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First Seen: Wed 2011-06-29
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - 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 138
Panel 1The visitors' area at the jail. A row of windows separated by partitions, with visitors on one side and prisoners on the other. No visible phone handsets. Two guards are visible at one end of the room. Bomba (Buford's mom) sits (uncomfortably, in a chair designed for longer legs) at one of the windows, talking to Buford, seated on the other side of the glass.
Bomba: I just don't know what to say, except tat I warned you about sneaking out.
Buford: I know, momma.
Panel 2
Looking from Buford's side, we see Bomba in the window.
Bomba: Te bail is te same as your likely fine – 13,000 miltons.
Buford: 13,000! I can't belief it. Can we get a lawyer?
Panel 3
Medium close-up on Bomba, looking very sad.
Bomba: Tey tell me if we can't pay te fine, it's 60 days in jail.
Bomba: Buford, 13,000 miltons is almost our entire safings since we came to Luna.
Panel 4
Bomba is sadly turning to leave. Buford can be seen in the window looking betrayed.
Bomba: I'm sorry, Buford, but it's best for te family tat you serf your sentence. Poppa says you need to learn a lesson.
Buford: Momma? Are you joking? Momma?
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