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First Seen: Thu 2021-10-14
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 2278
Panel 1Silhouetted figure stands over the comatose Jane Doe, on Jane's right side. The figure's hand reaches down towards Jane's shoulder.
Figure (thinking): Cytomax is undetectable in the blood, once it has done its work.
Figure: It produces an instant cytokine storm which stops the heart and chokes off all fluid circulation in the brain.
Figure: Since she's in an induced coma she won't feel anything.
Panel 2
Medium close-up. The figure's hand is pulling Jane's coverlet and gown aside to expose the mediport on her right shoulder. One feed line is attached, but there are two other ports on the device. We should see the hypo-injector in the figure's other hand.
Figure: Normally, an injection site could be detected.
Figure: But here I can dose her through the mediport we installed on her when she arrived.
Figure: So no one will ever know … it will look like a natural death.
Panel 3
Close-up: The figure positions the mediport with her left hand while bringing up the hypo-injector in her right.
Figure: In just a few moments it'll be all over ...
Panel 4
Another, silhouetted hand has moved in from the right grabbed the figure's wrist.
Figure: GAH!
Figure 2: ¡Parada!
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