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First Seen: Mon 2012-12-17
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke 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 500
Panel 1Back in the taxi, Buford, Ventura (now sitting up in the middle) and Nicole. Nicole is holding the still-glowing tracer in her palm.
Buford: Aren't you going to deactifate it?
Nicole: If I do that, Xie-Po Tong will know we've discovered this tracer.
Panel 2
Medium shot of Nicole, leaning over to look at the street below.
Nicole: I have a better idea.
Nicole: Driver, set down near that bus terminal, and wait for me.
Panel 3
Nicole is standing in the boarding well of a bus, one hand grasping the rail in front of one of the front seats. In an inset panel, show the tracer dropping from her hand.
Nicole: Excuse me, is this the bus to Xian Hong Kong?
Driver: Can't you read? This bus goes to Mo'i Haiphong.
Nicole: Oops! Sorry.
Panel 4
The taxi flies away, leaving the bus with other passengers still boarding.
Buford (from taxi): Where do you get these ideas?
Nicole: I viewed a lot of spy thrillers when I was a kid.
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