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First Seen: Wed 2012-02-01
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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 289
Panel 1The PA is at her console, tapping buttons and turning dials. The enforcers are gathered menacingly around her.
Enforcer 1: This is taking too long, furr-ball!
PA: Please! I-I'm pushing this as fast as I can!
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
Panel 2
Enforcer 1 strides over to Seamus' vat, his electro-gauntlets building a charge.
Enforcer 1: Ain't fast enough!
Enforcer 1: Amina bust this thing open and then we're gonna ...
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
Panel 3
As a shadow zips across the field of view, Enforcer 1's head suddenly flies off his shoulders.
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
Panel 4
Back over at the console, Enforcer 2 looks OP left in alarm while Enforcer 3 shakes the PA in a panicked rage.
Enforcer 2: MAX!
Enforcer 3: WHAT DID YOU DO?!
PA: haminahaminahaminahamina
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
Panel 5A
Medium close-up on Enforcer 3, still throttling the hapless PA, whose head we see the back of in the lower part of the panel.
Enforcer 3: WHAT DID YOU
SFX: BWARRRP!
Panel 5B
Same shot, but now the top half of his head is gone, as a shadow again zips across the frame. What's left of him completes the sentence, sort of.
Enforcer 3: THOOOOO?!
SFX: BWARRRP!
Panel 6
Enforcer 2 stands in the middle of the room, enraged and looking around for his unseen enemy.
Enforcer 2: I saw you that time, you shuck!
Enforcer 2: Next time I'm gonna nail ya!
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
Panel 7A
A shadow zips across the panel, and the Enforcer ducks instantly, saving his head.
Enforcer 2: Ha!
SFX: BWARRRP!
Panel 7B
He has reached out and grabbed his assailant by the ankle -- all we see of the assailant, though, is a blur.
Enforcer 2: Gotcha!
SFX: BWARRRP!
Panel 8
Enforcer 2 recoils in pain as his arm is severed half-way between wrist and elbow.
Enforcer 2: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
SFX: BWARRRP! BWARRRP! BWARRRP!
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