I rather like the two blasters on the left.

Very appealing globes on Petina and Jackie.

And the helmets are nice, too.

*pewpew*

Ugh! You got me! Lucky shot!

Those sparks must hurt.

These also from the long torso era? I think I'm beginning to recognize the features.

Yes they are! At the end of 2003 I made a change in my drawing style that return my ribcage length to a more natural proportion, and raised the waistline and hips on my characters. I had started to suffer from what I call Shirow syndrome.

Aha, I thought I could recognize it. =^.^= I too went through that issue for a short while when I was first attempting to master anatomical proportions.

They're cute in those suits!

A Buck Wogers Wocket Wapid Wabbit Wipeout Wifle? Ohhhhh Boy!

I have to say I just can't help but love your girls, you have such an adorable and happy collection of ladies.

Petina, Jackie, Rosemary and the rest of the gang wave back at you.

*yeahs and wavies to all the perky and happy ladies* Nice to see ladies who can be appreciated for being so smart and capable while being so sexy as well.

Cute mousie gals in retro 50s space outfits! Cute :)

Those are too goofy on the designs. I think at least 2 I just saw about 3 weeks ago from real toy space pistols from a "huge" antique show I can assume from the 50-60s

Neato! http://www.theweaponshop.com/raygun.html has some old toy ray guns.

Sometimes I wonder whether people find retro-tech vaguely embarassing and toylike because of the assumption of optimism.

I don't know? If that was the case it would seem that the current popular trend of all retro design that has caught on in some industrial design. In particular for, cars, motorcycles, and some home applinances would not have been son well received by the public. Still just sticking cool-looking fins on a new car won't sell it if the guts of it don't live up to the buying public expectations of what new cars should be. Ford got burned on the new Thunderbird a few years back. Intitial sales were good but after the first wave of nostalgia wore off the public got cold to the all rattles and poorly thought out aspects of it. A few years later when Ford decided to give the Mustang an updating they made certain the undergear would be more up to snuff to go with the cool 70's look they were projecting. Much better success for Ford!

Funny enough the "skin-tight spacesuit" is actually a far better design than the 'man in a kevlar balloon' style. It only that we're just now getting to be able to make MCP suits. Now we just need to bend the rest of those pesky physics to our will.