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First Seen: Mon 2024-05-13
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.
Kickstarter Success! [ May 13, 2025 ]
The Not-Safe-Space 2 Kickstarter Campaign has ended successfully. Thanks to all who pledged!
Now we get to wait 2 weeks while Kickstarter transmits the funds, and Scott can order the books, and send surveys to backers to get current e-mail addresses for the .PDF versions and mailing addresses for the physical books.
All of this should show up in June.
Transcript For Strip 2480
Panel 1AAlyss walks along a corridor.
Caption: About an hour later:
Panel 1B
She rounds a corner and finds Li-Liang waiting for her.
Li: You’re taller than I remember.
Li: Got a minute?
Panel 2
Alyss regards Li coolly.
Alyss: Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear earlier.
Li: Just one minute. Please.
Panel 3
Alyss and Li
Alyss: Okay, but take off those ridiculous goggles. I want to look you in the eyes.
Li: Huh? Ah, well, if you insist.
Panel 4
Li removes his goggles. In place of his eyes he has elaborate cameras.
Li: About a hundred years ago I was blinded in … an assault.
Li: Albert Montoya helped me, set me up with these.
Li: In my line of work, they are very practical. Broad-spectrum, sensitive to x-rays, or radio waves.
Panel 5
Alyss’ stone face softens as she reacts.
Li: Alyss, 250 years ago I had a terrible lapse of judgment, and paid a terrible price.
Li: Tyranny must always be opposed, compromise leads to slavery.
Li: I know you hate me now, but I hope I can somehow, someday, redeem myself in … your eyes.
Panel 6
Li puts his goggles back on. Alyss looks away.
Li: You don’t have to answer now. Just watch me work, and decide for yourself.
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