Strip 484 -- First Seen: 2010-07-15
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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
Tall panel. Medium shot of an obviously 'tourist' family – dad is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, with knee-length shorts, knee-high socks, and a 'fanny-pack' slung under his gut. Mom is wearing a big floppy hat and is carrying a large travel-bag, and has a death-grip on the hand of the younger (male) child, who himself is straining to get away and find something interesting. Completing the ensemble is the bored teen-aged girl. They are in the Ceres Spaceport lobby, with the transparent ceiling overhead.
Caption: The slang term 'Beanie' was used for both tyros and tourists in the Belt.

Panel 2
The Tourist Family in a gift shop, being proferred an 'Official Belter Beanie' by the clerk.
Caption: It referred to the 'Official Belter Beanies' sold in tourist shops in every community in the Belt.
Caption: It's an on-going source of amusement for Belters, who would never wear one.

Panel 3
The Tourist Family strolls along Ceres City's main street, Dad and Son proudly sporting their beanies (Mom keeps her floppy hat though Daughter is made to wear one, and looks really annoyed about it). Locals watch them pass by and snicker to themselves.
Caption: Everyone plays along with the gag until the buyer figures out he is the butt of a Belt-wide practical joke.