Today on Quantum Vibe: Calling for back-up Strip 478 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2012-11-02
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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!
Panel 1
Nicole blocks a roundhouse left from Tough 3. Meanwhile, Tough 1 is up and advancing.
Nicole (thought): Feek! I'm in over my head!
Nicole (toughtsend): BUFORD!!!
Panel 2
Cut to the recovery room, where Buford, now reclined on her back (with her anysuit pulled up and activated) viewing something on her borrowed Screen. She reacts with a jerk to Nicole's plea which comes in via the Beltape's earpiece.
Nicole (OP thoughtsend): HELP!!!
Buford: Nicole! What's wrong?
Panel 3
Buford leaps out of her bed, past a protesting nurse.
Nurse: You're not done yet!
Nicole (thoughtsend): I'M GETTING MY ARSE KICKED!
Panel 4
Buford barrels out the front door to the clinic, galloping on all fours like a rampaging gorilla.
Buford: Where are you?
Nicole (thoughtsend): Use your visor! Follow my signal!
Panel 5
Buford, now with her visor on, bounds up towards the roof of a low building
Buford: I'M COMING BABY!
Panel 6
Back in the alley, Nicole is judo-throwing Tough 1 while Tough 3 is leaping at her. Tough 2 isn't in the picture, but we can see Ventura huddled against a nearby wall.
Nicole: Ventura! Some help here?
Ventura: I --- I can't ...
Panel 7
Tough 2 has come up from behind Nicole, grabbed her with both hands on her waist, and lifted her over his head.
Nicole: Feek!
Tough 2: Takin' out the crash.
Panel 8
Tough 2 hurls Nicole into the debris pile at the back of the alley, where she lands with crash.
SFX: CRASH!