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First Seen: Mon 2019-07-15
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 1977
Panel 1A breathless Otto is emerging into the boutique again, his hand alongside his face to show he's calling someone over the network.
Caption: Otto had to get clear of whatever was blocking the telenet signal so he could call for help.
Caption: As soon as he was able, he called his boss, Lorelei deClayre, who immediately contacted Alyss.
Panel 2
In the center, Alyss is barking commands while appearing to have six arms pointed in various directions. Minions are running in various directions.
Caption: The way Otto described it, Alyss 'went into warlord mode,' mobilizing every employee, family member, and friend she could wrangle, to search the city for me.
Caption: He made a point of letting me know that Lorelei was working on my behalf, too.
Panel 3
Scene in a bar, some of the patrons are watching a 3D viewer wherein our old friend Byron Tchaikovsky is holding forth, with an image of Diana (as she normally appears, not in that ridiculous makeup from before) appearing over his shoulder.
Caption: Among other things she got Byron Tchaikovsky to sound the alarm.
Caption: Byron's netstream reaches more than 25 other worlds besides Bubbleopolis.
Caption: Thus I had become an inter-galactic cause celebre.
Panel 4
In the labyrinth under the shopping mall, Otto has led Dong Gyeon-Hoon and Areum to where Wook's body was still cradled in Diana's Bubb.
Caption: And despite all the commotion, Otto remembered to contact Dong and lead him to where Wook's body had been left behind.
Caption: Dong has offered Otto free Tae Kwon-Leep lessons. I told Otto it would be better than a boot to the head.
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