Strip 1736 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2017-12-20
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Creepy moves in darkness dares discovery.
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 1736
Panel 1Another shot of Alyss and Diana and Juan in the booth. Still chatting.
Caption: The other thing that bothers me about Roaz, is her high-handedness.
Caption: Even when she was human, she'd come up with grand ideas that disrupted a lot of people's lives and she didn't seem to care.
Caption: While she did develop some awesome technology, she could stand to learn some humility, in my opinion.
Panel 2
Finally, we get let in on the conversation.
Alyss: Well, of course I didn't ask to meet you here just to reminisce about old times.
Alyss: But there's a loose string from our 'Venus 23' adventure that has been bothering me and I want your help tying it off.
Diana: And what string is that?
Panel 3
In lower left of panel, Alyss, in upper right, a memory image of Hayami.
Alyss: Hayami. The gynoid whom I'd hired to assist me on your homeworld, but then betrayed me and destroyed my biological body.
Alyss: She was murdered shortly after we returned to Oz.
Alyss: Which is a remarkable feat in and of itself. She was physically quite formidable.
Panel 4
Another three-shot of Alyss, Juan, Diana. The latter two are exchanging glances.
Alyss: But what's more remarkable is her 'back-up' went missing, too.
Alyss: I'd thought her actions came from a misguided ideology, but obviously she knew something that someone didn't want revealed.
Alyss: I think that someone wanted me eliminated and I want to find out who it is.
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