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My name is Matthew J Wills, and I'm a cartoonist and video game tester from Wellington, New Zealand.

STARS is a series of comics about humans and aliens learning about each other's needs as they prepare for a journey across the stars. Space werewolves, alien chickens and evil Roombas keep the halls of this starship vibrant and silly. I wanted to make this comic as a break from my main series, but it's quickly gathering a fandom of its own over on Webtoon.

Click here, here and here if you want to see my previous posts about the webcomic series "Swords"!

More info: webtoons.com | Instagram | twitter.com | swordscomic.com | ko-fi.com | tiktok.com

I've been working on a fantasy webcomic, Swords, for the last 4 years and thought it was time for a little break. I've also been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time and decided to use the medium of comics to its fullest advantage by exploring the kind of weird alien lifeforms a live-action TV show would struggle to portray on screen.

Because Stars is set onboard a spaceship, with a wide variety of alien creatures, I wanted to focus on their personalities and relationships instead of worldbuilding and adventures. By giving them strong personalities, there are more fun things you can do with the chemistry between certain characters. The science officer named Bean is a total narcissist, so he'll have a conflict with just about anyone - but they keep him around because he really is a genius.

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At its core, Stars is about giving everyone a fair chance to be their best self, regardless of any physical or philosophical differences they might have to you. The main character is in charge of Interspecies Resources, so it's his task to make sure everyone on the ship gets along and has what they need in order to succeed. It's a story of many races uniting for a common goal.

I'm hoping between Swords and Stars I can garner enough support to pursue some more serious comic ideas in the future.

People have mostly reacted really positively to Stars so far! Unlike my other work, the premise is a bit more freestyle so it's easier for me to make silly jokes about a range of topics. I think they can tell I'm having fun with it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahaha without a doubt he is! Hope they give him something to get rid of those space fleas afterwards!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See??? What'd I say? 😂😂😂😂 That's funny, didn't even know about this one either when I made that comment on the other one, someone help these poor mutts out, come on!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's probably a cow pun somewhere in there, but I can't meat it in my brain! :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well unfortunately as you'll for out in approximately 1.35 secs you senses aren't too sharp

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They've got uniforms capable of withstanding plasma-phase bodies and uniforms that are non-itchy. The entity who manages to make a suit with both will go down in history as a hero.

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