Strip 394 -- First Seen: 2010-03-16
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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
Pull back to show as much of the room as possible: Looking at Screen from behind girls, the display changes: the diagram of the Park moves down to a lower right quadrant of the screen. In the upper right is the SkyLand logo, on the left is a portrait of Rop G, with some (not quite readable to us) providing basic biographic information.

Though Rop G sounds like a rapper name, it's a Dutch name. Rop is a geek, a sort of cool geek, but a geek nonetheless. He is modeled on a very real, very white (geeks live and work in the dark), very well known Dutch hacker, Rop Gonggrijp, whom I am honoring. The rap artist persona doesn't fit. Think of his more as a (good) Magneto from X-Men. He is a 'gravity hacker.'

Mike the Screen: SkyLand has an engineer who uses a special steerable asteroidal mass, and other techniques, to constantly tweak the system.

Panel 2
The Screen fills the panel. It is showing the same display as described in panel 1; but now we can see everything more clearly.
Mike: Sv. Awatere refers to him as SkyLand's 'Interplanetary Man of Mystery.'

Mike: He goes by the name, Rop G. He says the G stands for 'gravity.'

Panel 3
Doris and Fiorella, still facing the screen, are exchanging 'are you kidding me?' looks.

Mike (OP): His job title is 'Celestial Mechanic' but he refers to himself as a 'gravity hacker.'

Mike (OP): He claims to use something he calls 'Chaotic Resonance' to keep the system in order.

Panel 4
Same shot, the two girls grinning at each other.
Doris: 'Chaotic Resonance.'
Fiorella: 'Gravity Hacker'
Doris: Sounds highly likely.