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First Seen: Sun 2023-05-14
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 2416
Panel 1New scene: In the Pillars’ conference room: Alyss, Jorge, Enrique, Kofi, and Hugo (who stands in the background)
Caption: Speaking of the Pillars:
Kofi: So where is de Cleyre?
Enrique: She may not be able to attend.
Panel 2
Cut to show the de Cleyre mansion being attacked by a squadron of Invaders
Enrique (inset): Her home is under continued assault and she doesn’t want to leave it, even though the defenses are mostly automated.
Jorge: Well, she’s the only one of us who never experienced a war.
Panel 3
Back to the four remaining Pillars. Kofi jerks a thumb towards Hugo.
Alyss: We’ll have to proceed in her absence.
Jorge: We should re-think the traditional rule for in-person meetings.
Kofi: What about HIM?
Panel 4
Alyss, Kofi, Hugo et al. Hugo is doing his silly grin and hand-wave.
Alyss: With Albert gone and Kāng Min-Chèng in hospital, Hugo is the best military strategist we have.
Kofi: If you say so, Alyss.
Panel 5
Alyss, Kofi, Hugo, Jorge, Enrique, Hugo
Alyss: Don’t disappoint me, Hugo.
Hugo: Well for one thing, I brought a new, more powerful capital ship in our fleet. I named her ‘Polyphemus.’
Alyss: Cool name. By the way, where is Murphy?
Panel 6
Cut to Polyphemus zapping Invader vessels which are attacking the SchildHaus.
Hugo: Oh, aboard Polyphemus, amusing herself by defending your Schildhaus from the invaders.
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