Strip 1779 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2018-04-04
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 1779
Panel 1Diana is walking through the mercado concourse, carrying her flyer-case as usual. Her hair is now back to normal, but she still looks a bit tired, bags under eyes.
Caption: Fortunately I also carry a hairbrush in my coat pocket.
Caption: My coat is awesome. It has lots of pockets, and I carry a lot of stuff, but it doesn't weigh me down.
Caption: It was a gift from Monty, my first real friend here in the city.
Panel 2
She is pausing in front of the same RPLD storefront we saw way back in strip 005. She's reading something on a window sign.
Caption: I knew I wasn't in any shape to interview people.
Caption: But I've walked by this place at least 50 times, and I've gotten curious.
Caption: And apparently there's someone speaking here.
Panel 3
Inside the storefront, she is greeted by a Conehead woman standing behind a counter.
Conehead woman: Bonne après-midi! Comment puis-je vous aider ?
Diana: Ah, well, I understand you have … ah … Zéphyrine Aziz speaking here and I'd hoped to listen-in.
Conehead woman: In the back, past the red door.
Panel 4
Diana has entered a back room, arranged as a small meeting-hall with a raised dias. She looks across a sea of variously-shaped heads at Aziz giving forth, as a pair of Coneheads stand to either side behind her. A few other Coneheads clustered near a rear exit. Aziz is tall, lithe, dark-skinned, beautiful.
Caption: Aziz had already started when I arrived.
Caption: The crowd was a lot more mixed than I expected. Furries, Classics, Trans, and a cluster of Coneheads.
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