Strip 1018 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2015-01-28
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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!
Transcript For Strip 1018
Panel 1Nicole and Murphy are in an ante-room to the main hangar. Next to them, on a movable cradle/platform, is the prototype they've designed and built.
Murphy: The first trans-universal probe. Maybe.
Nicole: Ugly as sin. I wish you'd have let me tweak the design for aesthetics.
Panel 2
The platform, with the probe, trundles through an airlock door.
Murphy: It doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to work.
Nicole: And if it works, this ugly construction will be in textbooks for the next millennium.
Panel 3
The girls have moved over to a control console. We can see the probe on the monitor screen, now positioning in the main hangar.
Nicole: I don't see why we have to send it out into space.
Murphy: A reasonable precaution. We don't know what will happen when it activates.
Panel 4
The girls looking up at the monitor.
Nicole: You mean it could explode?
Murphy: Or perhaps create a micro-singularity. Or disrupt the atomic forces, warp dimensions, immamentize the eschaton, or otherwise cause a very bad day for us.
Nicole: I like your optimism.
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