Strip 2604 First Seen: Mon 2026-09-07
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
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.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Transcript For Strip 2604
Panel 1Li, Julius and Earl
Li: Wait … a 250 hectare ANT FARM?
Earl: Heh-heh. I know that sounds kinda crazy.
Panel 2
Li, Julius and Earl
Julius: Er … just how big are those ants?
Earl: Yer a perceptive feller, ain’t ya?
Earl: These ain’t those typical one-centimeter bugs.
Panel 3
Focus on Earl as he explains.
Earl: These are a special hybrid of Texas leaf-cutter ants, carpenter ants, and titan beetles.
Earl: Basically, they eat rocks, turning them into piles of soft loam.
Earl: That loam mixed with some nitrogen makes great soil for growing all kinds’a crops.
Panel 4
Li, Julius and Earl
Julius: More than a third of my land is rocky.
Li: Mine, too. But, couldn’t creatures like that be potentially dangerous?
Panel 5
Li, Julius and Earl
Earl: I got some idears how t’ better control ‘em, fer which I’d like to consult with you and your missus.
Earl: Could we have a get-together soon-like? My family is eager to meet yours.
Panel 6
Li, Julius and Earl, Li and Earl touch fingers to transfer information.
Li: I think that can be arranged.
Li: Let’s all meet at my place this fiveday. Here’s the location and access codes.
Earl: Aw-reet !
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