Strip 1742 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2018-01-08
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.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Transcript For Strip 1742
Panel 1An Enig Quasifem, Darrel Farrel, is framed against a background showing the logo of the Jaxx Forge Company. A smaller logo for Realnews and a bar carrying the name 'Darrel Farrel' is in the lower left corner of the frame. There's a time stamp: 1070.08.11.05:50
Farrel: The Jaxx Forge company is under fire again after three company officers resigned last Quinday amid allegations of embezzlement and kick-back schemes.
Farrel: Jaxx Forge, of course, is a major supplier of the dynasteel forms used in spacecraft, aircraft, and hydrocraft manufacture.
Panel 2
Cut to med shot of Diana at her breakfast table, eating her breakfast as she is viewing the news. Farrel's voice continues from OP.
Farrel (OP): Realnews reached out to those executives for comment, but they refused to respond directly.
Farrel (OP): However, René Hauk, an attorney representing ex-COO Dyson Ming, categorically denied all of the claims placed against his client.
Panel 3
Now we see Ren Hauk an attractive but stern-looking woman, facing a brace of newsies.
Hauk: We will go to arbit and when all the facts are presented in their proper context, there is no doubt Mr. Ming will be fully exonerated.
Hauk: And afterwards he intends to resume his stellar career as operations director.
Panel 4
Cut back to Diana looking cynical with a mouth full of egg.
Diana (thought): But it won't be directing operations at Jaxx Forge.
Diana: I'll bet Ming sells out the other two in exchange for a light judgment.
Diana: I wonder what kind of odds they're offering on that at the parlor.
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