Escape From Terra - by Sandy Sandfort, Scott Bieser and Lee Oaks! - Big Head Press, publishing Thoughtful Stories since 2002

Strip 56

We’re gonna watch some Cererean Ice Hockey – a collage of images arranged not in the usual panel sequence bit more with a key to pleasing eye-flow. My theory about very-low-gravity ice hockey is that it would acquire some strikingly different characteristics, mainly a tendency towards leaps and bounces. It will become more aerio-batic as the players adapt to the environment’s advantages as well as disadvantages.

Image 1
Two players from opposing teams charging at each other on the ice, a puck between them. This is the most “traditional” hockey image.

Image 2
We find out why the walls of the playing ice are curved up and slightly inward. Skaters can roll at them at high speeds and lanch themselves in high arcs, sometimes covering 90 meters across the playing area. Show a player just launching himself off a wall, in hot pursuit of a puck which has been knocked in the same direction. One or two other players in the scene are on the ice.

Image 3
In this image we see a flying puck in the foreground hotly pursued by two or three opposing players, all arcing in on it from different angles – one is on the ice and two are leaping through the air

Image 4
A goalie scene. Leaping goalie successfully blocks a shot, we see at least two other players in the shot.

Strip 56 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-12-01
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Strip 56

We’re gonna watch some Cererean Ice Hockey – a collage of images arranged not in the usual panel sequence bit more with a key to pleasing eye-flow. My theory about very-low-gravity ice hockey is that it would acquire some strikingly different characteristics, mainly a tendency towards leaps and bounces. It will become more aerio-batic as the players adapt to the environment’s advantages as well as disadvantages.

Image 1
Two players from opposing teams charging at each other on the ice, a puck between them. This is the most “traditional” hockey image.

Image 2
We find out why the walls of the playing ice are curved up and slightly inward. Skaters can roll at them at high speeds and lanch themselves in high arcs, sometimes covering 90 meters across the playing area. Show a player just launching himself off a wall, in hot pursuit of a puck which has been knocked in the same direction. One or two other players in the scene are on the ice.

Image 3
In this image we see a flying puck in the foreground hotly pursued by two or three opposing players, all arcing in on it from different angles – one is on the ice and two are leaping through the air

Image 4
A goalie scene. Leaping goalie successfully blocks a shot, we see at least two other players in the shot.