Today on Quantum Vibe: Almost unprecedented Strip 2314 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2022-02-07
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!
Panel 1
Cut to Greta Heidelberg in her office in Novo Paolo, confering with holograms of Marlon Trudeau and Jean-Luc Macron.
Caption: Six days later, elsewhere in the city:
Greta: Fourteen days already and no bombings! You are falling down on the job.
Jean-Luc: That is hardly a fair assessment, Madame Minister.
Panel 2
Greta, Marlon, Jean-Luc
Jean-Luc: Local security has adapted quickly, as I said before.
Jean-Luc: They have uncovered and neutralized two-thirds of our cells.
Greta: Two-thirds? That’s almost unprecedented.
Panel 3
Greta, Marlon, Jean-Luc (who side-eyes Marlon)
Jean-Luc: It didn’t help matters that Mordy personally handed them information leading to a third of them.
Marlon: Those were the weakest of the bunch.
Marlon: None of us anticipated the development of this Resposta Ciudadana, slowing recruitment down to almost nothing.
Panel 4
Greta, Marlon, Jean-Luc
Jean-Luc: Our focus on the five Pillars was too narrow, and ...
Greta: Enough with the excuses! As it happens, this lull may prove to be beneficial.
Marlon: What?
Jean-Luc: How?