Strip 228 -- First Seen: 2009-07-29
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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 the guys at Tobi's patio table. This time angle is reversed and Tobi is at the left, Ernie's back is to us (although we see some of his face as he looks at Tobi), and Bert on the right facing left. The net panel is essentially a large through-scene that forms in the brothers' minds.
Tobi: We are developing plants that will yield meat genetically identical to cows, chickens, fish and everything else.

Panel 2
A hydroponic garden: four long grow-trays lined up side by side, with signs indicating what they are at the ends of their light-coverings. (we might see bits of two more trays on either side of the frame). The signs have names like 'Sirloin,' 'Porkchop,' 'Flounder,' and 'Turkey Breast.'
Tobi (OP): Not only will they produce real meat for a tenth of the resources, but these plans will do so over a wide range of water, sun and temperature environments.


Panel 3
Tobi leaning back in his chair and smiling, the fingers of each hand pressing its opposite member in front of him.

Tobi: I already have a steak-fruit gourd.

Tobi (2): Its productivity has to be increased, but it does exist today.


Panel 4
Elevated shot of the three men at the table.
Tobi: When we have created and perfected enough chimera species, we will distribute free seeds everywhere.