Today on Quantum Vibe: Splat onto the core Strip 832 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2014-05-13
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
Exterior shot of Cissonius blazing towards the sunlit face of Jupiter, which looms very large in the panel.
Mineola (from inside the boat): You don't notice until you get this close how deep and textured the cloud layers are.
Panel 2
Looking out at Jupiter's cloud-tops through one of the lounge windows. We see the backs of Dorothy Willis, Nicole, and Mineola Stinson seated on the sofa directly facing the windows. There are other seats flanking the sofa, angled towards the windows, but we only barely see the men (Fred Bellaire, Carl Hendry)
Dorothy: Imagine what it would be like to fly through those clouds.
Mineola: Or fall into them – it seems like one could fall forever.
Panel 3
Reverse view to show Mineola, Nicole, and Dorothy.
Nicole: You'd fall for about an hour through cloud layers and winds that get progressively hotter and more violent, and finally if the pressure didn't crush you first you'd go splat onto the core of metallic hydrogen.
Panel 4
Mineola and Dorothy both regard Nicole coolly, who for her part doesn't seem to care.
Mineola: So unfortunate to loose one's sense of romance at such a young age.
Dorothy: I think I've had as much romance as I can stand lately.