Strip 325 -- First Seen: 2009-12-11
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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
Medium close-up of Reggie King, shouting into a T-comm. He's wearing lounging clothes, of which we'll see more in a moment.

Reggie: Aliens!

Reggie: Are you crazy?

Panel 2
On the control deck of the Split-Tail, focus on Doris speaking into her comm while Fiorella looks on from the background.

Doris: Maybe so, Reggie, but check the vid I'm sending to your comm.

Doris: That's what our recorders picked up.

Panel 3
Medium shot of Reggie, sitting in an easy chair in his suite aboard the Delta Free. He's now holding the comm in front of him so it can project a holo-image of the Moai-asteroid.

Reggie: Okay, I've been to Easter Island – Rapa Nui to the locals.

Reggie: That rock is a ringer for one of the Moai I saw on a hillside.

Panel 4
Closer shot of Reggie.

Reggie: But UFO debunkers demonstrated years ago how it could all have been done with the primitive tech available at the time.

Panel 5
Cut to Doris, medium close-up.

Doris : Okay, but who made this big one out here in the Belt?

Doris: It sure wasn't spacefaring Polynesians.

Panel 6
Exterior shot of the Delta Free, in space.

Reggie: [sigh] Doris, there's something fishy about all this.

Reggie: I'd check it out personally but I'm aboard the Delta Free, still almost two decadays out from Ceres.

Reggie: May I hire you to keep an eye on what the UW is up to with this thing?

Panel 7
Cut to Doris, smiling amiably:

Doris: Sure, Reggie. I'm curious too, so I'll give you a 25% discount on my regular per diem.

Reggie (from comm): You're a lady and a scholar. Keep me posted.