Strip 1030 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2015-02-13
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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.
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Transcript For Strip 1030
Panel 1The girls are standing in front of still yet another version of the trans-dimensional probe prototype near the hangar airlock.
Caption: Five days later:
Murphy: Well, at least it's pretty.
Nicole: Pretty cool, if I do say so myself.
Panel 2
The girls standing before the tracking monitor as before, except that Nicole is at the controls. We can see the probe coasting to altitude
Murphy: Probe coasting to 20,000 klicks in 3 … 2 … 1 …
Nicole: Engaging breach engine.
Panel 3A
Medium shot of the probe surrounded by a strong electric flash.
Nicole (OP) What!
Panel 3B
Empty space where the probe was.
Nicole (OP) YES!
Panel 4
Nicole is hopping with excitement. (In 2 gravs she can hop pretty high.) Murphy is still calm.
Nicole: We did it! We did it!
Murphy: Not so fast. Did you expect that flash?
Panel 5
Nicole pauses in her celebration. Murphy is looking at the monitor.
Nicole: Uh, no, not really …
Murphy: It was a 5 kilo-watt broad-band radiation pulse. I'd hate to be standing next to that when it happened.
Panel 6
Nicole has arms crossed, Murphy has hands on hips.
Nicole: It should be a simple matter to dampen that effect in future tests.
Murphy: I should hope so. More displays like that could bring unwanted attention to this planetoid.
Nicole: We'll see after it returns.
Murphy: IF it returns.
Panel 7
The girls are watching the monitor as the probe reappears in another flash.
Caption: Five minutes later:
Murphy: Damn. I hope no one noticed that.
Nicole: The inverse-square law is our friend.
Nicole: Let's see what the recorder caught.
Panel 8
The girls are looking at the monitor (OP) in puzzlement.
Nicole: What the … shuck!
Murphy: This doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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