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First Seen: Mon 2022-11-07
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!
Transcript For Strip 2389
Panel 1Alyss and Michael on the bridge. Angle so we’re looking past them at an image of Gigantor2 on a large viewscreen.
Michael: We can’t hope to beat another one of those right now, we must retreat!
Alyss: No! We can’t leave the Schildhaus undefended!.
Panel 2
Exterior view, the warship ‘Qiong Qi’ pops into the field. In an inset we see Boudica Chen’s grinning face. The Qiong Qi looks something like a winged tiger, legs extended as if in mid-spring.
Boudica: Okay, I’m here! Time to start the party!
Caption: Boudica Chen, master of the fighting ship Qiong Qi
Panel 3
Gigantor two firest at EJ, but EJ manages to foomp away
SFX: ZAAMmmmm
SFX: Foomp!
Panel 4
A massive bolt erupts from the ‘head’ of Qiong Qi and blasts the head of Gigantor 2. Its body is electrified
SFX: KaKRAKKOOOoooomm
Panel 5
Gigantor’s ‘head’ is a smoking stub. The arms and legs are scorched and apparently inert.
Michael (from EJ): Second Guerrero gigante is … inert, electrocuted.
Boudica (from Qiong Qi): You need to know where to hit them.
Panel 6
Split panel, Boudica and Alyss
Boudica: This is getting completely out of hand. We need to cut off the source of these invaders, now.
Alyss: Agreed. Can you stand guard here? I need a quick re-charge and then I’ll go evict that IGC Legation.
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