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First Seen: Tue 2013-12-17
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser
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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 735
Panel 1Now facing Hernandez are the Lunan politicos: Senator Bud Ringo, Rep. Hugh Stockyard, and Gus Mann. Ashanti reads off their descriptions.
Ashanti: Senator Bud Ringo of the Mare Fecunditatis District, Luna.
Ashanti: Ringo was first elected 23 years ago on a platform of closing the central bank and restoring a free money system.
Ashanti: Since then the Bank of Luna has continued operations as usual. Ringo has been re-elected three times.
Panel 2
The focus shifts to Stockyard.
Ashanti (OP): Hugh Stockyard represents Amundsen City in the Lunar Congress.
Ashanti: His platform calls for reducing the power and reach of the Lunar government – except when the interests of OmegaTek are at stake.
Stockyard: That is not true!
Panel 3
Cut to two-shot of Hernandez and Ashanti.
Ashanti: To be more specific, the interests of Starr Photonics, an OmegaTek subsidiary which has its manufacturing plant at Amundsen Crater.
Stockyard (OP): I will not apologize for protecting the jobs of my constitutents.
Panel 4
Back to the politicos, focus now on Gus Mann. Ringo is looking at man with surprise, Stockyard is wincing, and Mann looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
Ashanti (OP): No doubt those jobs are safe in the hands of your chief-of-staff, Gus Mann.
Ashanti: Mann also happens to be on the payroll of OmegaTek, attached to Stockyard as a minder to make sure the congressman doesn't wander off the reservation.
Panel 5
Hernandez and his associates.
Hernandez: Sounds like what we have here are a collection of typical political scumbags.
Ashanti: They are also the Lunar Government's negotiating team for the Ionian mining conference.
Panel 6
Shot includes Hernandez in foreground left and Ringo in the middle-ground right.
Hernandez: Tell me Senator, how does an idealist like you're supposed to be end up carrying water for OmegaTek?
Ringo: In playing the game of politics one must be a realist. To reach my goal I have to make a few compromises along the way.
Panel 7
Three-shot of Ajax, Hernandez, Ashanti. Hernandez looks like he has a headache. In the foreground right we see Mann, looking frantic.
Hernandez: I've heard enough. Order their tongues cut out before they get shoved into their lifeboat.
Mann: Hey! I didn't get a chance to speak!
Hernandez: Start with that one.
Panel 8
Closer three-shot on Ajax, Hernandez and Ashanti.
Ajax: No suspension this time?
Hernandez: No. The smell of them has me feeling nauseous.
Hernandez: Who's next?
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