Strip 1489 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-12-09
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!
Transcript For Strip 1489
Panel 1Murphy and Eithne are looking at a floating holoscreen projected in front of them. In it they can see Hugo flanked by two of the aliens, smiling and waving.
Hugo (electronic): As you can see, I made it here safe and sound.
Murphy: Run a systems check to be sure everything works.
Murphy: Especially, Eithne's enhancement.
Panel 2
Hugo on the screen, Murphy, Eithne.
Eithne: So, what did it feel like?
Hugo: Like reality around me dissolved into random bits … then a brief black-out …
Hugo: … and then the bits resolved again into where I am now.
Panel 3
Aboard the alien vessel, Hugo stands before a wall-monitor on which we can see Murphy and Eithne. One of the aliens is standing near Hugo. Dialog translated throughout.
Hugo: Well, keep the home-fires burning for me. I'm promised a tour of our new friends' ship.
Murphy: Don't forget to write.
Eithne: Bring me a teddy-bear.
Panel 4
Hugo with the aliens, one of whom is Captain Pbbbbbbbt.
CP: 'Enhancement'? 'Home-fires'? 'Write'? Is this some sort of code?
Hugo: Jokes. Referencing old customs, not easy to explain.
Hugo: Humor can be very difficult to understand across different cultures.
Panel 5
Captain Pbbbbbbbt and Hugo walk along a corridor, with two of her officers trailing.
CP: We do have humor, and we tell each other jokes.
Hugo: Indeed, as you do have words for 'humor' and 'jokes.'
CP: For example, what did the Pfbrrrt-pbbf say to the boot-maker?
Panel 6
The group continues down the corridor.
Hugo: Difficult to guess, as 'Pfbrrt-pbbf' has no word in my language.
CP: Well, she said, 'Re-enforce the toes so I can kick the rocks out of my boyfriend.'
Hugo: Er … and?
CP: Clearly the joke loses something in the translation.
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