Transcript For Strip 749

Panel 1
A crowded hospital ward, with dealthy-ill looking patients in their beds.
Caption (Moe): By the time we'd gotten settled the shielding had deteriorated to the point where a lot of people were coming down with cancers and other radiation-related diseases.

Panel 2
Young Moe and her mother walking briskly along a darkened corridor. Mother is carrying a suitcase and Moe, who she is hurrying along, has her own, smaller bag.
Moe: Father could not leave Io, and mother would not abandon him, but they determined to save me.
Moe: When my mother awoke me in the middle of third shift had me quickly dress and then hustled me to the spaceport, I wasn't told what was in store.

Panel 3
Moe's mother waves goodbye at a large bay window as we see the spaceship bearing Moe departing.
Moe: Mother had family on Ganymede, and just enough funds to pay my passage there.
Moe: She promised that eventually she and Father would follow me.

Panel 4
Triptych: Closeup on Moe as she expresses by turns outrage, sadness, and a low rage.
Moe: But three years later my mother died from pancreatic cancer – in this day and age!
Moe: Father committed suicide a hundred days after.
Moe: And the mercorpuscles refuse to even admit there's a problem!

Web-comics Scott Reads

SPACETRAWLER
Grrl Power
Schlock Mercenary
Unsounded
Diesel Sweeties
Girl Genius
XKCD
Drive
Day By Day
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Questionable Content
Gunnerkrigg Court
Something * Positive
Oglaf (NSFW)
Trekker
HELM
POWERNAP

For news and reviews:
The Beat
Bleeding Cool
Comics Worth Reading