Today on Quantum Vibe: Insecurity Strip 2121 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2020-07-20
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.
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Panel 1
A fairly featureless corridor, at the end of which is a desk with a bored security guard, next to a heavy door.
Caption: Bubbleopolis doesn't really do jails, or prisons.
Caption: Most lock-ups are ad-hoc arrangements, only intended for temporary use.
Panel 2
Closer-in on the guard at a desk. Now the guard is getting zapped by a zinger coming from POV.
Caption: So they don't really have a conception of 'high security' beyond enclosing the place in an Oresme Shield to prevent unauthorized Murph-ing.
SFX: ZIING
Panel 3
Looking down an inner corridor where there's a room with a doorway that is open but a glowing doorjamb indicates an invisible barrier.
Caption: Ah, an EM-screen rather than metal bars. At least they're not completely primitive.
Panel 4
Now looking straight through the doorway, we see Alex Stern laying in his bunk, looking up in surprise.
POV: Hello, Alex. Keeping busy?