Strip 434 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2012-09-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Transcript For Strip 434
Panel 1Flash-back, memory panel. A different-looking Tong is confronted by a solemn-looking physician.
Caption: 75 years earlier:
Physician: I’m afraid the damage was far too extensive. Only your mother remains alive, and just barely
Physician: She wishes to speak with you. I'm afraid she doesn't have much time.
Panel 2
Tong rushes to his mother's bedside. She is a mass of bandages and tubes, her face barely visible.
Tong: Mother --!
Tong's mother: Oh Xie-Po, I'm sorry it has come to this. But with the accident --
Tong's mother: I'm afraid our family is down to your Uncle Po, yourself, and Bo-Nu.
Panel 3
Two-shot of Tong and his mother. Tong is mildly shocked by his mother's words.
Tong's mother: You must promise me you will take care of your cousin, watch over him.
Tong: But mother! Bo-Nu is an imbecile!
Panel 4
Tong and his mother. Tong is looking bitter, but accepting of his charge.
Tong's mother: Medical science is advancing, Xie-Po. Perhaps some day they can ...
Tong: What was it Uncle Po always said? 'You cannot fix stupidity.'
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