Karkaeology: Peladon Playset

I actuall don't have much to say about this one. I drew Alpha Centauri early on, so was keen to use her in a story, plus my new Ice Warriors, of course, and the plot pretty much wrote itself. I liked it at the time, and still do. It's VERY silly, a deliberate spoof of the courtly treachery in the Peladon stories, so a revisit beckons. I remember being quite happy with the shadows under the Aggedor statues - the early Erato stories don't have a lot of 'depth to them (in any sense, I guess!)

This appeared in TSV 58 (September 1999), but an appearance by Alpha Centauri preceded this in the pages of Reverse the Polarity! A Christchurch-based zine of which more later, in a single-page Pulp Fiction crossover (the zine was running its own highly inventive series Pulp Who at the same time.) Without jumping too far into the future, Erato characters did make their way into Pulp Who later, but this page is the first published pic of the Karkus' sometime squeeze...