Strip 304 -- First Seen: 2009-11-12
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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
Largish panel, partly to hold all of Ken's dialog. Elevated view of all 3 men in the office, all leaning forward in their seats and engaged in their conversation.

Peña: In our case, there were no simple harmonic resonances from the wind. So no problem.

Ken: Okay, so we have non-linear dynamics which, though highly deterministic, are extremely sensitive to initial conditions.

Ken: What that yields, in musical terms, is 'variations on a theme.'

Panel 2
Medium shot of Ken, looking at Reggie. Leave lots of room for dialog.

Ken: What I don't get is why everyone had the hallucinations and why they were so strong.

Ken: One does not normally take a stroll in near vacuum in his birthday suit just because he hears some music.

Panel 3
Focus on Reggie, but include Ken in the shot, who is looking surprised. Reggie is excitedly springing his big news, gesturing broadly with his hands.
Reggie: Right! I knew there has to be something else at work here -- and there is.

Reggie: The really good news is that the answer could mean an enormous leap forward in the terraformation of Mars!