Strip 221 -- First Seen: 2009-07-20
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Not-Safe dot Kickstarter

The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.

This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.

The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.

Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.

The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.

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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Three-shot of Bert, Ernie and Tobi at the table on the patio. Re-establish the scene from Friday. Tobi is animated, leaning towards the brothers, palms in the table as he pontificates.

Tobi: Do you have any idea how bent out of shape the Powers That Be get when new disruptive technologies come along and challenge their power base?

Panel 2
The next two panels illustrate what Tobi is saying. Lets make these and all other 'illustrative panels' to come have rounded corners or some other device which distinguishes them from panels showing action in the 'present.' In this one, we have bit of a street scene in a Martian city where people walk past a shop that has a large advertising poster in the window. Two or three Martians can be seen walking past, but we can clearly see the poster.

The poster promotes the new Percheron Home Fusion Power Unit. The Unit is about the size of a desktop PC but it's face is along one of the wide sides rather than the narrow sides. It has two readout monitors and about 20 buttons on the face, but is otherwise designed to look home-appliance-like. We see it mounted on the wall in a typical Martian home, with a young Martian couple gazing upon it with adoration and pride, as it powers their home entertainment system, house-lights, kitchen as can be glimpsed through an open door, etc. Leave room for advertising-type text in the upper and lower regions.

Tobi: Earth researchers were well on the way to developing desktop fusion units, long before the Martians came out with their devices.

Panel 3
This time a street scene in Terra. Glum Terrans trudge by a large promotional poster pasted on a brick wall, promoting the Global Energy Company. Looks like one of those old Soviet propaganda posters from the 1930s, including graphics depicting a power plant, transmission lines, a kitchen gas stove burner alight and some stylized 'Socialist realism' figure pointing the way towards the future. Leave top third open for text, bottom eighth for more text.


Tobi: Personal fusion units are used throughout the system, but ordinary Earthers can't get them for love or money.

Tobi: Do you know why?