The desire to be great

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Anyone there?

It's been an age since I posted a comic. I am not sure whether I should apoligise or if I should believe I have done nothing wrong. Lots of stuff has happened since the last comic. If there are any people here just for comic, chances are you don't care, maybe you do care, I may be mistaken. Assuming you do care, I have moved, so everything was/is a mess, I attended a wedding just outside Munich, spent a week there and spent 1 additional week in Berlin. Also, I'm South African so I needed to get a visa to go to Germany. I am living in London there is a German embassy here but the earliest appointment I could get was tomorrow. So to get the visa I had to go to Edinburgh. On top of this, I've had 9 to 5:30 work aswell. So it's been a FULL two months.

Space Panda Reclassification Notice

I've noticed that animators can release animations when they like and people don't mind. So from this day forward Space Panda is officially reclassified as Animation.

Still Animation.... With speech bubbles.... On the web.

RSS Changes

I have made some changes to the RSS feed. It now includes the comic in the feed. I figure if I can't keep to schedule the least I can do is take out as many barriers to your reading as I can.

Possible Character Redesign

I am thinking of redesigning the space panda character to make him more workable. This is a possibility

The Science of Superstition

My mind works very strangely... assuming it works. Something I've done since I was a kid was try to figure out how things work. By "things" I mean physical things as well as concepts. As an example I would take my watch apart and put it back together, or I try to figure out how light interacts with the eye for sight to happen. All of this at a very young age. For instance on of the theories about sight I had at about 6 or 7 years of age was that if someone looks at an object, the light between that object and your eye was altered... as if something were removed from it... that is to say there was less of something... so because something was removed from that path of light, technically there should be a finite amount of people that could look at a single object. I knew the amount of people would probably be a really large amount... I didn't guess what that number would be.

But what I found my mind doing the other day was that, without my knowledge, my brain was trying to figure out the science of various superstitions I had heard over the years. One of them being something about magpies: "One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told." I started thinking, you could chain eight magpies to your body... that way any amount of magpies you see wouldn't affect you. If you did go that route, you might also want to find out if they have to be real magpies, you could get away with using robotic ones.

To change the subject completely... how cute is this?