Today on Quantum Vibe: Cupcaek Strip 319 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2012-03-14
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!
Panel 1
Nicole is sitting up in a medi-vat, barely conscious. She's not wearing anything but the vat slime covers her upper torso and the rest of her is under the opaque surface of the soup. A medical assistant, a stout woman, is holding her by the elbow, coaxing her to climb out.
Assistant: WAEK UP, CUPCAEK, URE ALL HEALD UP NAO.
Assistant: TIEM 4 PROCESIN.
Nicole (weakly): Processing?
Panel 2
The assistant guides Nicole through a cleaning membrane. We only see them from the waist-up and Nicole has one arm across her chest.
Assistant: WE KNOE U HAS CORTICAL IMPLANT.
Assistant: WILL U ALLOW US ACCES SO WE CAN SHUT IT DOWN?
Nicole: Huh? No, I can't do that!
Panel 3
The assistant holds forth a folded-up jumpsuit.
Assistant: DO U KNOE WER U R?
Nicole: No.
Assistant: URE IN DA INFIRMARY OV TEH ADRINOPOLIS JAIL.
Panel 4
Nicole is putting on the jumpsuit, as the Assistant waits.
Nicole: Why?
Assistant: U DID SUMPIN WRONG, CUPCAEK.