Strip 2299 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2021-12-13
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 2299
(Captions throughout)Panel 1
I live in a 60-year-old rental house, and last week my landlord informed me that he was going to re-level the foundation (which did need doing), starting the following wednesday.
On Wednesday, after my housemate had taken the day off from work to keep an eye on the work crews, we learned that the start date was going to be Thursday. Which was the last day of the Roswell, Texas Deluxe indiegogo campaign.
Fortunately I was able to get everything done for Thursday’s strip but that morning it was up to me to keep an eye on a dozen workmen swarming in and around the house.
I took pictures, and as the interruption is going to blow my time for doing Monday’s strip, y’all get a pictorial instead.
The QUANTUM ViBE story will resume Thursday.
Panel 2
The process involves cutting into the floor at
select locations, and installing stone posts
as parts of the foundation get jacked up.
They covered all furniture near the work with plastic sheets, and lay tarps to mark off the sections to be dug.
The inside work involved two sections; the den:
Panel 3
And the hallway leading back to the bedrooms and bathrooms:
They started digging with hammers and shovels.
Panel 4
Then they brought in the big guns.
Panel 5
As the holes got deeper, they filled wheelbarrows of dirt outside, dumped on the driveway.
All the inside holes were this deep!
Panel 6
They also dug holes at various places around the perimeter, generating big piles of dirt and demolishing a wooden deck.
Those piles magaged to spawn clods of mud all over walkways, and bits came into the house as workers (and I, taking photos) trudged in and out.
The next steps were to fill the holes and re-tile the floring.
This is covered in Part 2.
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