Today on Quantum Vibe: Treading carefully Strip 2116 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2020-07-03
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.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Panel 1
Montoya is creeping through a dark alley, himself barely visible underneath his holo-charm, which is doing a chameleon thing.
Montoya: (thought): No telling who or what I might run into back here.
Montoya: The holo-charm might make me nearly invisible but I still must tread carefully.
Panel 2
Montoya is only a few meters away when the back door opens and a large bundle is tossed out.
Montoya (thought): That must be the back door and … ah!
Montoya: I hope that isn't what I suspect it is.
Panel 3
Montoya cautiously approaches the bundle on the filthy pavement.
Montoya: (thought): Whatever it is, my tracer is not on it.
Montoya: Still, I need to know ...
Panel 4
Montoya lifts a flap to see the face of his stalker. Angle shot so we focus mainly on Montoya's dismayed reaction, but we can see enough of the stalker to know she was beaten horribly. But her hair color identifies her.
Montoya: Maldito seja!
Montoya: (thought): Did they do this to her just because I caught her? Did they detect the tracer?