Art

A digital drawing of Hera from above. Hera is a humanoid artificial intelligence with blue-tinted skin, dark brown hair, pale blue eyes without pupils and is wearing a sleeveless brown and blue shirt. She is looking up with a worried expression, holding one arm out and one hand against her chest. She is standing on a beige background, with blue waves in the corner, presumably water on a beach. Surrounding her are blue rectangles that show different scenes from the podcast.

A Thought and Memory

by Paperclipe

A digital painting of Isabel Lovelace in front of a dark blue background of space. Lovelace has brown skin and curly black hair which is shaved on the sides and long on top. She is wearing a white tank top, baggy blue pants and a white shirt wrapped around her waist. Her arms are hanging by sides and she has a peaceful expression. There is a wavy pale blue stripe behind her with the words “Let me flow with the freshet.” in cursive script written on it.

Freshet

by Sadgician

A digital drawing of Hera, a humanoid artificial intelligence, floating midair. She is chubby with long, wavy white hair, and is wearing a bodysuit, gloves and boots. Everything except her hair is colored in blue green. Her clothing has a faint circuitry pattern over it. She has a peaceful expression and is sitting midair, with her elbows rested on her knees. Behind her is Wolf 359, with constellations in the background. Bordering her are two boxes colored in blue-grey, with circuitry patterns. In the bottom corners are two blue stars, and in the top corners are drawings of the Plant Monster. Directly below Hera is a text box that says “Such a big, big universe.” in flowing script, set over a dark grey panel with binary written faintly on it.

Big, Big Universe

by Sadgician

A three panel comic. The first panel shows Lovelace and Minkowski looking at each other. Lovelace is a dark skinned woman with curly black hair that is pulled into a ponytail. She is wearing a dark grey tank top and looks down at Minkowski with a solemn expression. She is outlined in bright blue. Minkowski is a light skinned woman with dark brown hair that is pulled back into a ponytail, wearing a blue uniform. She looks up at Lovelace with a solemn and sad expression. In white text above her head she says, “I wanted to know that you could do it. That you could make it home.” Lovelace says in glowing neon blue text are the words, “Maybe I could’ve.” Minkowski says, “Yeah...Maybe.” The second panel shows Hera and Maxwell looking at each other. Hera is a humanoid artificial intelligence with blue skin and short white hair. She is looking at Maxwell with an angry expression. Maxwell is a dark skinned woman with long black hair and is looking at Hera with a solemn expression. She is outlined in bright blue. Hera says in white text, “I want an answer.” Maxwell says in glowing neon blue text, “Hera...I’m afraid you’re not going to get one. Not a real one.” The third panel shows Eiffel and Hilbert. Hilbert is bald, with pale skin and is wearing glasses and a blue uniform under a white lab coat. Eiffel is a light skinned man and has curly dirty blonde hair and stubble. He is wearing a blue uniform and looks solemnly at Hilbert. In white text Eiffel is saying, “I wanted to believe you could come back to the light side.” Hilbert says in glowing neon blue text, “Well...we will never know now.” Eiffel says, “Yeah…”

Bolero

by Ham

A GIF of Hera, a humanoid artificial intelligence. She is holding a hand to the side of her head with an anxious expression. The GIF toggles between a few different drawings, with two different colorings. In one she has blue skin and white hair, with fully white eyes. In the other she is light skinned, with dark brown skin and fully black eyes. There are multicolored lines that flash on it as well, like a glitching computer.

Hera Glitching

by Ham

A digital drawing of Minkowski and Lovelace floating in a dark grey hallway on the Hephaestus. Lovelace is a dark skinned woman with curly dark brown hair that floats around her. She is wearing a white tank top and baggy blue pants. With one arm she is holding onto a handle on the door, and with the other she is holding onto Minkowski. Minkowski is a light skinned woman with black hair, a nervous expression on her face. She is wearing a white t-shirt and similar pants to Lovelace. She is holding a hand to her stomach, where her clothing is stained with blood, and there is blood floating around her.

Stay With Me, Minkowski

by Ham

A digital drawing of Lovelace floating in front of a dark background. She has brown skin with a scar over her left eye, dark brown hair that is in a braid by her side and is wearing a space suit with blue and orange accents on it. She has her arms crossed across her chest, and has a peaceful expression with her eyes closed. Behind her is Wolf 359. There is a thin white line around the border. Written above is loopy white text which reads, “You’re not what you were made.” and written below her is, “You can grow.”

