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First Seen: Mon 2018-10-29
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 1866
Panel 1Diana is sitting on a stool in front of something that looks like it should be a telecom station, with a console and large viewscreen. But she's sitting facing away (towards us) in a classic lotus position, eyes closed. A psychedelic graphic on the viewscreen frames her head and shoulders.
Caption: Gyeon-hoon had cautioned me about communications concerning hacking.
Caption: At Roaz's house I was able to establish a super-duper-secure line to Zander, and feed him some names to look for:
Caption: Older, Belbenoit, and 'Château Périlleux.'
Panel 2
Diana and Zander are together in a 'cyberspace' frame similar to their previous contact. Diana is still 'sitting' in a more relaxed pose. Zander is reclined.
Diana: Also, any employee of Smith & Holder who had been connected to RPLD.
Zander: Wow. You want me to hack into one of the biggest security agencies in the City?
Zander: I will have to be really careful. This will take time.
Panel 3b
Another view of Zander and Diana.
Diana: Time is something we don't have a lot of.
Zander: Besides, would they even have that sort of information?
Diana: Like you said, they're a security agency. They'd damn well better vet their employees thoroughly, regarding associations.
Panel 4
In realspace, we can see Zander reclining in his workstation chair, eyes closed. Looking a bit irked. In the background we can see someone silhouetted at another work station.
Zander (thoughtsend): I suppose so. I wonder how much crap I'll need to sort through.
Diana (thoughtsend): Background checks on people who can count their years in triple digits, can go deep.
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