Howdy from the land of hamburgers and Coca-Cola! It’s your pal Wave coming at you with another blog post. Today, October 14th 2025, marks three years that me and Squimoo have been working on The Space Between. That is longer than I’ve ever stuck to any project ever. Especially for a creative one. So I thought that this would be a good day to look back on it thus far, from humble beginnings to the current form it exists in.
Truly from the outset TSB ballooned into something bigger than either of us initially thought. Initially it wasn’t even really a comic, it was just Ferelith and Vexen as characters.
It didn’t take long for us to eventually go “hey what if we made a little story for these two goobers?” And so it was. Many nights were spent spitballing ideas back and forth, building up their characters and backgrounds and the world that they would exist in. Vex became a shiteating conniving roguish criminal who had seldom known the comforts other take for granted. Feri got a job and all the mental anguish and expectations that follow such a foolish decision. As discussed in my previous post about the setting and theme, we quickly determined that we didn’t want any humans here. This would be a story full of weirdos. It would have space capitalism and robots and bounty hunters. It would have as few references as possible to other Sci-Fi works. So we made a google doc and just poured everything we had into it, and at the very top of it sat the blurb:
The Space Between is a sci-fi adventure comic which takes place in a distant galaxy and follows Ferelith Caprical, a frustrated employee of an interplanetary conservation agency, and Vexen, a little freak even by alien standards, as they bop across the stars and find themselves in an increasingly tangled web of bureaucracy, violence, and affections.
For those of you who are curious, we followed a planned-yet-flexible approach to the overarching plot. We came up with story arcs, events, characters, how these two would develop, but made sure to keep it from ever being “Word Of Law” insofar as not being able to change things. This was, laregly, because we knew from the outset that this would take a very long time to make, and expecting the shit you came up with years prior to still be what you want to do is unrealistic. We don’t know the future.
Chapter 1 so far has been the most straightforward and has required the fewest iterations, which kinda makes sense considering it’s the setup and required the most planning. As such there’s not as much to go into for its planning other than us really getting our feet wet with the whole “we’re making a longform narrative with another person.”
This did not carry over into Chapter 2. We went through several different plans and scripts and rewrites that all centered around “Ferelith attends her meeting and the first big overarching story starts”. I’ve included a bit of the abandoned idea of them going to a party and Vex having to sneak around below, straight from the first draft itself.
Eventually we settled on the Rocky Roads and space traffic and the perils of Zoom calls (largely informed by my experience having to work remote during the first quarantine). But it was also at this time that we really had to figure out how to work together and balance expectations, and also started branching out into how we were wanting to distribute the comic.
Chapter 3 went through one major rewrite because, as you may not know, it was initially going to be two chapters. MB was also going to be a much different character. But once the initial planning was done and I actually started scripting it, we realized that, oh, wait, no, there’s absolutely not enough here for two chapters. So we did a bit of trimming here and there and made what, in my opinion, has been the best chapter so far.
And now here we are! Chapter 4! Catgirls! Guns! We have our own website and are being hosted on several others! Networking and fan dubs! And we still have so very much planned for you all.
It’s been rough going a few times, but that is fully to be expected with any creative and collaborative endeavor. And through it all, Squimoo and myself have persevered and come out better for it.
With all that said, I think y’all will like what we have coming down the pipe, and we both thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for going with us on this journey. So sincerely, thank you.
See you in the stars.
-Wave🌊
