying the waste dumped into the sun could have caused the Caitian plague to outright saying it did. Based on what? Why didn't the Caitian doctors figure this out themselves, btw?

Page 29, panel two and three have the turbo-lift to Garrovick's left again.

Does the Exeter's dedication plaque say anything? I know it has words on it, I just can't make them out.

The star on Kirk's insignia is much bigger than it should be. It takes up too much space on the delta.

Once again, Kail, another great tale. I look forward to Kirk's tale.

Live long and prosper.

Benn, It's a cartoon.

I must add I REALLY liked M'Ress in the micro-miniskirt! MEOW!

Benn, It's a cartoon.

Kail, this is a nitpicking site. No harm intended. And it certainly doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the 'toon.

Live long and prosper.

Benn, No offense taken. It's not perfect, but I try my best. Glad you liked it.

So, what does the Exeter's dedication plaque read? Or should we check out the Starship Exeter website? (For those who've never been there, it's worth the visit!)

The female human you refer to is my wife! She loves to be included. --Kail
That explains why she's around so much. Do you also include any other relatives or friends in the stories? (Or yourself?)

The Exeter dedication plaque reads, at least in my comic,
USS EXETER
kjahdiu ouifbn
msgetbdn idjhe
whabndm yahgsdb

Or something like that. Just nonsense.

My wife has been in the background somewhere in most of the comics, my writing partner Kelso played Asrod, and I was Ulic in "Heads of the Hydrae". Plus people who have bought TAS portraits from me have all been extras. That's about it.

Translation of: kjahdiu / ouifbn / msgetbdn / idjhe / whabndm / yahgsdb:

"From the first moment I met you...."

Exeter Captain: ABANDON SHIP!

So how about the planet Cait? It reminds me of one of those astronomy pics hypothesizing what Mars would look like if it had oceans.

Another brilliant effort! I particularly liked the design of the Gorn ships, the Federation freighter (a nice compromise between Enterprise and TOS) and the look of the planet. The different looks for the Caitians were well done considering M'Ress was the only one we ever saw on TAS.

I suppose this is more of a question for the creators of 'Exeter' but are Garrovick's first and middle name a tribute to a certain captain of the NSEA Protector?

I'm particularly intrigued by the lead-up for the next tale...will you be basing George Samuel Kirk on the Diane Carey version from "Final Frontier"?

I saw that a new online comic is up, and was anticipating the continuation of this one (remember, "To be conitnued...").
What a surprise that the new one was instead a "Special Issue" that has a few surpises of its own. (Will you be starting a new board for it? When it's up, I'll post my comments for the special over there.)
Looking forward to the next regular issue!

Oh, that was good...
The word "conitnued" was obviously supposed to be "continued", though I find it ironic that my typo contains the word "nit" in it.

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