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First Seen: Mon 2021-11-15
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 2289
Panel 1Li starts relating the story from a cameo inset. Main panel shows a much earlier Bubbleopolis, with only five spheres.
Li: Two hundred fifty years ago – a bit less than half my lifetime – Novo Paolo was a much smaller city, but already thriving as a center of commerce and culture.
Panel 2
Cut back to the control room with Bok and Li.
Li: Turns out that when you set up a contractarian system that safeguards private property and contracts but otherwise leaves people alone, they can accomplish some amazing things.
Bok: You’re preaching to the choir here, Situ. I’m a ‘Venus World’ refugee.
Panel 3
Back to the story, Li speaks from the cameo inset. The main panel shows a silhouetted figure facing a bank of dour-looking people on monitors.
Li: Quite so. Anyway, the city’s success became an embarrassment for rulers of other worlds.
Li: Some considered themselves more ‘civilized;’ others simply saw us as a ripe melon ready to be harvested.
Panel 4
Switch view to show the person silhouetted. A broad-faced, mustachioed man who would look more at home in a 19th-Century (C.E.) boxing ring.
Caption (Li): ‘Even back then, the city was a tough nut to crack.
Li: ‘So, they forged an alliance led by one particularly ambitious rascal, Cornelius Barnhill.
Li: ‘It was Barnhill who would direct and lead the war against Novo Paolo.’
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