Today on Quantum Vibe: How Moe escaped Strip 749 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Thu 2014-01-16
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke 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.
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!
Panel 1
A crowded hospital ward, with dealthy-ill looking patients in their beds.
Caption (Moe): By the time we'd gotten settled the shielding had deteriorated to the point where a lot of people were coming down with cancers and other radiation-related diseases.
Panel 2
Young Moe and her mother walking briskly along a darkened corridor. Mother is carrying a suitcase and Moe, who she is hurrying along, has her own, smaller bag.
Moe: Father could not leave Io, and mother would not abandon him, but they determined to save me.
Moe: When my mother awoke me in the middle of third shift had me quickly dress and then hustled me to the spaceport, I wasn't told what was in store.
Panel 3
Moe's mother waves goodbye at a large bay window as we see the spaceship bearing Moe departing.
Moe: Mother had family on Ganymede, and just enough funds to pay my passage there.
Moe: She promised that eventually she and Father would follow me.
Panel 4
Triptych: Closeup on Moe as she expresses by turns outrage, sadness, and a low rage.
Moe: But three years later my mother died from pancreatic cancer – in this day and age!
Moe: Father committed suicide a hundred days after.
Moe: And the mercorpuscles refuse to even admit there's a problem!