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Strip 1499 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: Difficult to explain
Strip 1499 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-12-23
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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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.

Quantum Vibe: Château Périlleux - By Scott Bieser w/Lea Jean Badellas & Gus Mendes

What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

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!

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Transcript For Strip 1499

Panel 1
Let's do another exterior shot of the starships Pbbttppbt-fff and Causa Sui, cruising side-by-side. Rear view, showing the system's twin suns in the background.
CP (from Pbbttppbt-fff): We have shared a great deal of information about ourselves with you now.
CP: It is time that you shared more about yourselves.
CP: Such as where you are from, and how you travel great distances.
Panel 2
Closer 2-shot of CP and Hugo.
Hugo: Yes, of course your point is quite reasonable.
Hugo: It's just that we have never before encountered a space-faring race in our explorations.
Hugo: The consequences for our own society could be quite … unpredictable.
Hugo: Can you understand our caution?
Panel 3
The entourage continues down the corridor.
CP: Consider that this is our first contact with you, who clearly possess technology far advanced from ours.
CP: We know nothing about your culture. Despite your assurances, you could be advance scouts for an invasion force.
CP: Or, you could be allied with our adversaries.
Panel 4
Now a suddenly excited Hugo stops and turns toward CP.
Hugo: 'Adversaries?'
Hugo: You mean there are other space-faring civilizations here besides your own?
Hugo: Is there a common ancestry, or did you evolve separately, or ...
Panel 5
CP holds up a hand in the classic 'talk to the hand' gesture.
CP: Enough! I have said too much.
CP: If you wish this discussion to continue, I must insist you answer our questions.
CP: Otherwise there can be no trust between us.

Panel 6
Hugo, appearing defeated, starts talking.
Hugo: Very well, Captain.
Hugo: We do indeed come from a distant galaxy. We … that is, my people, have explored several of them. We have colonized worlds in many.
Hugo: As for how we get around, well, that will be a bit difficult to explain ...

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