Fan Takeover: Pixie Rangers Episode 3 – A Grim Affair
We have an exciting fanfic from a whole new writer to share with you today!
This is Pixie Rangers Episode 3: A Grim Affair by Light Clark.
Note: This is “Episode 3”, but it’s still the beginning of the story. You’re intended to infer the contents of Episodes 1 and 2 from how this one starts, and from general familiarity with CD Rudd’s Pixie Rangers comic.
A Grim Affair is the first of three episodes which make up a new story written by Light Clark. It stars Star Ranger Chrissie in a story set entirely within the Pixie Rangers universe, which readers of CD’s other comic SailorSun.org (and his DeviantArt gallery) should be familiar with. For those unfamiliar, the Pixie Rangers are an interstellar police force staffed entirely by women, whose uniforms are skintight bodysuits with their name emblazoned on one leg.
Light Clark has written this story to resemble a script for an episode of a television show, and I personally found it to be very fun. It’s about 37 pages, and is a very quick read.
Unlike I Dream of Natalie, we’re not splitting this episode up into smaller chunks, even though it’s about the same length as IDON. Please let us know how you like having the entire episode go up all at once.
Also, Light Clark commissioned this lovely piece of art from @athorist to represent Chrissie’s big debut as a “main character”:
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The blue and red-haired characters are from his self-published novella series The Demon King of Gen’ric. If you liked A Grim Affair, you should definitely check it out. 🙂
Nice Ranger Chrissie is awesome and knows how to kick butt.
A fun story. Loved it.
Any chance of getting the existing Pixie Rangers comic pages re-posted somewhere with webcomic navigation? Even if they don’t require a subscription to read, I’d rather not have to wade through Patreon posts just to trawl the archive.
You can filter the Patreon list to display (pretty much) only the Pixie Rangers pages, in chronological order:
https://www.patreon.com/CDRudd/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=Pixie%20Rangers&sort=published_at
That said, once CD makes Pixie Rangers 2 (which he officially announced on the Patreon last month), I do think making a site like JB for it would be a good idea. Not sure how much effort that’d take on CD’s part, though.
Actually, I read the free Pixie Rangers comics already (and you already provided that url with the filter in the description, though changing the left column image link for Pixie Rangers to use it as well might be a good idea), so I should probably clarify my concern: nearly all webcomics allow me to view a page at a time with separate urls, so I can bookmark my progress while archiving (in case I need to shut down my computer before continuing). I don’t see a way to do that with the Patreon posts.
BTW, it would be problematic to test, but as far as holding your breath before being kicked out the airlock (or otherwise exposed to vacuum) as mentioned in one of the later pages, my hunch is that you’d involuntarily exhale one way or another before your lungs ruptured.
Very nice!
That was fun. Interesting formal