Strip 2594 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2026-06-22
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 2594
Panel 1Tomás Lohman stands before Arb Rico. We can see Jenkins in the background
Lohman: It is my sad duty to inform the court that Respondent Mitch Elvin and his family have … disappeared without leaving contact info.
Lohman: I hereby tender my resignation as respondent’s avogado..
Panel 2
Focus on Rico, angled so we can see him past Lohman, who is stepping aside. We see the backs of the audience’s heads in the foreground.
Rico: In that event, I rule that the respondent forfeits.
Rico: All of Elvin’s property on Novo Palermo is hereby awarded to the plaintiffs.
Panel 3
Jenkins stands to face Rico, who is also standing:
Jenkins: Can we engage you to assist in settling the distribution we come to?
Rico: I can examine it and give an opinion, for what that’s worth.
Panel 4
Jenkins faces the assembled spectators.
Jenkins: Folks, the good news is you are all going to become considerably wealthier.
Jenkins: The bad news is it’s up to us to sort out how to divide this, and this could be contentious.
Pan el 5
Focus on Jenkins, but we see Situ Li-Liang looking on from the from row of the audience,
Jenkins: But the good news is that the Belter Compact, which we all agreed to when we signed on here, offers a solid framework for negotiation.
Jenkins: Better yet, we have one of the Compact’s framers with us.
Panel 6
Focus Julius and Situ
Julius: Congratulations. You’re now a marked man.
Li: Damn. I can’t just bail out, myself. It’ll set a bad example for my kids.
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