Change of Mind

by Fermi

A digital drawing of Doug Eiffel floating inside the Hephaestus next to a copy of Pryce and Carter. He has brown skin, long brown hair and is wearing a blue uniform with yellow accents. Below him is a black text box with white text that reads, “E: Commander? I think you should see this. >Look. Don’t.” It is set up like a videogame choice screen.

Commander?

by Jace Dorian Caridad

A digital painting of Hera and Alana Maxwell on a dark grey background. Hera has brown skin and dark brown hair that floats around her head. She is wearing a dark blue uniform and she has her eyes closed in a peaceful expression. Maxwell is a light skinned woman with red hair that floats around her, wearing glasses and a grey and black uniform. She has a serious expression and is holding her hands on either side of Hera’s head. Behind her is a wave, and behind Hera are six black wires that expand out, with blue and red wires curling around them.

Hera and Maxwell

by Jace Dorian Caridad

A digital drawing of Eiffel and Lovelace. The drawing is split into two halves, the left half is of Lovelace. She is a dark skinned woman with dark brown hair pulled into a bun. She is looking up with a sad expression. Behind her is red Wolf 359. The other half of the drawing is Eiffel, a light skinned man with brown hair pulled back into ponytail. He is looking up with a smile, with blue Wolf 359 in the background. Below Lovelace are the words, “I...am Captain Isabel Lovelace. No matter how hard you try, you are not taking that away from me.” written in blue text. Below Eiffel, written in red text are the words, “Eh, all my memories go, sure, but so do yours. Our minds are linked, remember? We’re driving off the cliff together, Louise.”

Doug and Lovelace

by River Croft

An acrylic painting of Doug Eiffel looking at Wolf 359. Eiffel is a lanky mestizo man with short hair, dressed in a green flight suit. He is sitting at a desk by a window, facing away from the viewer. Eiffel’s left hand is on an audio control panel. An unlit cigarette hangs from his mouth. Wolf 359 is a red dwarf star, painted with swirling strokes of pink, orange, and yellow. Eiffel’s equipment and hair reflect some of its starlight.

Graveyard Shift

by Thea Sunada

Notes: He’s the best around, nothing’s ever going to keep him down! For context, “he” is Communications Officer Douglas Eiffel, and he would have wanted this sort of intro. One of my favorite parts of Wolf 359 is Eiffel and HERA’s friendship, which is a beacon of happiness in the sad confines of the Leo constellation. I see a lot of myself in HERA and can confirm that a personality like Eiffel’s would make the perfect foil.

A digital painting of a person in a spacesuit floating in space in front of Wolf 359. The suit is white, with pale orange accents and a bulky dark grey jetpack on the back. The person’s face is hidden by a white helmet with a blue faceplate. Wolf 359 is a glowing blue star which is colored with small lines in many different shades of blue. There are some faint blue strokes around Wolf 359 to show it’s glowing.

Leap of Faith

by Kiefernsap

Hera

by ash_makes_trash

A twelve-panel greyscale comic featuring Eiffel. He has dark hair pulled back in a ponytail and is wearing a loose, dark grey shirt. He is holding a recording device and is in a grey room with a dark grey spot on the wall. In the first panel, he is holding the recording device to his mouth and looking at the grey spot while saying, “Ooookay! That got a little weird!”. In the second panel Eiffel is looking at the recording device and saying “But, my dear listeners, you’ll be glad to hear,” In the third panel Eiffel is gesturing towards the grey spot on the wall with a suspicious expression and saying, “I am longer speaking with the grey spot on the wall.” In the fourth panel he is saying, “Because to be honest, he’s a bad influence.” In the fifth panel Eiffel is smiling and saying, “But we’ve reached an understanding!” In the sixth panel he is looking down and saying, “Mostly that this is where I die because nobody is coming for me.” In the seventh panel Eiffel is shrugging and looking at the ceiling. He is saying, “So, now, in this, my final will and testament I bequeath all my po-” He is cut off at the end. In the eighth panel he looks thoughtfully at the recording device. He is saying “Oh, well, I guess I don’t exactly have my pos-” He cuts himself off again. In the ninth panel he is saying “My bones! My valuable bones,” In the tenth panel Eiffel is leaning back and gesturing towards the grey spot on the wall. He says, “to this grey spot on the wall,” In the eleventh panel he says, “in this empty room.” In the twelfth panel he is angrily gesturing towards the wall and saying, “Because no one is coming to sa-”. He is cut off by Hilbert, a bald man in a white lab coat and glasses opening the door behind Eiffel and says “Eiffel. What are you doing?” In the bottom right corner is a text box that reads “Ty for reading! @ash_makes_trash”

