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Strip 1458 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: Unlikely versus unlikelier
Strip 1458 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-10-28
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.

Quantum Vibe: Château Périlleux - By Scott Bieser w/Lea Jean Badellas & Gus Mendes

What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

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!

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Transcript For Strip 1458

Panel 1
It's Eithne's turn to contribute.
Eithne: Well, there's a bigger issue with a warp drive, for us anyway.
Eithne: It presupposes a space-faring civilization that invented and uses it.
Eithne: And one that isn't us.
Panel 2
Three-shot, as they all ponder the implications.
Murphy: That would be a first, all right.
Murphy: In all our explorations, we've never discovered an existing alien technological civilization.
Murphy: Only a few ruins of some very ancient ones, who disappeared without a trace.
Panel 3
Shift focus to Hugo, keeping the other two in the shot.
Hugo: We've barely explored two percent of the known universe, but that still covers a lot of, well, territory.
Hugo: Which hypothesis is less likely: that someone has made a practical warp-drive, and that we've found a civilization capable of creating it ...
Hugo: Or the space/time distortion patterns are some sort of natural phenomenon?
Panel 4
Let's do an exterior shot of Causa Sui, just to break up the monotony.
Murphy (from ship): Well, Mr. Galvéz, if we think it's aliens, then our first order of business should be to take Eithne home before we investigate further.
Eithne (from ship): LIKE HELL!!
Panel 5
Back in the control room, Eithne squares off against Murphy, who is trying to placate her.
Eithne: YOU WILL NOT DITCH ME NOW!
Murphy: Honey, we're not 'ditching' you.
Murphy: But sapient aliens could be far more dangerous than even a hypernova.

Panel 6
Eithne stands her ground. Murphy solicits aid from Hugo, who refuses to jump in.
Eithne: And also far more interesting!
Murphy: Hugo, can you reason with her?
Hugo: Oh, she's right, aliens are far more interesting than a hypernova.

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