Introduction To The Ensemble Cast of Space Grind

Space Grind has five main characters (six if you wanna count Baby Radmu). This blog post will briefly introduce you to each of them.

Neuro (the neurotic one)

Before being captured by the aliens (and given his ridiculous new name), Neuro graduated from a prestigious college and became an aerospace engineer. He starts out as 24 years old in the series. Just as his new chapter in life was about to begin, the Zeyrians came and took it away.

Neuro is intelligent, but often makes dumb decisions under pressure. He’s always had anxiety, too. As you can imagine, being captured and forced to work in a bizarre alien world did not help.

As much as Neuro doesn’t want to, he’ll usually do what his alien master (Trax) tells him to do. However, he’s always secretly making blueprints and escape plans. He often tries to convince Dimwit and Onion (his fellow alien abductees) to help him escape, but they are even more clumsy than he is. Not to mention neither of them are very bright.

Dimwit (the dimwitted one)

Dimwit is the comic relief character. He often messes up his tasks like Neuro does, but not cuz he cracks under pressure. Rather, he’s too dumb to get them done right. In spite of his circumstances, he’s a pretty happy guy (for some reason). He’s also naïve and gullible.

Before working for Trax, Dimwit was a jobless 25 year old living with a roommate. His roommate would many times make him feel bad for not being able to get a job, making him feel useless. When Trax started giving Dimwit “jobs,” he felt a sense of accomplishment and importance. He felt like somebody finally needed his help, when in reality Trax isn’t able to replace him for a better “employee.” He often refers to Trax as “Boss.”

Onion (the dumb jock)

Onion may be 23 years old, but his mind is still in high school. He often picks on Neuro and manipulates Dimwit for selfish reasons. He is brawny and arrogant. He worked as a model, vlogger, and body builder before being abducted by the Zeyrians. He is obsessed with working out, looking strapping, and scoring chicks.

Trax often uses him for tasks that require a little extra strength. Onion often doesn’t do what he’s told, and when he does, he’ll do it lazily. He is often cocky with Trax, calling him “Old Man.”

RSL (the robot servant)

RSL is the robot servant of Trax. She was originally just a robot made for dancing. Then Trax transformed her into a fighting machine. At first, she comes off as stoic. However, she has a fun side to her that she just doesn’t express very much. When she’s with her robot friends, she’s much more loose. She is witty, sassy, and confident when she struts her stuff.

Trax assigns RSL the task of helping Neuro, Dimwit, and Onion adjust to their new lives. She has been with Trax for seven years, and knows what triggers his wrath. Trax doesn’t want to off the men, which he has done to previous servants out of frustration. He believes RSL is very capable of helping the three newcomers, as much as they tend to annoy her.

Trax (the hot-headed alien master)

Trax is the owner of Neuro, Dimwit, and Onion. He is hot-headed, adroit, and socially awkward. He works for a company called WepCo, which manufactures weapons for the Zeyrian military, planetary conquerors, and regular people. Trax has a great reputation for crafting genius weaponry. One of his guns can shoot laser bullets with nano tracking devices, incase the target were to somehow survive the blow. However, his prestigious job isn’t enough to cover an enormous debt he’s gotten himself into. Scammers sold him EXPENSIVE, fraudulent parts for his ultimate weapon idea. Because of his debt, he had to downgrade his home to an unostentatious alien saucer (considered a “mobile home”).

Some of Trax’s other attributes is his loyalty to his planet, loving his wife and only daughter, and his prejudice against alien species other than his own. He is very patriotic, which is the common culture of his planet. He has a wife named Rel, but their marriage is on the rocks. Rel and Trax agreed to live separately after downgrading their home, as much as they want to make their marriage work. I will make a future blog post describing their relationship. I will also make a future blog post describing the reason for Trax’s prejudice.

Radmu (the radioactive mutant baby)

Radmu was founded by Dimwit in a radioactive dumpster on a different planet. He has unpredictable, mutant abilities, such as laser vision and the ability to walk on walls. His alien species is known for having a blind, extreme attachment to the first four people they see after being born. The first person he saw was Trax, so he is very clingy with him. Trax did all he can to get rid of Radmu, but the little baby wouldn’t leave him alone. Since Radmu is considered dangerous to the public, Trax is forced by the law to tame him.

Radmu also has extreme attachment to Dimwit, RSL, and Neuro. This is because they were the next three people he saw after being born. However, he is not fond of Onion. Unlike Trax, he can see Onion for the jerk that he is. Radmu does not like him and often purposely gives him a hard time.

I hope you like these characters.

