Strip 2416 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Sun 2023-05-14
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.
Transcript For Strip 2416
Panel 1New scene: In the Pillars’ conference room: Alyss, Jorge, Enrique, Kofi, and Hugo (who stands in the background)
Caption: Speaking of the Pillars:
Kofi: So where is de Cleyre?
Enrique: She may not be able to attend.
Panel 2
Cut to show the de Cleyre mansion being attacked by a squadron of Invaders
Enrique (inset): Her home is under continued assault and she doesn’t want to leave it, even though the defenses are mostly automated.
Jorge: Well, she’s the only one of us who never experienced a war.
Panel 3
Back to the four remaining Pillars. Kofi jerks a thumb towards Hugo.
Alyss: We’ll have to proceed in her absence.
Jorge: We should re-think the traditional rule for in-person meetings.
Kofi: What about HIM?
Panel 4
Alyss, Kofi, Hugo et al. Hugo is doing his silly grin and hand-wave.
Alyss: With Albert gone and Kāng Min-Chèng in hospital, Hugo is the best military strategist we have.
Kofi: If you say so, Alyss.
Panel 5
Alyss, Kofi, Hugo, Jorge, Enrique, Hugo
Alyss: Don’t disappoint me, Hugo.
Hugo: Well for one thing, I brought a new, more powerful capital ship in our fleet. I named her ‘Polyphemus.’
Alyss: Cool name. By the way, where is Murphy?
Panel 6
Cut to Polyphemus zapping Invader vessels which are attacking the SchildHaus.
Hugo: Oh, aboard Polyphemus, amusing herself by defending your Schildhaus from the invaders.
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