Quantum Vibe - Strip 946 First Seen: Fri 2014-10-17

The sci-fi adventures of a girl, a mad scientist, and a robot.
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Scott @ Libertopia 2014 [ Oct 14, 2014 ]

Hey Kids! Scott's going to Libertopia in San Diego, CA this year, November 13 - 16. If you're planning to attend, or in the area, check it out, and say "Hi" to Scott. Stay tuned for more announcements!

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What We Saw At Austin Comic Con 2014 [ Oct 7, 2014 ]

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Panel 1
Theo is now in his 60s, with white hair, but still quite spry. He looks over his shoulder as he enters the door to a building marked: Fundación Matusalén
Caption: 'Farnsworth had kept abreast of all these developments in longevity and space travel, and incorporated them into his plans.'

Panel 2
Farnsworth in a hospital bed, hooked up to various gizmos.
Caption: 'In the first stage, he took treatments intended to extend his lifespan and energy without much affecting his outward appearance.
Caption: 'He maintained this regimen through the end of the first century, when he'd reached the age of 67.'
Panel 3
A surgical theater, in which doctors are doing things to Farnsworth's face (which we can't see at this point).
Caption: 'Two years later, in Brazil, he underwent plastic surgery to alter his appearance, and he assumed a new identity: Benedito Fernandes, supposedly born in 45 years earlier in São Paulo
Panel 4
Looking at Theo/Benedito with his new face, working at a computer laptop. In an inset, we see his old 'Farnsworth' face on a monitor screen.
Caption: 'Working remotely and using then state-of-the-art graphic techniques, Farnsworth was able to maintain his old image for the Israelis just long enough to implement his plan.
Panel 5
An intermediate-range ballistic missile launching from a mountainside silo.
Caption: 'Bypassing all of the Israel Defense Force's failsafes, Farnsworth was able to launch a dozen Jericho-V class intermediate-range ballistic missiles, armed with 1-megaton nuclear warheads.'

Panel 6
A demonically gleeful Benedito superimposed over various monitors showing nuclear blasts over various cities.
Caption: 'And so Farnsworth realized his plan to destroy all the holy cities of Islam, murdering more than 20 million people.
Caption: 'But that was just the beginning.'

Panel 7
A nuclear blast going off over London. In an inset, we see Benedito reacting in horror.
Caption: 'Within hours after the initial onslaught, nuclear hell descended on a dozen more cities.
Caption: 'London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Moscow, New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.'

Panel 8
Cut to Johanna lecturing.
Johanna: These 'dirty bombs' had been pre-positioned in these cities and designed for maximum destruction of life.
Johanna: They were clearly triggered by the earlier nuclear events, likely automatically, although historians to this day differ as to who had placed them.
Johanna: What is not disputed is that this 'Second Calamity' increased the death toll to more than 150 million people.