No story with this one. My apologies there. But this one is quite nostalgic, as it turns out, and there's a bit of trivia about my childhood to be found here.

When I was young, we're talking around 5 or so, I was obsessed with space. I wanted to grow up to be an astronaut, and I even had planets painted on my bedroom walls. My mom even helped me make a cardboard cut-out of the space shuttle that we attached to the back of a chair. I loved space.

As a result, I also loved space adventures, and I was especially drawn, at that tender young age, to 1950's era space adventure. I saw Forbidden Planet and Buck Rogers before I was old enough to know just what I was seeing. But it left an impression that turned me into the geek I am today.

Back then, laying on the floor in my footie PJs (my spacesuit!) with my legs up on the seat of a chair, a Commodore joystick in my hand, I was waiting for blast off. The backyard was an alien planet, and the neighbor's tree house was a space station. One of my grandpa's old hardhats covered in foil was a helmet, and a toy raygun was a deadly disintegrator.

This is my homage to those days. Back when a little girl could be a hero. Like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

I saved the Earth, ya know.

Characters & art © Antique Submarine