Strip 1878 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2018-11-26
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Gus Mendes
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Creepy moves in darkness dares discovery.
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 1878
Panel 1Stefan stands by work station. The station consists of an upright casket, the insides of which roughly outline a human form, but everything is modular and adjustible. Stefan himself appears to be a cyborg – part marchine, part biological human. He stands straight, his nose in the air, looking like an effete machine-queen. But when he speaks ...
Caption: Stefan was not quite what I expected:
Stefan: Oi! Annabelle said me next appointment was wi' bios but I thought she were pullin' me leg.
Stefan: If yer looking for … ah … cosmetical surgery I can most heartily recommend Bartolo's Beautysculpting Boutique, onna fourth level.
Panel 2
Areum, Diana, and Stefan
Diana: I'm just here to ask you about a former customer.
Diana: Her name was Hayami. She worked for Gianturco Guaranta, and she were … was murdered a bit more'n a year ago.
Stefan: Aye, that were an awful tragedy for sure. That sexy giantess were wunna me favorites, ya know.
Panel 3
Diana and Stefan, conversing as Areum looks on.
Caption: Stefan's weirdly accented dialect of Looniespeak was throwing me off.
Caption: But he was a talker, so I spent the next 15 minutes hearing about all the gossip Hayami shared with him …
Caption: But very little of it seemed relevant to the case, until ...
Panel 4
Diana lights up at Stefan's words.
Stefan: Ah, but there was one, Belbenoit. That's the one she hated like a dinion hates a zylocone.
Caption: 'Belbenoit'! Apparently, he was someone Hayami encountered at one of her clandestine meetings.
Caption: I never did learn what the hell a dinion or a zylocone are.
Web-comics Scott Reads
SPACETRAWLERGrrl Power
Schlock Mercenary
Unsounded
Diesel Sweeties
Girl Genius
XKCD
Drive
Day By Day
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Questionable Content
Gunnerkrigg Court
Something * Positive
Oglaf (NSFW)
Trekker
HELM
POWERNAP
For news and reviews:
The Beat
Bleeding Cool
Comics Worth Reading
Framing Graphics © 2024 Big Head Press