Adventure of a Lifetime

by ash_makes_trash

Hera

by Nat Martin

Hera + Rhea

by Rebecca Penfold

A drawing of Minkowski and the Plant Monster against a dark grey background. Minkowski is a muscular woman with light skin, brown hair that is pulled into a ponytail, one green eye and one brown eye, and a tattoo of a rose in a diamond on her right forearm. She is wearing a black tank top, green pants and black boots, with a communication device on her belt. She is floating midair and holding onto one a vine with an angry expression on her face. The Plant Monster is a plant with green vines and leaves, with some red eyes on said vines. Two vines wrap around Minkowski’s legs. The drawing is bordered by a painting of green ferns on a yellow background.

Plant Monster Fight Time

by Rebecca Penfold

A digital painting of Minkowski and Lovelace in front of Wolf 359. Minkowski is a thin woman with light skin and brown hair held back by an orange bandanna. She is wearing a white tank top and a beige uniform, the top of which is tied around her waist. She is holding a harpoon over Lovelace’s shoulder with one hand. Lovelace is a dark skinned woman with a shaved head and is wearing a beige uniform, unzipped to show some of her chest. She is holding onto Minkowski, as if swooning. Behind them is Wolf 359, a yellow and orange star. In orange cursive script in the top left of the drawing is written, “In the cold dark of space, the only place they can turn for warmth is...each other.” At the bottom of the drawing in orange text is written, “Love Amongst the Stars.”

Love Amongst the Stars

by Leo Renfield

The image is black and white except for the steam that has a slight tinge of orange. The image has two pipes in the foreground, blurred and black. Hilbert is far away surrounded by pipes and behind him is a hidden circular door that leads to the unknown. Hilbert himself is hard to see as his silhouette is obscured by the steam coming from the ceiling of a broken pipe. At the very bottom left of the illustration is a small textbox that reads: “Is anyone laughing now?”

Is Anyone Laughing Now?

by JasOso

Notes: All three of my pieces are supposed to be looked at like a tryptic! First Hilbert on the left, Minkowski in the middle and Eiffle on the right! He is the only one to be in an environment that lacks color. This is to reflect on how Hilbert- while being in the same situation as everyone else is, has isolated himself to a dead end.

The image is in a cramped one way corridor lit by the lights on the side of the wall that make the entire illustration red to show a cause for alarm. There are wires on the left only held by a gate and big boxes to the right. The handlebars on the wall lead to the middle of the illustration where in the doorway, coming out of the darkness is Minkowski floating towards and reaching out to the viewer.

Fear of Madness

by JasOso

Notes: I made Minkowski reach out to the viewer as a way to honor her character. In the series she is always reaching out for help and for teamwork, and I really wanted to have her reach out to the viewer as well.

The entire image is different types of blue. The border of the image is the door opening looking into the communications room, where Eiffel is seen working on a computer. The only light source coming from the computer. There is a window behind Eiffel that looks into space and next to it, is an image of a little girl.

Welcome to Wolf 359

by JasOso

A watercolor painting of Minkowski, Hilbert, Eiffel, the Plant Monster and Hera in a laboratory on the Hephaestus. The Plant Monster is in the bottom left corner. It has a green bulb with a red-lipped mouth that is open to show a couple teeth and a blue tongue. It has leaves around it, and vines that stretch throughout the drawing. On the back wall is a screen with Hilbert on it. He is bald, with pale skin and glasses. He is wearing a white shirt under a lab coat and has a slightly confused expression. In the top left corner is Eiffel. He has tan skin and dark brown hair, and is wearing a baggy orange jumpsuit. He is holding onto a vine and looking nervously behind himself at Hilbert. In the bottom right corner is Minkowski. She is a light-skinned woman with brown hair. She is wearing a similar orange jumpsuit and a red headband on her head. She has her arms held in front of her and is looking at Eiffel with an annoyed expression. In the top right corner is Hera, a blue smiling emoticon on a screen.

