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First Seen: Mon 2015-05-18
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 1096
The end of Volume 3: Seamus also concludes the grand story arc which we began serializing way back in January of 2011. I wish to personally thank my long-term readers for staying with me these past fifty-two months, as well as those who discovered the strip later and have come along with me this far.Now, while the strip began serializing four years-plus ago, it was in development for a great deal longer than that. The original seed of the idea came way back in late 2000, after I’d been laid off from my 11-year stint at Interplay and was wondering what my own future would hold ...
The story behind quantum vibe is really a story unto itself. And so, with my readers’ kind indulgence, I’d like to spend the rest of this week relating some of the story behind the story:
I enjoyed playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, which was a turn-based empire-
building game in the Civilization mode, taking place on a fictional planet being colonized by humans.
The game included a novella which offered a back-story explaining how the colonists had divided into six competing factions, thus creating the conflict required for gameplay. I had in mind developing a galactic empire-building game, ‘Conquest of the Milky Way,’ and began writing a back-story of my own.
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