Strip 1816 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2018-07-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Gus Mendes
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 1816
Panel 1Byron interviews Lorelei and Diana. Lorelei interrupts Diana.
Byron: So, Diana, how did this situation with Smith & Holder develop?
Diana: Well, I just went in to the office where I work and there were ...
Lorelei: Diana was confronted by an S&H agent who shouldn't even be living in this city, let alone as a security officer.
Panel 2
Lorelei and Diana. Again Lorelei interrupts.
Diana: Well, at first it was two other agents who said they were there about ...
Lorelei: The two classic agents behaved professionally, of course.
Diana: Well, not so much at first, but I managed to sort it ...
Panel 3
Lorelei and Diana. Diana is getting somewhat annoyed.
Lorelei: Some people don't want to hear about it when one of them brutalizes a youngling.
Diana: Actually, as you measure years here I'm 20.
Lorelei: That overpowered beltape grabbed Diana's arm with both arms and snapped it like dry asparagus!
Panel 4
Pull back again to include Byron in the shot. Lorelei has her arms crossed. Diana is looking at her oddly.
Byron: So you're suggesting that security agencies should not hire beltapes?
Byron: It's not some more general corruption within the industry?
Lorelei: I think beltapes are the corruption of our security agencies.
Caption: Lorelei was using an older, rather rude pronunciation of the word usually pronounced 'bel-toppays' in modern Portanglish. Byron seemed a bit put off.
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