Space Barista

Tomo

Tomo is a dude who runs a kiosk in space. He as a pet dinosaur and his shapeshifter buddy Lupa. He runs his kiosk in a space mall, and enjoys fun with his friends, but wonders if he was made for more, and his gaze is increasingly heading out towards the stars. Tomo can control coffee with his mind, and uses it to help bring in the sales. Tomo grew up on the streets of Danothir with his best friend Charlie, and went from poverty to owning his own business.

Jen

Jen is a college student from a distant reality. Being a “Traveler,” she can jump through parallel universes as easily as opening doors. Only one in five trillion humans can be travelers, and she has never met another traveler before. On a recent trip to the ancient world of Cambria, she got a glimpse of another traveler and has begun to find a way to contact them.

Esther

Esther is a Dimension Cop who patrols and interacts with Space Barista’s dimension frequently. She’s pretty chill and has a major attitude befitting a veteran dimension officer. She currently lives on Mars, in our own universe, 10,000 years into our future.

Charlie

Charlie runs a space garage in the Space Mall, and loves a good time. He can teleport, and knows a lot of people in the galaxy that help him get around if he needs to. Charlie is Tomo’s best friend. They both grew up on the streets of Danothir and have gone from poverty to owning their own businesses.

Kira

Kira is the bakery owner in the Space Mall. She runs the store with Leli, and is a nice girl but has a slight temper. She is also a fierce warrior, being able to transform into a staff-wielding supersoldier when she needs to. She considers herself the guardian of Danothir, but very few people agree with her.

Lupa

Lupa is a visitor from another dimension. He is an explorer, and a powerful metamorph. However, when he fell through the portal by the Space Mall, he lost all of his ability to transform into anything. He now hangs out with Tomo but may hold a universe of mystery.

L’inda

L’inda is a Liradian who wants more in life than to just live on her own world. Her species can help plants grow, so she helps Tomo with growing his coffee plants as well as other plants they use for their fresh drinks. She also has a thing for Tomo.

Stegs

Stegs is a saurian from Archeo 7. He got the job to escape a mysterious past, but misses his home from time to time.

Billy

Billy is Tomo’s pet. Tomo found Billy, wounded and abandoned, in a dumpster. He nursed Billy back to health, and secretly keeps Billy with him wherever he goes.

Leli

Leli is a jovial shop owner in the Space Mall. He’s an old friend of Tomo, and has just opened a bakery shop with Kira.

Space Mall

The Space Mall is a repurposed colony ship that now travels the universe. The inside is a living biome of rivers, mountains, lakes and forests, with stores of every shape and kind inside! The mall itself is the size of a small moon! The space malls offers everything from a garden city, to a water theme park, three other theme parks, holographic game rooms, hundreds of stores of all types, a massive food court deck, space garage (mini starport) and much more!

Danothir

Danothir is the planet around which the space mall orbits. It is a designated pleasure world/tourist destination, being 80% ocean, with rainforests, deserts, snow covered mountain ranges and so much more. It is larger than Earth, with a small ring system barely visible, as well as four moons. Danothir is near a galactic highway, which brings a large amount of traffic to the system.

What is Space Barista?

Space Barista is a slice-of-life comic about a guy named Tomo who sells coffee in space!

Tomo works at a traveling space mall that flies through the universe. He has some amazing friends who work in the space mall with him. He also controls coffee with his mind!

Tomo loves his job and his friends, but dreams of one day doing something more!

When does Space Barista post?

Space Barista posts once or twice a week, usually around Wednesday or Friday. Many times, two to four comics will be posted at once. Make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed to get the latest updates!

I like the comic, can I buy a book?

You can purchase Space Barista’s Webcomic Book #1 HERE!

How to people travel in Tomo’s universe?

Every star in the universe is connected to a somewhat mycelial network of wormholes. Transit stations are located in many solar systems and almost every starship can access this network via their Stardrives.

The ship enters the wormhole network and navigates it to their destination.

It’s a sort of intergalactic highway.

How many galaxies are known in Tomo’s universe?

The universe itself is greatly mapped, but only 3% of all galaxies have been explored.

How does a civilization on that scale work? How is something that large able to function in real-time?

The 750 Galaxies that make up the whole of Civilization (a simple way of explaining the galactic cultures who use the Universal Wormhole Highway) have connected with each other to establish a somewhat real-time economy and industry. Each galaxy acts like a Nation, and the solar systems act like states and cities in that nation. The galaxies have a periodic summit to discuss matters of great importance.

This real-time economy and industrial system is only possible by the Universal Wormhole Highway. Messages can be sent in real-time, as well as transactions and other factors necessary for a working, living intergalactic commerce and industrial system.

The highway was created by the Odesai, a transdimensional species that has long vanished (we’re talking billions of years).