OLD ART: THE GALACTIC CITY, PART 2More of the comic where in high school I first conceived of the se
OLD ART: THE GALACTIC CITY, PART 2More of the comic where in high school I first conceived of the setting of my celestial body characters. As you can see they originally were very humanlike, had fleshy organic body parts, etc.You can see Tartarus’ original design here. Originally he was nicknamed “Hawking” and preferred to be called this instead of Tartarus; I later got rid of it because naming a black hole after Stephen Hawking sounded the exact opposite of intimidating. He had an Alien-style second set of pharyngeal jaws that were meant to represent his inner event horizon; this is a surface inside a rotating black hole where streams of matter and energy collide and build up to crushing energies. In reality they’re thought to form singularities, not jaws, but 16 year old me thought depicting them as jaws would be cool.He also wore spiked bracelets and sunglasses…which doesn’t make a lot of sense for a supermassive black hole, but still isn’t as bad as the Great Annihilator’s longcoat and broad-brimmed hat.The Great Annihilator is a stellar black hole in the center of the Milky Way that has very powerful positron-electron jets. The positrons and electrons annihilate with one other, creating gamma rays, hence the name. In my original conception of the Antiocheka quasar, The Great Annihilator was a refugee from the “Milky Way Matter Famine” who fled to the quasar galaxy. He speaks in a “Virgo Cluster Accent” that basically is my bad attempt at spelling out a Southern dialect.As the setting became more realistic, the Great Annihilator was gone. There’s no real reason someone from the Milky Way would go to a quasar…the nearest one is more than a billion light years away. I do still have a certain nostalgia for the idea of a black hole as famine refugee and the idea of a black hole with a hat. Maybe someday I’ll make one with a hat-shaped corona? We technically don’t know the shape of black hole coronae so maybe a hat isn’t as far fetched as you would think……There is a perception that when astrophysicists make fictional settings and stories, it has to be iron-hard. It certainly seems to be the trend I notice. But then there’s me, who is like “dammit I want a black hole with a hat, and I’m gonna get a black hole with a hat.” -- source link
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