Today on Quantum Vibe: Backup unit Strip 673 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2013-09-20
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!
Panel 1
Nicole and Antigone are walking along a hotel corridor. Behind them is Murphy, encased in a Bubb which is following them.
Caption: Following a stop back at Stone's ship to retrieve Murphy:
Antigone: Where do you think she kept her back-up storage?
Nicole: I'm not certain.
Panel 2
They enter the girls' apartment.
Antigone: Did she have any kind of suitcase or carry bag?
Nicole: I never saw one, but maybe she hid it with a holofield the way I usually do with my carry-all belt.
Panel 3
Antigone looks around the room. We see the overstuffed chair Murphy often sat in, next to Nicole's bed.
Antigone: Where did she spend her downtime?
Nicole: Sometimes in that overstuffed chair, and sometimes … uh … in bed with me.
Panel 4
Antigone looks at Nicole, who is blushing again, flustered.
Nicole: I get nightmares sometimes, from what happened on Luna, all right?
Antigone: I'm not judging you.
Panel 5
Antigone is looking around the overstuffed chair.
Antigone: I'm not seeing anything that could be a storage unit.
Antigone: Could Seamus be keeping one for her?
Panel 6
Antigone and Nicole. Nicole is looking thoughtful, troubled.
Nicole: I suppose he could.
Nicole: But that would mean she wasn't doing daily back-ups.
Nicole: Seamus has been holed up in his room the last 5 days, doing dawk-knows-what.
Panel 7
Now Nicole and Antigone, with Murphy still floating in the Bubb, are outside the door to Seamus' room.
Nicole: Seamus! Let us in! Murphy needs you!
Seamus (from inside): Later! I'm busy!
Panel 8
Nicole glances angrily at Antigone, who is a study in stoicism.
Nicole: When we get in there, can I kick him in the balls?
Antigone: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.