Vorgahn the Conqueror: A Webcomic Taking #BlackGirlMagic into Space

[divider type=”thin”] I love seeing women in the sci-fi genre. I love seeing women of color in the sci-fi genre. I love seeing and reading women creating, writing, and drawing women in the sci-fi genre. Women have been at the helm of sci-fi from the very start when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launched the genre (literature-wise), and women have most certainly worked behind the scenes of the greatest franchises in history including Star Trek, organizing the earliest cons and being involved in fan-fiction and fan-made zines. The last time we had the pleasure of Deni Dimochka’s company, she graced us with an Carcosa Interview and she spoke on a future sci-fi themed webcomic that she had in the works. In her words: “Vorgahn the Conqueror,” she’s the lovely sci-fi lady with the blue hair and orange jumpsuit. Vorgahn is one of many descendants of the few countries that made it off earth and, with some intergalactic help, colonized current a homeworld Goldilocks planet: G3, two thousand years ago. Working as a Government ‘Auditor’ she’s sent off to unexplored planets to evaluate their population and decide whether or not they meet the criteria to be invited to join the flourishing Planetary Fellowship that G3 belongs to. She’s under-funded and over-worked, her ship is a floating death trap, her AI assistant Z’iebn is held together with hope and duct tape, and even though she hates her job she just isn’t sure what else she should be doing. There’s a lot of action and space exploratio…