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First Seen: Wed 2020-11-25
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 2175
Panel 1Lorelei smirks at the other three while they recover from the surprise entrance.
Lorelei: You guys have been popping around the universe for 500 years, I'd think you'd be used to this sort of thing.
Alyss: I take it you've never heard of PTSD.
Caption: Lorelei deCleyre, at a mere 243 years, is the youngest of the city's civic leaders, known collectively as 'The Pillars.'
Panel 2
Four-shot of Lorelei, Alyss, Murphy, Hugo
Lorelei: Of course I have. But none of you was here when the Gran Raio happened.
Alyss: No, but we've been directly involved in three to five previous shooting wars.
Hugo: And besides, we're all under stress now, and so we're a bit jumpy.
Panel 3
Same scene, now Lorelei is focused on Hugo.
Lorelei: My parents kept me well away from the last big galactic war, it's true.
Lorelei: None of my children and grandchildren have known that level of chaos.
Lorelei: Let's see that they don't have to now.
Panel 4
Hugo smiles gently in return.
Hugo: Well said, my dear.
Hugo: Now, may I presume you have some purpose for popping in just now?
Lorelei: Well, actually I get a jolly out of making you guys jump like that.
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