Jusko's Fantasy

      MOSTLY NAKED BABES WITH SWORDS! OILY SHIRTLESS BARBARIANS WITH ARROW-WOUNDS! MARTIAN MONSTERS WITH POINTY TEETH! LARA CROFT! These illustrations by artist Joe Jusko are a treat, you know, like a giant spoon full of sugar - or maybe an entire roast chicken that you can eat with your hands?

↑ Lady Death

Life On Mars

        Ground control to Spaceman David Bowie! Can you hear me, you crazy post-modernist? A real-life robot named Curiosity has landed on MARS. Martian exploration is the most refreshing thing to hit my shores this week. I dedicate this one to girls with the mousy hair everywhere: May you find your life on Mars!

↑ Curiosity rover, scootin' around on Mars. (Image taken by the Mars Reconnasince Orbiter)  NASA/JPL-Caltech

↑ Dark dunes and steep mesas at the foot of Mount Sharp NASA/JPL-Caltech

↑ Me, standing next the the blast marks made by the rover during its descent NASA/JPL-Caltech

↑ Gale Crater and evidence a fluvial system; a stream bed meanders down the crater wall NASA/JPL-Caltech

↑ Curiosity. A self-portrait NASA/JPL-Caltech

        And here's a little special something for all you science geeks out there: exclusive never before seen footage of NASA building the Curiosity rover: