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First Seen: Mon 2021-11-29
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 2294
Panel 1Seated behind a massive desk is Cornelius Barnhill himself.
Caption (Li): ‘I wasn’t expecting to find myself in the lion’s den.
Caption: ‘Barnhill exuded a kind of commanding energy that was at once both charismatic, and terrifying.’
Panel 2
In a darkened room, Barnhill gestures toward a spherical diagram representing a tactical view of the war at that point.
Caption: ‘But he was not at all bellicose in his manner.
Caption: ‘In a matter-of-fact tone, he outlined the tactical situation our city faced.
Caption: ‘And it looked very bad for us.’
Panel 3
Li is looking grimly at the display as Barnhill looks at Li.
Barnhill: As you can see, we can continue choking off your supply chains, star system by star system.
Barnhill: Eventually you must surrender, or starve.
Panel 4
Focus on Li.
Li: While we’re sharing I’ll just get to the real heart of the matter:
Li: We know your stated causus belli is a giant bag of guano.
Li: What the flaming hell do you people want from us, anyway?
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