Strip 1096 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2015-05-18
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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 1096
The end of Volume 3: Seamus also concludes the grand story arc which we began serializing way back in January of 2011. I wish to personally thank my long-term readers for staying with me these past fifty-two months, as well as those who discovered the strip later and have come along with me this far.Now, while the strip began serializing four years-plus ago, it was in development for a great deal longer than that. The original seed of the idea came way back in late 2000, after I’d been laid off from my 11-year stint at Interplay and was wondering what my own future would hold ...
The story behind quantum vibe is really a story unto itself. And so, with my readers’ kind indulgence, I’d like to spend the rest of this week relating some of the story behind the story:
I enjoyed playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, which was a turn-based empire-
building game in the Civilization mode, taking place on a fictional planet being colonized by humans.
The game included a novella which offered a back-story explaining how the colonists had divided into six competing factions, thus creating the conflict required for gameplay. I had in mind developing a galactic empire-building game, ‘Conquest of the Milky Way,’ and began writing a back-story of my own.
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