Strip 33 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-10-29
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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 33

Panel 1
Looking past B and E at G and F. Guy is looking annoyed.

Guy: You mean to tell me you made this Reginald person King just because he was here first?

Bert: You gotta understand what things were like back then.

Panel 2
Flash-back scene, showing some of the original settlers, in pressure suits, standing around the frozen corpses of their dead comrades, among large chunks of loose ice. Bert and Ernie appear as heads in little inset panels.

Bert: The original settlers really had it rough.

Ernie: Of the first 100, only 35 survived after three Terran years.

Bert: They had to learn how to live in the ice.

Ernie: There were a lot of accidents.

Panel 3
Another flash-back scene – some settlers wearing heavy clothing but not pressure suits, carrying various drilling tools, in a panic as the top of the ice cavern they’re in collapses on them. We see Guy and Bert and Ernie in little inset panels.

Guy: How dangerous can ice be? It’s frozen water. And you have almost no gravity here.

Bert (from out of panel): And no air pressure or heat, but what we can create.

Ernie (from out of panel): The ice has uneven density -- it leaks here, collapses there.