Today on Quantum Vibe: Those 7th-Century designs Strip 2362 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2022-08-01
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
Kāng, Horton and Burdon advance along another corridor.
Kāng: How much farther?
Horton: Not far … another left, turn, a right turn, then a down turn ...
Panel 2
Kāng and Burdon stand at the precipice of a vertical intersection. Horton has already crossed it and is now oriented 90 degrees, to the intersecting corridor.
Kāng: Gad. I hate these 7th century designs.
Horton: Under the circumstances, this is better for us than drop tubes or lifts.
Panel 3
All three are walking along a ‘down’ corridor when they come upon another large group of Libérateurs.
Kāng: I’ve had enough of this.
Panel 4
Instead of forming the electric shield Kāng charges directly into the group, swords cutting them to pieces like twin buzz-saws.
Kāng: Yaaaaaaa!!!!
SFX: [multiple CHOPs]
Panel 5
Kāng, Horton and Burdon survey their work: a pile of charred and chopped-up men and arms.
Burdeon: This is … a lot less bloody than I would expect.
Kāng: The electro-blades cauterize flesh as it slices.
Panel 6
Kāng, Horton, Burdon continue down the corridor
Burdon: It certainly makes clean-up easier, later.
Kang: I’m not a barbarian.