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First Seen: Mon 2022-07-18
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!
Transcript For Strip 2358
Panel 1Kāng is whirls up his electro-shield again, as Horton peeks around the edge and returns fire.
Kāng: They keep coming as fast as we can drop them.
Horton: Faster, at this rate. And there are other portals in the building.
SFX: Multiple ZANGs
Panel 2
Kāng strikes the SEIGAN NO KAME / KO GASUMI pose again, sending a lightning bolt at the portals.
Kāng: I didn’t want to do this, but there’s no better choice.
SFX: (small) KRACK! (gigantic) BOOM
Panel 3
The double-portal is a smoking ruin, with smoking bodies piled before it. Kāng and Horton bracket the panel, looking at the destruction.
Kāng: Destroying assets is such a terrible waste.
Horton: I’m getting reports from the other teams ...
Panel 4
Kāng and Horton are now moving back up the corridor at a trot. Horton has a hand to his ear.
Horton: Azar, Boaz and Delaney all reporting increasing numbers of hostiles.
Horton: Ping reports he and Gupta and Bridwell are holding their own.
Panel 5
Kāng and Horton run back to Ping and co, who are now crouching on the other side of a bit larger pile of dead invaders, shooting the last of a new group that had just approached them.
SFX: 3 ZANGs
Kelso: Sir? We heard two thunderbolts.
Kāng: We had to destroy the main portals.
Panel 6
Kāng, Kelso, Ping, Horton
Kāng: And it looks like we’ll have to destroy the others as well.
Kāng (thought): That is, if we can get to them before we’re overwhelmed.
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