Plant Monster Hijinks

by Yujowheelies (Cecil Pulley)

A digital painting of Maxwell, Hera, Hilbert, Minkowski and Lovelace floating in a room while playing Funzo, which is made up of a rainbow colored board and cards, a spinner, a number of round gold tokens and a book that says, “The Rulz.” on the cover, all floating midair. On one side of the board are Maxwell and Hera. Maxwell has brown skin, brown hair pulled into a ponytail is wearing a black uniform and glasses. She is floating in front of some rainbow colored cards next to Hera, and is looking at the cards with a wide eyed expression. To her right is Hera, a humanoid artificial intelligence with blue skin and hair, wearing a blue uniform. She is pointing at one of the cards in front of her and Maxwell. On the other side of the board are Minkowski and Lovelace, looking at their cards. Lovelace is a dark skinned woman with black hair pulled into a bun and is wearing a white uniform. She is grinning at Minkowski, who is a light skinned woman with short black hair and is staring thoughtfully at their cards. On their right is Hilbert, a light skinned balding man with greying hair and a beard, wearing a white uniform and glasses. He is looking at the board with a tired expression.

Pryce and Carter 792

by Fair-lead

A painting of Wolf 359. It is painted in red, orange and yellow, and has a pale yellow border. The space around it fades from red to black. There is a line through the center of the star that is painted in blue.

Old Star, New Star, Red Star, Blue Star

by Anna Poulton

Warren

by Kate Zatti

The overall piece is a one page comic, done entirely in black and white. The panels are plated on top of a black, starry background. Panel 1: A far-out shot of the star Wolf 359, which is enormous and contrasts starkly against the expanse of space behind it. Loops of fire burst out from the star. The silhouette of the Hephaestus, now looking tiny, is visible in front of the star. The captions read: “Wolf 359 Mission,” “Day 1121 + 1,” “Mission Status: Failure,” and “Casualties: 6.” Panel 2: A close-up shot of the Hephaestus station, backlit strongly by the star’s light. The body of the ship is cylindrical with two rectangular panels extending from either side. The caption reads: “U.S.S. Hephaestus (unresponsive).” Overlapping the panel is a speech bubble attributed to Lovelace in the next panel. She says, “How much time, Jacobi?” Panel 3: A shot of Lovelace and Jacobi. Lovelace is a tall, thin Black woman with kinky shoulder length hair floating gently. She is wearing a light jumpsuit and grey undershirt, and has bandages on her eyebrow and chin. Jacobi is a short, fit East-Asian man with short black hair and large, thick-rimmed glasses. He has stubble on his chin, a large burn scar covering the right side of his face, and bandages on his jaw and neck. He is wearing a leather jacket and tee shirt. Both characters look exhausted, but Lovelace looks slightly hopeful. Jacobi looks to Lovelace and answers, “About a minute left, Captain.” A caption on the lower right hand corner reads “U.S.S. Urania,” signifying Jacobi and Lovelace’s location. Panel 4: A shot of the interior of the Urania’s observation deck. Jacobi and Lovelace float behind a large, curved window facing the star, which is visible along with the tiny silhouette of the Hephaestus. The right wall of the observation deck is lined with pipes, screens, and buttons. The floor of the deck is padded, and has a painted-on arrow pointing towards the window. Hanging over the left side of the room is a large, corrugated pipe which hangs down from the ceiling. Also on the left side is a shorter wall, which reads “U.S.S. URANIA” on the outside. The room is dark except for the light emitted by the star. Panel 5: A very close-up shot of Lovelace’s eyes. A strand of hair falls in front of her right eye. Reflected in both of her irises is the silhouette of the Hephaestus against the star. Her eyelids are half-lidded. Beneath this panel in the negative space in white letters is written “You ready?” which can be assumed is said by Jacobi.

Requiem

by Anna Stevenson

Notes: With Hera offline, Minkowski in critical condition and Eiffel’s memory wiped, Lovelace and Jacobi prepare to bid the Hephaestus its final farewell as it falls into Wolf 359.