Strip 222 -- First Seen: 2009-07-21
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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
Three-shot of Bert, Ernie and Tobi at the table, focus on Tobi, still talking, while the brothers sip their drinks thoughtfully..

Tobi: Do you know why Earthers can't get personal fusion power?

Tobi: Because cheap, reliable power was a threat to Earth's legacy fossil-fuel interests.


Panel 2
Typical Terran living room. Cramped space, worn upholstery, but there's a 52-inch holovision monitor on the wall, and the family is watching. On the screen a big-haired newsreader in the lower left corner is reading a story, while a large graphic appears behind and to her right. It has a small personal fusion box superimposed on a mushroom cloud rising behind it, and the large text reading 'FUSION MENACE.'

Caption (Tobi): 'The UW blamed them for everything from nuclear winter to dandruff.'

(2): 'They are banned to everyone except the military and the politically connected.'



Panel 3
Three-shot of the brothers and Tobi at the table. Bert is asking a question.

Bert: And personal fusion units are relevant to some guy trying to kill you, how?

Tobi: Oh, yeah ...