Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-ups! I’m trying something different this go-around. I really enjoyed drawing the Space Age of Animus rejected idea strip, so this week I thought I’d draw the Funnies characters in that retro-futuristic sci-fi style. As always, click to embiggen.

Spacefur Rich was one of the two characters featured in the actual strip, so all I had to do was reproduce the general look of his appearance in the strip. In the Space Age of Animus setting Spacefur Rich would be a rocketeer, zipping along in space with his rocket pack.

For Sass, again the idea was to reproduce her general appearance in the strip. In this setting, she would be a rogue agent, which is why she doesn’t have the Space Corps lightning bolt logo on her spacesuit.

I decided Todrick would be a Space Corps fighter pilot. Since he’d be in a cockpit instead of out in space, his suit didn’t need to be as enclosed as Spacefur Rich’s, which is why his tail is exposed. My natural inclination was to make the spacesuit red but that wouldn’t have stood out from his fur so I went with blue instead.

Nektara would have been an officer in the Space Corps. Those old pulp sci-fi comics always had colourful costumes so I wanted an unconventional uniform colour to set the look apart from standard sci-fi uniforms. The lightning bolt pin on her lapel designates her rank. Since she only has one bolt, it’s safe to assume she isn’t in the upper echelons of command.

Barnaby would have been a general labourer on the space docks, so his spacesuit would need to be made of more rugged material and less fancy than the ones worn by his friends. The harness is a functional brace to assist in heavy lifting, reminiscent of the harness Barnaby had to wear when he was pulling the wagon on the way to the Crimson Coast.

Next week we’ll see how the other characters turn out (they’re not drawn yet).