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First Seen: Wed 2020-01-08
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
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 2042
Panel 1Cut to: A conference room. Medium shot of Francisco Da Costa, with Dominic Martello seated to his right, Achal Verma, engineering consultant, to his left.
Caption: Elsewhere in the city, a Crisis Committee meets:
De Costa: So, what's coming next? Another high-speed space-turd?
Caption: Francisco Da Costa, financial advisor
Dominic: I'd prefer something more creative. Like a high-speed Picasso.
Caption: Dominic Martello, science advisor
Panel 2
Panning right, we still see Dominic but sitting to his right are Kāng Min-Chèng, military advisor, and farther right, Albert J Montoya, foreign affairs consultant.
Dominic: Or something sexier, like a high-speed Olivia De Beradinis.
Kāng: The enemy could launch another relativistic missile at any time from any direction.
Caption: Kāng Min-Chèng, military advisor
Montoya: We should expect some kind of statement from … whomever ... before the next assault.
Caption: Albert J. Montoya, foreign-affairs advisor
Panel 3
Pan right so we still see Montoya; to his right are Sheldon Rico, chairman of Mentes Libres, and Sergio Cooper, security advisor.
Rico: Agreed. Whoever we're dealing with put some planning and expense into this. He must want something from us.
Caption: Sheldon Rico, chairman of Mentes Libres
Cooper: I think in the short term he wants to generate chaos, put us on our back feet.
Caption: Sergio Cooper, Assurance Agencies Liason
Panel 4
Panning back over to the far left of that table, we see Achal Verma, De Costa, and Martello.
Verma: But, to what end? We have no resources here. What could they want?
Caption: Achal Verma, engineering consultant
De Costa: Well, this is a financial center. Maybe they just want money.
Martello: Do you think they'll accept my collection of Bill Ward nudes?
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