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First Seen: Wed 2015-04-29
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly 100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]
The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?
These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.
After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!
Transcript For Strip 1083
Panel 1Li and Nicole enter a spartan-looking room. About 5 meters square, plain metal walls, another door at the far end. Near that door stand five people of various configurations wearing sack-cloths and hats with bones stuck through them. The 'Boneheads.' They each have a simple chair behind them, and two more chairs have been arranged in front, facing them. The only other furniture in the room is a table upon which sits a couple of water pitchers and drinking tumblers. There is also a large viewscreen on one wall, currently displaying an external view of L-5 City. One of the Boneheads gestures towards the two chairs.
Bonehead 1: Welcome to the Abode Humble. Please be seated.
Bonehead 1: Would you like some water?
Panel 2
Li and Nicole take their seats.
Li: Er … yes, please.
Li (thoughtsend): They're not exactly what I expected.
Nicole (thoughtsend): I've heard stories, but I know what you mean.
Panel 3
Medium shot of Nicole as an android hands her a glass of water.
Nicole: (thoughtsend): The L-5 City founders wanted to prevent the Muc Ar Foulain Board of Directors from becoming as corrupt as other governing bodies.
Nicole: (thoughtsend): There are a variety of safe-guards – a restrictive charter, double-blind trusts, prohibitions against outside compensation – but I guess enforced humility was considered a key psychological factor.
Panel 4
Looking past Li and Nicole at the directors.
Bonehead 1: As a courtesy we advise you that this conversation is being recorded by an independent agency.
Li (thoughtsend): Also, a degree of transparency, I suppose.
Bonehead 1: Shall we begin?
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