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50 Comics Strips Old!
We made it to fifty. Wow, am I tired.
Thanks to all of you who read Space Base 8, and welcome to anyone who is here for the first time. I hope you enjoy the silly universe inhabited by Cargo, Meela, Lighthouse and the rest, and I really hope you will return often to check in with them. There is oh, so much more to come.
Thanks to my friends, family and fans for the encouragement you have all given me. Please, oh, please come back for the next fifty strips. I promise to do my best to make it worth your while!
David Scott Smith
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Five times a week is tooooo much! I can’t keep up! This comic strip has proven to be too much work for me to handle! So starting today, Space Base 8 will update three times weekly, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Friday will continue to be a double size color strip.
The decision to change was difficult but necessary. I hope to come back to five times a week when I get faster at this comic strip thing. Let me know what you think about the change.
Thanks for reading my comic!
David Scott Smith
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Five times a week is tooooo much! I can’t keep up! This comic strip has proven to be too much work for me to handle! So starting August 24, 2009, Space Base 8 will update three times weekly, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Friday will continue to be a double size color strip.
The decision to change was difficult but necessary. I hope to come back to five times a week when I get faster at this comic strip thing. Let me know what you think about the change.
Thanks for reading my comic!
David Scott Smith
Fifty years ago this last May, the world saw the beginning of the Grand Tradition of Space Monkeys. Well, more correctly, this is when the world saw the beginning of the Grand Tradition of Space Monkeys Who Came Home Safely. Â On May 28, 1959, Able and Miss Baker, Space Monkeys, were rocketed into space and returned rather unharmed from a 15 minute flight. They were the first primates to survive spaceflight, and what a pair of heroes they were! I imagine they got a ticker tape parade.
Ten years earlier, a monkey named Albert II had a less fortunate rocket ride. He was the first living Space Monkey, but he didn’t survive the return trip. I suppose Albert’s story is what makes Cargo so nervous every time he clocks in for work.
NationalGeographic.com published a nifty set of photos called “Space Monkey Pictures: 50- Year Anniversary”. Check it out for an overview of the Grand Tradition that continues here at Space Base 8!
Space Monkeys are just inherently funny. No two ways about it. So are Robot Chickens. Put ‘em all together, and you have a TV show called Robot Chicken that makes a segment about Space Monkeys. Told you they were funny.
Well, Mr. Botto, on this, your first day on the job, why don’t you go ahead and load the dishwasher for us?
Just put it in there.
No need to be so careful, just a plastic cup, it’s not gonna break…
Just put it in.
Put it in there.
Just… PUT IT IN! IN! IN!!
Oh thank goodness.
You are fired.
You may not know that Space Base 8 has a Facebook Fan Page. You may want to become a fan of Space Base 8 on Facebook. I may want you to become a fan of Space Base 8 on Facebook.
Okay then.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Base-8/134118467620 and check it out, if you please.
Oh, and follow me on twitter … @cartoonsmith
Ya might say that Sesame Street has little to do with monkeys, robots and rocketships, and so it has little to do with Space Base 8. Not so, I’d say back to ya. I was four years old when my mom turned the channel to PBS and told me there was a new show we should watch. That show, of course, was Sesame Street, and it was the best show on television. For me, anyway. Sesame Street taught me just as much about humor and storytelling as it did about the difference between near and far and the letter  ”J”. Without Sesame Street, would I ever have become a fan of silly looking characters doing ridiculous things? I am glad I didn’t have to find out!
So blow out the candle, Sesame Street. The whole world loves you!
Have you heard of the game Rock Band? Did you know that you can play it on an iPhone? Did you know that a robot can play Rock Band on an iPhone? Skeptical, eh? You want proof, eh? Well then, just watch this video!
Mucho Cool!
This rockin robot was put together by Joe Bowers, whose blog can be found at http://blog.ohbowz.com .
