Strip 29 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-10-23
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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

Strip 29

Panel 1
Back at Babbette’s counter, her granddaughter walks up to her holding the Continental note Guy had given her.

B the younger: What the slush am I supposed to do with this, Gramma?

B the elder: Mind your language, honey.

Panel 2
Babbette the elder leans on her counter to peer down at her granddaughter.

B the elder: Anyway, I need you to go round up up the Rev’rend and Sam and Davey and Neil and have them meet me in the poker room, right away.

B the elder (2): I’ll pay you point-2 gold gram.

Panel 3
Looking over the elder’s shoulder at the younger Babbette. She’s in horse-trader mode.

B the younger: Point-5 gold. And you owe me for bringing those two Terries here.

B the elder: Point-three-five, and the usual bounty for 'Shanghaiing' those two 'sailors' for the boarding house. And I’ll give you point-04 for the Continental. Final offer.


Panel 4.
Babbette the younger 'walks' away from the counter, holding the note in front of her with new-found interest. (We see her coming towards us in the foreground-right with her grandmother in the background watching her.)

B the younger: Okay, three-five on the round-up, but I think I’ll keep this note.

B the younger (2): It looks funny. I think I’ll get it laminated and add it to my collection of wierdities.