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First Seen: Mon 2023-03-20
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 2408
Panel 1POV looking at a ceiling as we see Jorge Ansari and Sergio Cooper looking down at the camera.
Tech caption: 2018499091:[restt]A49NUF-AHK14NX1934-GGBZR53/P008
Tech caption: 2018499092:[load ’cam’-’aud’-’kines’]
Tech caption: 2018499093:[pwr-on]
Panel 2
A new and improved Alyss sits up on a table, looking at Jorge. We see her from behind, so Jorge is on her left. They are in the same Pillars meeting room where we last saw Alyss.
Jorge: How do you feel?
Alyss: Jorge, I … A bit disoriented … Like I’m in a different body.
Panel 3
Alyss steadies herself with a hand on Sergio’s shoulder as she climbs off the table. She is larger now, half a head taller than Sergio.
Sergio: That’s because you ARE in a different body, Alyss.
Jorge: It’s the one you had made shortly before you left for your sabbatical on Nyumbani.
Panel 4
Alyss looks at her hands as Sergio discretely rubs the shoulder she had grasped.
Alyss: Yeah. Super-strong, wicked-fast. A walking weapon, pretty much.
Alyss: I had been feeling paranoid and … well, when I saw this result, I knew I needed an extended vacation.
Panel 5
Alyss turns to Sergio.
Alyss: Sergio, what’s our situation?
Sergio: The invaders keep funneling-in via that impregnable IGC Legation.
Sergio: If we can’t stop that, it’s only a matter of days before we’re done.
Panel 6
Jorge is collecting some small tools as he glances at Alyss
Jorge: I seem to recall your friends Hugo and Murphy were supposed to be helping us.
Jorge: So, where the hell are they?
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