Strip 450 -- First Seen: 2010-05-28
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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
An instant after the last panel. In the foreground, we can see Robyn holding the now-bloody metal tube. In the background, Norman is staggering backwards towards the window, blood still spurting from this nose. Carla is standing to one side, horrified.

Norman: Guh!!

Panel 2
Norman staggers backward and falls, slamming his head against the large window.
SFX: Chonk!

Panel 3
Norman slumps to the ground, semi-conscious and bloody-faced. Where his head struck the window, we can see a spider-web of cracks radiating from the impact-point.
SFX: (a dozen tiny CRACK!s and POP!s)
Panel 4
Robyn grabs Carla (who is paralyzed with horror) and pulls her towards the airlock door.

Robyn: Come ON!

Panel 5
Inside the airlock, Robyn tugs on the inner lock door but it won't budge. Carla can be seen to one side, still frozen in horror.

Caption (Robyn): 'When I tried to close the lock's door, it wouldn't budge. Most likely the hinges were too rusty.

Panel 6
Looking over Robyn's shoulder, through the airlock doorway, we can see Norman has gotten to his feet, and staggers dazedly/menacingly towards her.

Robyn: Fuck-berries.

Panel 7
The window behind Norman disintegrates, and the air rushes out of the room into vacuum, drawing all loose objects in the room with it. Norman is now staggering backwards (but there's a heavy love-seat close-by which he will grab in a second.)

SFX: WHOOOOOSH!!!