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First Seen: Mon 2024-08-26
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 2493
Panel 1Present day: Alyss with the grandkids. The youngest two in her lap and others in the background
Alyss: By sundown we had the tent fixed up, and the beginnings of a garden.
Alyss: The boys had set up the anchors for the perimeter web, along our property boundary.
Panel 2
Alyss narrates from a cameo: We see the family at dinner in the cruiser’s galley.
Alyss: At dinner, Warren could not stop talking about the combine he helped build.
Alyss: Brielle, normally the chatty one, was unusually quiet.
Panel 3
Alyss naration continues: We have an overview of the family sleeping in their partitioned tent.
Alyss: We didn’t stay up long, after a day of working.
Alyss: I remember dreaming of our descent to the planet, and sorting seeds for planting.
Panel 4
Alyss’ narration appears in one final box, as Nicole and Li stand outside the tent, bleary-eyed and stretching, in t-shirts and shorts.
Alyss: Days on Novo Palermo are only 92,700 seconds long, but that’s longer than the 86,400 seconds we were used to, so it was long enough.
Nicole: Hmf ...
Li: Yup.
Panel 5
Med close-up on Nicole and Li. Nicole scratches her side lazily, Li rubs his face.
Nicole: I don’t suppose we can take the day off.
Li: Sure but that will mean another day before we can sleep in an actual bed.
Panel 6
The children burst through from behind, almost knocking the adults over. Warren is angrily pursuing Brielle.
Warren : YOU GIVE THAT BACK!!
Brielle: Nyah-Hah!
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