Today on Quantum Vibe: The offer, the threat Strip 2295 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Thu 2021-12-02
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.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Panel 1
Barnhill laughs at Li.
Barnhill: Hahahahaha! Is that not obvious? We are building a universal hegemon.
Barnhill: Your thriving anarchy is inspiring imitations across the known universe, and we can’t have that.
Barnhill: But what you should worry about is what we want from YOU.
Panel 2
Barnhill and Li
Barnhill: You can save a lot of lives and avoid a great deal of needless destruction.
Barnhill: Give us the codes to get through your Oresme shields.
Barnhill: We’ll send in enough troops that most of your people would see the futility of resistance, and we’ll have peace.
Panel 3
Li and Barnhill
Li: I think you underestimate Novo Paoloans’ determination to live free, Barnhill.
Barnhill: They are not the only ones at stake here, Senhor Situ.
Barnhill: Consider your children and grandchildren, scattered across 17 galaxies.
Panel 4
Li is frozen in alarm mixed with rage at Barnhill’s next words.
Barnhill: Yes, we have located all of them. And they are not so well-protected.
Barnhill: And I promise you, if we have to take your city the hard way, your lovely wife, if she survives, will be executed as an intergalactic criminal.
Barnhill: Naturally, we’ll have a trial, but you know how that will go, don’t you?