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First Seen: Fri 2015-04-17
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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!
Transcript For Strip 1075
Panel 1Murphy has taken off her rucksack and is reaching for something inside it. Nicole is barely able to speak but stammers anyway.
Nicole: Wha … how … why did ...
Murphy: There's not enough time to extricate him from that machinery safely.
Panel 2
Murphy has a 4-litre-sized bag in one hand, with the other she's easing Seamus' head into it. The hot blade has cauterized the neck so there's little bleeding.
Murphy: Seamus told me to bring a save-it-bag on my return.
Murphy: He didn't have time to explain why but now I understand.
Panel 3
The girls' attention is suddenly drawn to the doorway, through which we hear sounds of some commotion.
SFX: UNF!! CLANG! ARGH! HUFF! AUGH!
Panel 4
Nicole and Buford rush into the hallway, where they find Li and Nigel with blooded blades in their hands, and three guards' bodies on the floor.
Li: As I feared, they've established zinger suppression.
Nigel: Five more coming!
Panel 5
Nicole steps between them, with her trusty Tanfoglio, and fires off five shots. Li and Nigel flinch from the noise.
SFX: BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!!
Panel 6
The squad trots back the way they came up the corridor, with Li in the lead and the Beltapes taking up the rear. Murphy has the bag with Seamus' head in the crook of her left arm.
Li: You might have warned me about the noise.
Nicole: What?
Panel 7
The squad approaches the heavy door they'd burned and bent earlier. Nicole is firing three more shots back the way they came. Li and the Beltapes flinch again.
SFX: BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!!
Li: Couldn't you get a silencer for that thing?
Nicole: What?
Panel 8
The squad emerges on the other side of the heavy door.
Li (thoughtsend): We're all gonna be deaf before we get out of here.
Nicole (thoughtsend): I know, I shoulda got a silencer for my gun.
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