Strip 305 -- First Seen: 2009-11-13
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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
Establishing shot, Dr. Peña's office. Reggie and Ken Nightingale are seated across Dr. Peña's desk, facing Dr. Peña. The doctor has just stood up, palms on his desk, raging at Reggie. Ken has a palm raised towards Peña, in a calming gesture.

Peña: Now that is pure poppycock! Are you trying to insult our intelligence?

Nightingale: Dr. Peña, please! Hear him out!

Nightingale: I've known Reggie for years, and he's not disposed to uttering wild exaggeration.

Panel 2
Medium close-up on Ken, who is having an 'on second thought' moment.

Nightingale: Okay, except when he's acting.

Nightingale: Sorry, Reg, you do tend to chew the scenery.

Panel 3
Medium shot of Reggie, leaning forward in his seat (towards Peña), elbows braced on knees and hands clasped together in front.

Reggie: Know what a 'sibyl' is?

Reggie: The word is Latin from the Greek, Sibylla, a prophetess or seer.

Panel 4
This panel illustrates what Reggie is saying. You might do some effect on the panel border to indicate this. Establishing shot of the actual temple complex ruins at Delphi. Show a younger version of Reggie walking through the ruins.

Caption (Reggie): 'Back in the day, I actually visited the temple complex at Delphi.

Caption (Reggie): 'I returned there – in a very real fantasy – yesterday.

Caption (Reggie): 'Everything fell into place.'

Panel 5
Inside the Temple, like we saw in Reggie's fantasy, but real this time, one of the actual priestesses is sitting on her stool above the hole with the fumes pouring out, babbling her fool head off. Two either side are temple priests listening intently.

Caption (Reggie): 'At Delphi, Sibyl would sit above a hole in the earth, go into a trance-like state and utter riddles – more like nonsense probably.

Caption (Reggie): 'Temple Priests would then 'interpret' these riddles and make predictions based on them.'
Panel 6
Smallish panel, close shot of Reggie pausing in his monologue to look at Dr. Peña.

No caption.

Panel 7
Smallish panel, close shot of Dr. Peña, looking exasperated.

No caption.

Panel 8
Two shot of Reggie and Ken, Ken reacting in bewilderment to what Reggie is saying.

Reggie: Methane came out of that hole in the earth.

Reggie: It intoxicated Sibyl, causing her to see things, hear things and babble incoherently.

Reggie: The same thing is happening at the Polar Array.