Sea Dogs of Mars
"1000 years after Mars has been terraformed, Adrianne McCowan and her first mate Gorkin Courbear lead their ragtag crew across the Martian seas looking for fame, fortune, and swashbuckling adventure."
If there's one genre I think doesn't get enough attention in webcomics it's Sci-Fi. Sure, there are a few of them out there but not nearly as many as other genres. With the over-saturation of zombies and vampires in mainstream entertainment, the Sci-Fi genre continuously goes over-looked.
I was pulled in by this comic from the very first panel. Was that a Puddle Jumper flying over the city?
The comic featured a lot of the typical (read stereotypical) elements of a Sci-Fi story; a dirty bar full of scoundrels, humanoid aliens, sentient droids (at least they seem to be) and some space-pirates! What makes this story a little different is that it takes place on a thriving terraformed Mars 1100 years in the future.
The pirate feel is captured with near perfection by the artist and the design of technologies has a FireFly feel while still managing to maintain it's own identity.
Overall, Sea Dogs of Mars manages to capture the "pirates in space" (or on another world, anyway) feel the same way FireFly captured the "western in Space" feel. Let's hope Sea Dogs of Mars has a longer run before it's canceled!
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