Please email me or comment below what you think of them 🙂

Introducing Myself and My Website and Future Comic Books

Hello! Welcome to my blog 🙂

I am a first-time comic book writer and artist. My name is Alexandra Nelson. You can also call me by my “stage” name: Alexzendraw. I am currently 22 years old and live in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Me reading on my apartment’s balcony on a BEAUTIFUL day.

Why “Alex Zen Draw”?

Alexandra is my full name. I also wanted to make a pun out of the middle of my name (the “an” part). So here’s how I broke up my name:

Alex: The first part of my name. The “A” in my logo stands for this.

Zen: Sounds close to the middle part of my name. The word “Zen” means, “peaceful and relaxed.” It’s also a word that comes from Buddhism, but it’s not meant to mean anything super deep when it comes to my comics. Honestly, writing and drawing is therapeutic for me, which is why I think “zen” is fitting.

Draw: One day, someone I met joked that I should call myself AlexandDRAW because I like to draw. I thought that was interesting and funny, so I made that part of my stage name. It’s super fitting since I make the drawings for my comics.

The logo for Alex Zen Draw Comics.

Tell me about your comics

I am working on making my first ever comic book called Space Grind: House Havoc. It is planned to be done by June 2021. It will be self-published using Amazon KDP. After that, I would like to make more comics about Space Grind and other story ideas I have 🙂

Brief descriptions of 5 of my ideas:

Space Grind: This will be the story that I will make my first comic out of. It is a sci-fi comedy about 3 humans who are abducted by aliens, and then forced to work for a hot-headed alien. They are determined to get their freedom back one day, but their escape plans keep failing. When they’re not trying to escape, they must try to appease their new alien master named Trax.

The Space Grind characters (left to right): Dimwit, Neuro, and Onion.

To read a free comic from the first book, here’s the link: https://alexzendraw.wordpress.com/2021/10/22/space-grind-exposition-comic/

Jack Potter: A superhero story about a man with powers that have a casino theme. His name is a play-on-words of the word “Jack pot.” One day, he spun a magic “carnival” wheel that gives superpowers. The wheel stopped landed on the “jackpot,” where he got all the abilities on the wheel. The story is inspired a lot by Batman, especially when it comes to the quirky villains (such as Jack’s enemy: “Pokerface”). Jack fights crime and seems to get revenge on a villain named Blackjack, who killed his brother.

An old sketch of Jack Potter. His real name is not set in stone.

Celestial Circle: A story all about personified characters that are based on celestial objects. These are “Celestial People” that live together as a society. Constellations are considered neighborhoods. Stars are at the top of the social hierarchy. They are considered leaders, and sometimes even celebrities. Planets must listen to their Star, and also give commands to their Moons. Moons are subject to their Planet, but sometimes a “skilled” Moon can act as a mentor to them.

The plot centers around a Celestial Person named Jupiter. She is an outcast and can’t pin point why. She only has a handful of Celestial Persons that like her, such as her Moon Mentor “Callisto” and her friend “Mercury.” One day, she learns that a Celestial Person named “Earth” has gone missing for years. Jupiter thinks that if she can find Earth and bring her back safely, she will be accepted in Celestial Society.

A drawing of the celestial person based on planet Neptune.

Gate City: Gate City is about a young girl (who starts out as 11 years old). Her name is Selena Villarreal. She moves to a fictional town in the USA called Gate City. One day, she finds a magic key that unlocks invisible gates that are scattered all through out her new home. Each gate has a fantasy world inside it. After losing her brother to a mysterious Gate World inhabitant, she is determined to find him. She gets help along her journey, making friends from the various gate worlds and learning from another Gate City citizen that also has one of the magic keys.

An old drawing I made for Gate City.

Sharpay Spree: This comedy idea is about: Sharpay Spree — a ditzy, teenage girl that loves to shop. She constantly makes impulse purchases, including a haunted, sassy doll named Obake. Even with the help of her frugal best friend Zoe Hernández, Sharpay keeps on making purchases that lead to regretful (tho usually humorous) consequences.

My very first drawing for my Sharpay Spree idea. I don’t have very many drawings for this idea, so that’s why I’m showing this one.

Plans for the future

I plan on one day becoming a show runner. While I’m working towards that dream, I want to get my ideas out there in comic book form. This is so others can get an idea of what my cartoon series ideas are like. I hope you enjoy reading my comics 🙂

NOTE: I used to have a blog (back in January) that focused only on Space Grind. I need some time to transfer all the blog posts over to this website before I delete that website. I want to keep the posts, but remove the SG website eventually.

Have a blessed day! 😀

(April 4th, 2021 Edit) – Right now, I’m having problems getting on my own website. Hopefully I can figure out the problem soon and totally fix it.