Strip 631 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2013-06-28
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 631
Panel 1Robo-Nicole continues flying through the data streams – seen from behind in the distance. In the foreground, we can see several more Checkers and some other nasty-looking things swinging into pursuit.
Robo-Nicole: 'Seamus who.' What's the deal?
Murphy: We can discuss that later. Right now there are more than a dozen bogeys on our tail.
Panel 2
Cut view to inside Robo-Nicole's chest cavity. Murphy is in a jump-seat next to the normal-sized Nicole avatar, which in turn is strapped into a haptic-interface.
Nicole: We're almost home, and I can deal with the bogeys.
Nicole: Get ready to jump at my signal
Panel 3
Exterior view. Robo-Nicole swings belly-forward as the smaller Nicole and Murphy avatars burst forward from the giant chest cavity. Some Checkers and beasties can be seen close behind.
Nicole: JUMP!
Panel 4
Murphy and Nicole tuck-and-roll into the cyber-platform (minus the console) from which they started. Behind them, Robo-Nicole explodes in a blinding electric flash.
SFX: ZAMM!!!
Panel 5
Back in realspace, Murphy and Nicole snap awake. Nicole is tightly clutching Murphy's hand.
Nicole and Murphy in unison: We made it!
Panel 6
Murphy and Nicole gaze into each other's eyes with a growing hunger.
No dialog.
Panel 7
Nicole pulls Murphy out of the easy chair and into her bed.
Nicole: C'mere, you.
Panel 8
Cut to Nigel and Buford – Nigel is looking at Murphy and Nicole (in the foreground below the frame, we can just see one of Murphy's unshod feet sticking up) with surprised bemusement, while Buford looks at Nigel with bedroom eyes.
Nigel: I'd tell t'em to get a room, but we're already in it.
Buford: What d'you say we go to your place?
SFX: mmf mmf ohhhh mff mff ummmm
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