Strip 423 -- First Seen: 2010-04-21
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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
Robyn, in a jail-type jumpsuit, is mopping a floor in an institutional-type office area (dingy walls, cheap furniture, linoleum floor). On Robyn's right, a female guard is playfully stroking Robyn's cheek. Robn glares back at her.

Caption (Robyn): 'While in the Youth Authority, a female correction officer came onto me. I told her to keep her hands to herself.'

Panel 2
Robyn rams the mop handle into the guard's nose. The guard's hand is on Robyn's ass.

Caption: 'When she touched me again, I … uh, well, I broke her nose with the mop handle.'

Panel 3
Back to the present, in the cafe booth. We're facing the wall at this point.

Babbette: Oh, so you have a history of breaking noses.

Emily: Shush! I want to hear this.


Panel 4
Switch angles, now we're viewing the scene from the wall. Beyond the booth, we see a half dozen people sitting or standing a short distance away, listening intently.

Robyn: When I was 10, my parents enrolled me in a Kendo dojo after a bullying incident in school.

Robyn: It paid off … sort of.