Purists may notice that we’ve mixed up our Stargate franchises a little in this strip. We’ve drawn a stargate from the Milky Way galaxy – as it’s arguably the most iconic, and the most interesting to draw – but included[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There seems to be something inherent in human nature that makes us want to collect things. Whether it’s stamps, cigarette cards or autographs, our urge to catalogue and store individual items as part of a collection is a trait that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The notion that the ancient gods were actually alien visitors to Earth was largely popularised by the books of Erich Von Däniken in the 1970s, and has become a staple of the science fiction genre ever since. Perhaps the most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a time when computer hardware and boxed software came with manuals. Not a ‘Quick Start Guide’ or a ‘Getting Started Guide’, but a proper, thick, tree-destroying hulk of a manual. Finding software in a large box wasn’t simply[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the last strip of Season 3, which has added another 28 comics to The Greys, and brought the total so far to 85 strips! Roll on our centenary, halfway through Season 4… Much has been written about George[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our first comic of Season 4 we felt it was about time that we tackled a staple of TV and cinema sci-fi: the corridor. We’re big corridor fans, which may seem like an odd thing to say, but a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If there’s one thing that Star Trek likes to do, it’s stereotype its races. The Ferengi are all money loving, the Vulcans live purely by logic and the Klingons are all warmongers. Do the Ferengi really never do anything unless[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Greys may seem to have done a good job in reducing their unemployment levels to virtually zero, but what they don’t like to advertise is that they’ve done it “Logan’s Run” style – by killing off the population when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip was, of course, inspired by the recent release of the film ‘Battleship‘ – based on the board game of the same name! But with added aliens. Yes, really. On the whole Hollywood isn’t exactly known for its originality,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
23rd June 2012 was the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, whose genius played a vital part in the wartime code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park, and whose pioneering work on computers helped to lay the foundations for the technology[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…