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First Seen: Fri 2016-05-20
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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 1347
Panel 1Gomez confronts Diana, who is not intimidated.
Gomez: Hao did u noh dat? Dat wuz not inna nooz reportz.
Diana: I'm good at finding things out. It's a matter of using the right search strings, mostly.
Panel 2
Gomez and Diana.
Gomez: O yeh? Wot elss do u noh?
Diana: That 8 days before he died, he did a report about a quack doctor who was diagnosing people with cancers they didn't have, so he could charge for treatments.
Panel 3
Medium c/u on Diana, explaining.
Diana: To prepare, the day before he underwent a complete medical examination, and passed with flying colors. Aside from mild obesity, he was completely healthy.
Diana: The quack 'examined' him, told him he had cancer, and sold him some pills.
Diana: The pills turned out to be ordinary colon-cleansers, not cancer-blockers.
Diana: Marrón's report exposed the quack and has resulted in hundreds of law-suits against that fraudster.
Panel 4
Two-shot Gomez and Diana
Gomez: An' ur poynt?
Diana: Marrón's massive coronary – inconveniently distant from medical facilities – was so unlikely that it had to be induced, somehow.
Diana: It's more likely he was murdered.
Panel 5
Again, Gomez turns away, with a dismissive wave.
Gomez: Dat iz very imaginativ, but u hav no proof to back dat claim.
Gomez: Murder iz a siryus madder, Senhorita Martelli.
Panel 6
We see Gomez' back as his inner office door irises closed behind him. Diana is left to stand there and fume.
Gomez: Leef da investigatin to da professhunulz. In Oz, reputashuns arr jealous guarded.
Gomez: Do not go makin siryus accuzationz widout da facts to back dem up.
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