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First Seen: Mon 2020-09-21
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 2148
Panel 1View of Alyss' booth from the aisle. We can see Alyss' usual bodyguards standing on duty, discreetly out of sight of the occupants. Angled so we can see Diana most clearly.
Diana: Well, imagine being stranded on an alien planet with no access to your bank account or even your friends' telecodes.
Alyss: That sounds rather nightmarish. What did you do?
Panel 2
Focus on Diana. Gesturing as she talks like a good Italian.
Diana: Fortunately I was spotted by a couple of fans I didn't know I had.
Diana: Do you remember that Byron Tchaikovski vidstream that Lorelei deCleyre put me on, five years ago?
Diana: When I was dressed-up like some bumpkin from the Planet Nowhere?
Caption: * QUANTUM VIBE: Château Périlleux, page 57
Panel 3
Alyss is looking a bit more relaxed, dropping her guard.
Alyss: {Giggle} Yeah, I always wondered what kind of hack stylist did your makeup?
Diana: Some flunky of Tchaikovsky's, I think. No matter.
Diana: Anyway, Gus and Emily Tayler saw the vid and later on the docu that I made with Bolivar Clark.
Panel 4
Flashback scene of Diana at a dinner table with the kindly Gus and Emily. Diana speaks from cameos, one per line.
Diana: When I explained my situation they took me under their wing, fed an sheltered me, and were setting me up with passage back home when …
Diana: … suddenly I didn't have a home anymore.
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