Strip 1257 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-01-15
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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 1257
Panel 1The kids are wide-eyed in mixed excitement and fear.
Bok: That was no elevator we were in! That was ...
Zander: A Murphy Capsule!
Diana: But how did it get through Zytemonde's Oresme Shield?
Panel 2
Medium shot of Michael, glancing sideways at the kids, dismissively.
Michael: Oh, please.
Michael: Zytemode's technology is nearly 350 years out of date.
Michael: Getting through was child's play.
Panel 3
Bok is bedazzled. Zander looks at him curiously. Diana is getting angry.
Bok: So … the story my father told me really was true.
Zok: You doubted it?
Diana: This is just as I feared. Alien interference.
Diana: We've been kidnapped.
Panel 4
The kids argue.
Bok: Kidnapped? What do you mean? We were rescued!
Diana: We weren't given a choice!
Bok: You made your choice when you killed that Cor-bot, Diana.
Panel 5
Michael addresses Diana.
Michael: Am I to understand that you … murdered an arti-person?
Diana: That … 'arti-person' tried to arrest us, and fried Alyss' right hand.
Michael: Self-defense, then. But if you are here unwillingly, I can return you to the scene you departed.
Panel 6
Bok and Zander smirk a bit as Diana demurs.
Diana: Uh, no, that's okay. Here's good, for a while anyway.
Michael: Very well. Would you like some refreshments while you wait for the mistress to convalesce?
Michael: I could also put on some vids from your homeworld. They'll be half a year out-of-date, though.
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