Strip 505 -- First Seen: 2010-08-13
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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
Large panel, Re-establish scene: The Mass Driver is now just slightly closer to Dactyl than last time we saw the mini-planetoid. The Mass Driver's other end is pointed along Dactyl's orbital path but not directly at Dactyl.
 
Bert: Will two rocks instead of three or four be enough?
Ernie: Hold on while my ock and optics compute it.
 
Panel 2
Tight shot, looking over Bert's shoulder at Ernie, who has assumed 'The Thinker' position.

No dialog
Panel 3
Close-up on Ernie, looking back tensely at Bert.

Ernie: Maybe.
Panel 4
Two shot of the brothers, Bert looking exasperated.

Bert: 'Maybe?'
Bert: That is the answer from the most up-to-date, personal on-body computer in human space? 'Maybe?'
 

Panel 5
Ernie looks levelly at Bert – in a subtle way, he's asserting a leadership attitude.
 
Ernie: Look, Bert, I said it might be close.
Ernie: We are within a very small margin of error. The variables are too great to come up with a meaningful computation.
 
Panel 6
Ernie tosses one of the medium-rocks into the conveyor.
                       
Ernie: So let's just take our best shot and hope for the best, okay?
 
Panel 7
Medium shot of the rear-end of the mass driver, the two medium-rocks shooting out of it.                     
SFX: WHOOM