Strip 1241 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2015-12-18
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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 1241
Panel 1Alyss leads Bok and Zander through a gently down-sloping tunnel cut through rock. The walls are fairly smooth. Alyss is carrying a hand-torch.
Bok: What is this, an old mine?
Alyss: One of the oldest. Dug with lasers. Played-out a long time ago.
Panel 2
Cut to Diana cautiously entering the tunnel. She's putting on some goggles (for night vision).
Zander (OP): What did they mine here?
Alyss (OP): Mostly aluminum, some iron and tungsten.
Alyss: Raw materials for the cities you live in.
Panel 3
Alyss, Bok and Zander step into an open-walled elevator car. There's a large lever and two circular hand-cranks. Also, we can see a ladder running down the shaft next to the car.
Zander: This elevator still works?
Alyss: It does now. Took me a while to refurbish.
Alyss: Beats the hell out of climbing the ladders, though.
Panel 4
The lever has been moved to the 'up' position, and Bok and Alyss are turning the hand-cranks, while Zander clings to a railing. The torch has been placed in a slot designed for it.
Zander: Couldn't you refurbish the electric motors?
Alyss: Any electrical power this close to this surface could be detected.
Bok: What about your hand-torch?
Panel 5
Cut to Diana climbing down the ladder. The others' dialog balloons point below her.
Alyss (OP): Chemical luminescence. Undetectable by the grumps.
Bok: {snort!} Ha-ha! 'The Grumps.' That's funny.
Alyss: What do you call them?
Panel 6
Looking up the shaft, past Diana, we see another silhouetted figure looking down at her.
Bok (OP): Oh, 'the Bots,' usually.
Zander (OP): Or the 'Central Intelligence.'
Bok: Or, 'the shit-heads.'
Zander: {snort!}
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