I wonder if I can find that interview excerpt…

Oh here it is:

Q: What would the show (Galaxy Girls) be like, if it ever gets made?
Epic adventures in space, or slice of life comedy, or something different?

Faust: Thematically, I was planning on making it a lot like MLP— slice of life + fun adventure— just in a fantasy, story-book version of space. But I put a lot of those ideas and themes and characterizations in MLP. If I move forward with it at this point, I would like to completely redesign the characters.
I kind of hate the way they look right now. I drew that stuff almost 10 years ago.

And that’s pretty much why drawing Mars is suffering. Do you get me now?