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First Seen: Wed 2018-03-21
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Gus Mendes
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Creepy moves in darkness dares discovery.
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 1773
Panel 1Diana is on foot again, her flyer case slung over her shoulder, as she walks through a concourse.
Caption: I already knew I wouldn't be admitted to speak with Fritch at his office.
Caption: I'd need to find him at some place more accessible, where his guard would be down.
Panel 2
Diana enters a shop with a sign reading 'The Funky Elephant' complete with a graphic of an anthropomorphic elephant smoking a hookah.
Caption: Fritch's credit records indicated he frequented a certain hookah den.
Caption: Cannabis seemed an odd vice for a security manager, but I've seen plenty of stranger things in the City.
Panel 3
Diana walks through the bar. Several patrons are seated around tables each featuring a large hookah with several smoking tubes attached.
Caption: Back on Zytemonde, the cannabis we had was only suitable for making hemp. No psychoactive effects.
Caption: We got high on illicit fermented grains and something we called 'tartar sauce.'
Panel 4
Medium close-up on Diana, eyes narrowed as she seeks her quarry.
Caption: Did I partake? You bet your ass I did. Zytemonde was fucking boring, at least until the last few weeks I was there.
Caption: I avoided the 'scene' here in the City mainly because I had so much work to do.
Caption: And now my work has brought me into it.
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