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Strip 941 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: Madness yields madness
Strip 941 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2014-10-10
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser
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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.

Quantum Vibe: Nicole - By Scott Bieser w/Zeke Bieser

What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

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!

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Transcript For Strip 941

Panel 1
Theo is sitting at the same desk we'd seen Nazanin previously. Only everything is darker now.
Caption: 'After the police inquiry and the funerals, Farnsworth was left to brood over his situation.
Caption: 'The battle cry 'Allahu Akhbar' was burned into his brain like an ugly scar.

Panel 2
Close-up of Farnsworth, his face lined in stress, intently studying the laptop screen.
Caption: 'As an atheist, he knew or cared little about any religion, much less Islam.
Caption: 'He began by studying the Muslim holy book, The Quran, but he could find nothing within that would explain why a man would murder his daughter and grandchildren.
Caption: 'So he began searching for other sources.'
Panel 3
Looking past Theo at the computer screen, we see images of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and David Yerushalmi
Caption: 'His searches quickly turned up three notorious anti-Islamic activists: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and David Yerushalmi.
Caption: 'These three and others painted a picture of Muslims that meshed quite closely with the madness of his late wife's father.'
Panel 4
Cut back to Johanna, explaining.
Johanna: When Nazanin rejected Islam she became guilty of the sin of 'apostasy.'
Johanna: There are passages in the Quran condemning this action, but the consequences prescribed are open to some debate.
Johanna: Some believed an apostate's soul would be destroyed after death.
Johanna: Others insisted – a minority view at that time -- that apostates be killed in this life.
Panel 5
Cut to Murphy and Nicole, along with others in the galley, watching Johanna with rapt attention.
Johanna (OP): Another factor here – which the anti-Islamists tended to overlook -- was an older tradition in cultures from that part of the world of 'honour killing.'
Johann: When the actions of a family member – usually a female – were thought to 'disgrace' the family, that family's community standing could be restored by killing the offender.
Panel 6
Back to the presentation – a medium close-up of Farnsworth at his computer, looking over the laptop screen into the camera with grim determination.
Caption: 'Farnsworth concluded that it was not just his father-in-law, but Islam, the religion, itself, that destroyed his family.
Caption: 'Therefore he became determined to destroy Islam.'

Panel 7
A graphic map of the world with icons indicating the populations of Muslims.
Caption: 'Now, 'destroying Islam' would have seemed like a near-impossible task. After all Islam is an idea, not a place or a thing.'
Caption: 'And at that time Islam's adherents numbered nearly 2 billion, spread across six continents.'

Panel 8
Extreme close-up of Theo's eyes, showing madness.
Caption: 'The very idea was extraordinary and quite mad.'
Caption: 'But as it happened, Theophilus Farnsworth was an extraordinary genius, with the aggrieved determination of a mad scientist.'

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