Today on Quantum Vibe: Pondering meaning Strip 2049 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2020-01-24
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
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.
Panel 1
Establishing shot of the deCleyre mansion.
Caption: The deClayre Mansion, in the Magón Sphere.
Lorelei (from the mansion): So how long are you going to just lay around and mope, Otto?
Otto (from mansion): Oh, until I work up the courage to suicide, I guess.
Panel 2
Otto's bedroom. He's laying face-down in the bed. Is striding over too him, looking annoyed.
Otto: Without Diana how can my life have any meaning?
Lorelei: Meaning?
Lorelei: You want some meaning in your life?
Panel 3A
Lorelei grabs him by his shirt collar, lifting him off the bed. ….
Lorelei: Here's something to ponder, kiddo.
Panel 3B
… and slaps him hard across the face.
SFX: Swack!!
Panel 4
Now Otto is kneeling, leaning back on one arm on his bed, looking shocked and with a big red mark on his cheek. Lorelei is telling him how the cow ate the cabbage.
Lorelei: You think you've suffered a loss? You still have a home! A family! Your health!
Lorelei: There is a multitude of people here who have lost EVERYTHING.
Lorelei: You want some meaning, get off your whiny butt and go help them!