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First Seen: Wed 2017-07-19
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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 1639
Panel 1Establishing shot of Campeche Rock. It's actually a collection of rocks – a largish rubble-pile, boulders from five to a hundred meters across, held together in a web of metallic conduits and dotted with various artificial structures and doo-dads. The Ha'arokk is small in the foreground before it.
Eithne (from ship): They should call it Campeche Rocks.
Ralf: That is the claim of a musical group called 'The Pedantics.'
Panel 2
Ralf and Eithne at the control console.
Ralf: The dockmaster should be contacting us ...
Dockmaster (electronic): Attention approaching Rorchark-class cruiser with no transponder!
Ralf: … Right on cue.
Dockmaster: You are directed to Slip 37. Slow to one-half kam/second and follow our beam.
Panel 3
Exterior shot of the Ha'arokk entering a large docking bay, through an entrance 10 times its width and height.
Eithne (from ship): At least they don't insist on taking flight control from us.
Ralf (from ship): That would be considered rude here. But if you bump into something the consequences may be dire.
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