Strip 1727 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2017-11-10
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 1727
Panel 1Back to Alyss' balcony with Hugo, Alyss and Murphy
Alyss: And that was that?
Murphy: Pretty much. She did say if she accomplished her mission ahead of schedule she'd come back immediately rather than stick around.
Alyss: She'll get lonely!
Panel 2
Close 2-shot of Alyss and Murphy on the left, a memory-bubble area on the right containing a happy Eithne along with two somewhat cat-like humanoids, a beautiful young female and beautiful male.
Murphy: Not so much. She said the Gamers are attending to her … creature comforts.
Murphy: She also wants to look for the other versions of Hugo and myself who went before us, but were never found.
Panel 3
Alyss smiles weakly, both resigned and hopeful.
Alyss: That's it, then. I guess I'll see her again after … 31.688 standard years.
Hugo: We've acquired permission to make occasional visits. Perhaps you can join us on one of them.
Alyss: I'd think I'd like that, at some point.
Panel 4
Start final truck outward. We've pulled back again to show the entire balcony.
Alyss: You never explained why your and Eithne's sexy fun-time was important to the story.
Murphy: And Hugo's inappropriate joke, as well.
Murphy: We think it was those gamer gods' attempts to contact us, before they reached Eithne.
Panel 5
Pull back farther to show the entire building, with our friends barely visible on the balcony.
Hugo: When they try to 'reach' us all they can do is stimulate our libidos.
Hugo: Perhaps because that's how they channel their influence through biological sapients.
Alyss: I hope Eithne understands that angle.
Panel 6
Pull farther back to show Alyss' home as one among several buildings in Oz. Vehicles and bubbs whizzing about.
Hugo: I daresay Eithne will find ways of using that to influence the gamers.
Hugo: She is without a doubt, your grand-daughter.
Murphy: What's that old Terran expression? 'That seed did not fall far from the tree.'
Alyss: Oh, shut up, you guys.
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