Astounding Space Thrills was a webcomic by Steve Conley begun in 1997. It is also the title of a comic book series of the same name published by Image Comics.
Apparently inspired by early science fiction serials, the strip follows the adventures of Argosy Smith around the year 2030. He is often accompanied on his adventures by Theremin, formerly a human antique dealer whose body is now composed of "bioglop".
In 2008, IDW Publishing published the strip collection Astounding Space Thrills: Argosy Smith and the Codex Reckoning. It was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project.
Famous quotes containing the words astounding, space and/or thrills:
“... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through the prison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“Oh, my. I’d forgotten how much I hate space travel.”
—George Lucas (b. 1944)
“Some hours seem not to be occasion for any deed, but for resolves to draw breath in. We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us and ramble with prepared mind, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward which is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upward to the light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)