Strip 230 -- First Seen: 2009-07-31
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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!

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Illustrative panel. Younger Tobi wearing 'office casual' clothes, giving a presentation on a stage, pointing at various charts and graphs being displayed on a very large screen behind him. His posture indicates he's not having a good time.

Caption (Tobi): Look, when I started working on the Tanglenet, every physicist in the world laughed at me.

Caption (2): They said that while entangled particles seemed to communicate instantaneously without regard to distance, there was no way one could use them for human communications.

Panel 2
Medium close-up of Tobi at the table, in full bore professor mode, gesticulating with the pointed index finger.

Tobi: However, Kantor's 1977 book, Information Mechanics, implied an end-run.

Tobi (2): I found that end-run and the rest is history.

Panel 3
Looking back at Bert and Ernie, not the best of students. Ernie is looking overwhelmed, resting the side of his face in his palm. Bert just looks exasperated.

Bert: So now –?

Panel 4
Tobi leans forward, rests his chin on his fists, which he clasps together before him, elbows on the table.
Tobi: I am trying to apply that end-run to space travel.
Tobi (2): I think there is a way to travel from any point in the universe to any other point in the universe, instantaneously.


Panel 5
Bert and Ernie looking at one another in jaws-a-slack amazement.

Tobi: (OP): And maybe even from one point in Time to any other point in time, but I'm not making book on that part.

Panel 6
Illustrative panel. It's a small-scale political rally full of fail, in some sort of auditorium. The stage is festooned with banners, balloons, and politicians, but there are only three bored-looking rallyers standing out in an area large enough to hold hundreds.

Caption (Tobi): 'So you see, if such a possibility existed and it was cheap enough, no government would be able to hang onto its citizens.

Caption (2): 'They could basically pick up and leave.'

Panel 7
Medium 3-shot of the men at the table, the brothers on the left and Tobi on the right. Tobi is about to sip the last of his drink.

Tobi: So I think that has something to do with this guy who's gunning for me.


Panel 8
Same shot. Bert and Ernie are blurting out their line as Tobi sips his drink.

Bert and Ernie (in unison): What's he doing now?