calm down sedna, it could be worse. you could be an awkward 24 year-old whose only accomplishments are learning to watch anime without subtitles and drawing a space webcomic barely anyone reads. …not that i know anyone like that. ◑.◑
Webcomics featuring sedna's dad
vegetables
sedna used “sulk”! it’s not very effective!
sedna’s dad used “guilt”! it’s super effective!
earthrise
fact: anything you can completely cover with your thumb does not at all matter (i.e. literally everything if you stand back far enough). it’s called the jim lovell principle, and it’s definitely a real thing that i didn’t make up just now. ◑.◑
maybe this is why sedna never lets dini get more than a few steps away from her. (´ω｀*)
english lessons
sedna is determined to try every possible avenue of getting out of doing this homework… except for actually doing it.
hope you mates all have a happy new year. yeah i know 2020 doesn’t exactly have a glowing reputation by this point, but at least we got a whole bunch of exciting rocket launches out of it. i’ll see you all again in 2021, when hopefully we get even more rocket launches!
…and less plague. that would be nice too.
cancelled
there’s regular hating school, and then there’s building-an-entire-deep-space-radio-transmitter-level hating school. sedna leans more towards column b.
interestingly, i just checked through my onenote pages and it turns out i originally wrote this comic back in august 2017 for classic sedna (i had a really large reserve of draft comics, most of which sucked). it feels kinda weird seeing it actually being published after all that time.
ancestors
of course, if it’s supernovae we’re talking about then in a way they actually are our ancestors, but that’s a comic for another time. no seriously, it’s exactly 12 comics from now. mark your calendars lads.
it’s sad that some people can’t appreciate stars without applying some weird personification or spiritual meaning to them. i mean come on, they’re colossal billion-year-old nuclear hellfire deathballs! what could possibly be more awesome than that?
event horizon
hopefully non-aussies know what a hills hoist clothesline is, or this comic is gonna be real confusing.
i would be amiss if i failed to mention that ‘spaghettification’ is a real scientific term that you should totally drop whatever you’re doing and google right now. it refers to when the extreme tidal forces of a black hole stretch you into a long skinny noodles should you get too close. well, more likely it would just shred you to pieces, and you would have been well cooked by extreme heat and radiation long before you even got there, but hey, you’d be a tad too dead to appreciate the difference either way.
just stay away from black holes kids. they’re not your friends.
saturday morning
(click here for a high resolution version of this illustration)
illustration day mates! i think i really should study how cool/warm light and shadow works because i have no idea what i’m doing. this time i snuck in a few sedna easter eggs. see if you can spot any (that is if you can be bothered).
fun fact: the saturn jigsaw puzzle is actually based on a true story. my sister gave me a 1,000 piece jupiter jigsaw last christmas and is was by far the hardest puzzle i’ve ever completed in my life. still, it was worth it just for the moment when we put the last piece in while blasting the musical piece ‘jupiter’ from ‘the planets, op 32’ by gustav holst. i know i’m a dork but it felt good man.
school day
that’s right, we’re doing a school arc mates. apparently i still have some childhood trauma to work through or something, and this is as good an output as any. also, do kids in any other countries wear these wide-brim hats as part of their school uniform, or is it just an aussie thing?
relativity
look at me, actually drawing launch towers properly for once.
plugging some quick numbers into wolfram alpha, the energy required to propel a 100 metric tonne ship to 99% the speed of light is roughly 5.472×10^22 joules. this is equivalent to 1/9th the energy of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, or 225,000x the energy of the tsar bomba, the largest nuclear bomb in history. and that’s not even to mention the energy required to stop, come back, and stop again.
which is to say, sedna’s being a little optimistic in her dream here.