Strip 2401 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2023-01-30
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 2401
Panel 1In the village of Gruensk, an odd pair walk along: A lumbering giant and a normal-sized man with longish, wavy hair and a mustache. Both carrying the same bags we saw Li and William carrying on the previous page.
Giant: Why do I have to wear this ridiculous disguise, while you look so … dashing?
Mustache guy: Because the disguises work best when they conform to our actual sizes.
Mustache guy: And, I am dashing.
Panel 2
The pair continue walking.
Giant: You know, these holo-disguises can be seen through with the right tech.
Giant: And, our quarry likely has that.
Mustache: True ...
Panel 3
Another angle on the pair
Mustache: … But the locals don’t.
Mustache: This way we look like we come from maybe a few hundred klicks away rather than a few million light-years. Less likely to draw attention.
Panel 4
Another angle on the same scene. A pair of locals walks past, gawking a bit at the giant.
Giant: So you were saying?
Mustache: I said ‘less likely,’ not unlikely.
Mustache: But I guarantee we won’t generate the buzz our actual appearance would cause.
Panel 5
Two-shot of the pair
Giant: So how far to the inn?
Mustache: Pretty much the other side of town.
Mustache: But the route we’re walking gives us a good lay of the place, which may be of benefit later.
Panel 6
The pair approach the tavern. It is fully night now and the inn provides nearly all the illumination.
Mustache: Okay, this is the tavern.
Giant: Do we have reservations?
Mustache: I have a few, but no, I didn’t call ahead.
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