Strip 1484 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-12-02
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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 1484
Panel 1Looking past Eithne, Murphy and Hugo at Captain Pbbbbbbbt and lieutenants on the screen.
CP: One thing that is puzzling us. We see three of you on our monitor ...
CP: And yet our sensors indicate only one life-entity.
Hugo (thoughtsend): Uh-oh.
Panel 2
Murphy, 'splaining, gesturing towards Eithne.
Murphy: Our culture is very … diverse.
Murphy: Some, like myself, are machines, made from metals and plastics.
Murphy: Others, like Eithne here, are … bio-forms, grown from … seeds.
Panel 3
Now Murphy is gesturing towards Hugo.
Murphy: And still others, like Hugo here, were once bio-forms but become machines when their bodies cannot be repaired.
Murphy: In our culture, machine people and bio-form people have equal legal status. I am Captain of our ship because we agreed to this.
Panel 4
Captain Pbbbbbbbt and lieutenants, seen on the Causa Sui viewscreen.
CP: This is interesting. We have no 'machine people' such as you.
CP: Your technology must be very advanced.
CP: We invite you to visit our ship during our transit to Pbbtptlptl-pbpbt.
Panel 5
Hugo, Murphy and Eithne.
Hugo (thoughtsend): I should be the one to go.
Murphy (thoughtsend): Why is that?
Hugo: For one thing, I'm the most paranoid among us.
Hugo: Also, I can learn more quickly than either of you.
Panel 6
Same shot. Eithne is a bit surprised.
Murphy (thoughtsend): Your logic is sound … in this instance.
Murphy (aloud): We accept your invitation, and will send Hugo to visit.
Hugo (thoughtsend): I rather expected an argument there.
Murphy (thoughtsend): Too late to change your mind.
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