Strip 152 -- First Seen: 2009-04-14
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What Comes Next

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!

A Little House Cleaning

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Wide panel. A lone, lonely figure clad in an enviro-suit – Reggie – strides away from the external airlock. He's about 100 meters out at this point.

Caption: 30 minutes before the end of Harris' grace period.

Caption 2: During the 24 hours before the surrender of the 'Cererean Government' was to take place, Reggie wasn't the only one taking personal responsibility.

Panel 2
Another wide panel. This is a montage of six individuals, shown mostly from the chest-up, in various types of clothing, looking grimly determined. Most of them in darkened backgrounds illuminated by LCD monitors and holoscreens. These are the control rooms of various rock-wrangler ships although we can't tell that at this point. One of the individuals is Captain Doris. I can't locate a description of her – Sandy, if you have some ideas for what Doris looks like, now's the time to let us know. Doris has a medium build, nice body, but more athletic and “hard” than Fiorella. Her hair is a wavy to curly light brown, off the shoulders, but not much. She could be of northern European extraction.

Caption: In Reggie's state of mind, he'd forgotten his own observation, that nobody tells Cerereans what to do.

Caption 3: Nobody has to, they just decide for themselves.

Caption 2: Other Cerereans were making their own decisions.