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First Seen: Thu 2014-01-09
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 744
Panel 1Now everyone is over next to the apparatus. Nicole has climbed up and is looking into the hole where Moe is working. Seamus and Murphy stand to one side.
Seamus: Be careful! That's delicate equipment!
Murphy: A full EM shield? Projected around the ship, I presume.
Panel 2
Now Nicole is half-way in the hole, working with Moe.
Moe: Okay, just hold that brace there while I get the splitter.
Seamus: Of course. It creates a stationary pulse-wave around an axis of co-radii, at a selected distance.
Panel 3
Two-shot of Seamus and Murphy. Murphy is looking at Seamus with concern.
Murphy: An EM pulse-wave. Which you can move at will.
Murphy: What happens to A.I. Brains that pass through that wave?
Seamus: They would be – rendered inert, along with any other electronics, shielded or not.
Panel 4
Pull back to see everyone again. Murphy is distraught. Nicole has raised her upper-body back out of the hole to say her line.
Murphy: Why would you give a … a horrid weapon like this to violent criminals?
Nicole: Because he's out of his shucking mind!
Moe: What criminals?
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