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First Seen: Mon 2021-11-15
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.
Kickstarter Success! [ May 13, 2025 ]
The Not-Safe-Space 2 Kickstarter Campaign has ended successfully. Thanks to all who pledged!
Now we get to wait 2 weeks while Kickstarter transmits the funds, and Scott can order the books, and send surveys to backers to get current e-mail addresses for the .PDF versions and mailing addresses for the physical books.
All of this should show up in June.
Transcript For Strip 2289
Panel 1Li starts relating the story from a cameo inset. Main panel shows a much earlier Bubbleopolis, with only five spheres.
Li: Two hundred fifty years ago – a bit less than half my lifetime – Novo Paolo was a much smaller city, but already thriving as a center of commerce and culture.
Panel 2
Cut back to the control room with Bok and Li.
Li: Turns out that when you set up a contractarian system that safeguards private property and contracts but otherwise leaves people alone, they can accomplish some amazing things.
Bok: You’re preaching to the choir here, Situ. I’m a ‘Venus World’ refugee.
Panel 3
Back to the story, Li speaks from the cameo inset. The main panel shows a silhouetted figure facing a bank of dour-looking people on monitors.
Li: Quite so. Anyway, the city’s success became an embarrassment for rulers of other worlds.
Li: Some considered themselves more ‘civilized;’ others simply saw us as a ripe melon ready to be harvested.
Panel 4
Switch view to show the person silhouetted. A broad-faced, mustachioed man who would look more at home in a 19th-Century (C.E.) boxing ring.
Caption (Li): ‘Even back then, the city was a tough nut to crack.
Li: ‘So, they forged an alliance led by one particularly ambitious rascal, Cornelius Barnhill.
Li: ‘It was Barnhill who would direct and lead the war against Novo Paolo.’
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