Today on Quantum Vibe: Useless Strip 1567 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2017-04-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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
Present-Murphy in cameo segues us back to the story. In the main panel, Murphy is looking in on Hugo, who is sitting hunched over on the deck, surrounded by bits of machinery.
Murphy (cameo): While Eithne was getting settled-in at her jail, Hugo was nearly at wit's end trying to repair the Displacement Drive.
Murphy (in story): Hugo –?
Hugo: It's useless. I'm useless.
Panel 2
Murphy has stepped into the room, close to Hugo. He looks completely despondent.
Murphy: What do you mean?
Hugo: I have completely disassembled the Displacement Drive, and re-assembled it.
Hugo: Twice. It still doesn't work.
Murphy: That doesn't make sense.
Panel 3
Murphy looks worried.
Hugo: You know what also doesn't make sense? The drives in the Hoppers don't work now, either. Even Eithne's log-cocks and micro-hoppers are useless.
Murphy: So we can't even send word back home?
Hugo: Don't try to cheer me up.