Today on Quantum Vibe: A few choice words Strip 2142 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2020-09-07
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.
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
Alex is lying on a different floor in pretty much the same position as we last saw Otto. He's waking up, raising his head groggily. His hair has been shaved back from his temples, and we can see a tiny wound on each side.
Caption: Nowhere in the City:
Zondra (OP, electronic): Waking up so soon? Well, good.
Zondra: I have a few choice words for you, Senhor Stern.
Panel 2
Still a bit groggy, Stern sits up on the floor, starts looking around.
Zondra (OP, electronic): You have been a butt-load of trouble for me.
Zondra: You're so damn stubborn, but orders are orders.
Zondra: And I was ordered to find out what your superiors know about us.
Panel 3
Alex glances up towards a door with a window set in it, through which we can see an annoyed Zondra.
Zondra (electronic): And either they don't know anything, or you don't.
Zondra: I tried scopolamine, amobarbitol, rohypnol, even 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate.
Zondra: Finally I had to access your cortical implant directly.
Panel 4
Alex is feeling for the wounds on his temples, noticing them for the first time with his increasing awareness.
Zondra (OP, electronic): Brain surgery was never my forte but there's a surgeon in Pandemonium who will do anything for the right price.
Zondra: So you cost me money as well as time, you absolute prick.