Strip 1319 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2016-04-12
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 1319
Panel 1Sargon, Alyss and Bok. Alyss and Bok are both taking a sip of their drinks.
Sargon: So, one thing I've been wondering ...
Sargon: Those 19 Venus worlds that failed within 100 years … and the six still going ...
Sargon: What made the difference between those that failed and those that linger?
Panel 2
Alyss.
Alyss: Well, some would say this is my bias speaking, but ...
Alyss: The first 19 worlds were governed by humans. The super-computers were only used as tools to prescribe capital and consumer production and distribution goals.
Alyss: But when you take money out of society, it gets replaced by power-politics.
Alyss: Political goals super-ceded economic ones, and those worlds' material wealth suffered accordingly. The wrong goods were produced, distribution channels broke down, and so forth.
Alyss: The six remaining Venus worlds are run like Zytemonde.
Panel 3
Sargon, Alyss and Bok, who is looking thoughtful as he listens.
Sargon: So the only way a money-less economy can work at all is with a self-less machine as totalitarian overlord?
Alyss: Pretty much, it appears.
Bok: Woah, that's more or less what my father told me, before he was taken away.
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