Strip 477 -- First Seen: 2010-07-06
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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!

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
The brothers continue their work assembling the equipment.

Bert: We have no downside and some really amazing upsides.

Ernie: How amazing?

Panel 2
Bert pauses in his work, holding his wrench in one hand and ticking off items on his fingers of the other hand.

Bert: The scans tell us the mascon weighs about 200 kilos, and has a specific gravity of at least 18.

Bert: That means it must be a fairly pure chunk of osmium, iridium, platinum, plutonium, gold, or tungsten.

Panel 3
Bert continues attaching an exterior panel to the mass driver, using his wrench.
Bert: If it's gold or platinum, we'll make more money than we ever have. Osmium or iridium would yield 20-33 percent of that, still a nice haul.

Panel 4
Medium shot of Ernie, attaching a different support leg. His eyes are widening in reaction to what Bert's saying.
Bert (OP): If it turns out to be plutonium, Katie bar the door! We could buy our own moon.