Bodies in space

The door to the airlock closes behind you before you can stop it. You turn slowly to face the outer doors, and with growing dread you realize you are face to face with the worst fear of every astronaut since the dawn of the space age: when the outer doors open, you'll experience explosive decompression. You're about to be introduced to the hard vacuum of space. What would that be like? If you watch movies, you might get a somewhat confused view of this. Your head will explode like a balloon full of pizza ("Outland"), your eyes and tongue will bug out as you choke to death ("Total Recall"), you'll freeze instantly ("Mission to Mars"). The problem is that none of these things is right. Artist Nathan Hoste got as tired as I was of Hollywood's depiction of getting tossed out the airlock, so he decided to draw a series ...