Strip 945 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Thu 2014-10-16
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser
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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 945
Panel 1Technicians working on a nuclear weapon.
Caption: 'It was an open secret that Israel had a stockpile of nuclear weapons, as was revealed by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center.
Caption: 'Israel maintained a policy of 'nuclear ambiguity,' neither confirming nor denying reports that its stockpile ranged in size from 40 to 400 warheads.'
Panel 2
Map of the Middle East, hilighting the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Najaf, Karbala and Qom.
Caption: 'But for Farnswoth's purposes, he only needed six, one each for Islam's holiest cities: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Najaf, Karbala and Qom.
Caption: 'But he was also concerned with the Sufi Islam holy cities of Konya, Turkestan, Uqba, Harar, Alexandria, Touba, Ajmer, Pakpattan and Sylhet.'
Panel 3
Close-up of Theo, now in his 60s, looking evil.
Caption: 'Farnsworth understood that one of the 'Five pillars of Islam' was the hajj – a required once-in-a lifetime pilgrimage of all Muslims to the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca.
Caption: 'The destruction of Mecca would, he reasoned, destroy the foundation of Islam and the faith of its adherents.
Panel 4
Theo at the Israeli control center, looking suspicious.
Caption: 'The other cities were included in Farnsworth's scheme because they might become alternative locations for the hajj.
Caption: 'His vengeance-obsessed mind reasoned that if the hajj were made impossible, Islam itself would crumble and fall.'
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