[For the hiatus, I’m going to be posting a bunch of the development art I made for the series. It’ll be posted in the order it was made, leading up to the week the comic resumes]

{Original Commentary} One of the very first aliens that is encountered in Key to the Future’s Fate: The Bonic!

I’ve had a handful of alien concepts in my head for years now, and it’s so nice to finally have a place for them. Granted, the aliens in KttFF aren’t the focus, but they’re fun to design and think about.

I love aliens made of goo or something similar, but I wanted to put a slightly different spin on it. It’s weird that I’ve been thinking about the design for these guys for years (specifically their simple face/head, but the rest of their body just came to me while drawing. They’ll need lots of padding to protect their organs and whatnot, after all.

{New Commentary} Making the Bonic was fun. They’re so expressive and chunky, it makes them fun background fodder.

And I’m sure you’re thinking that it’s weird that they can just walk around without clothes most of the time. The guiding rule in the KttFF universe is that, so long as there isn’t anything inappropriate showing naturally, then no one will bat an eye.