Strip 513 -- First Seen: 2010-08-25
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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
Bert crawls painstakingly along Dactyl's surface.
 
Caption: Bert had to move carefully towards his goal. In Dactyl's near-zero gravity, one false move could bounce him into space, where he'd be helpless without his jet-pack.
 
Panel 2
We see Bert from behind as he peers over the rim of the deep crater at Little Toot and the smuggler's spaceship. We can also see the two shuttle-craft.
 
Caption: Finally:
Bert (thinks): Hope I'm not expected.

Panel 3
At the bottom of the crater, Bert carefully approaches Little Toot. We can see part of the other ship in the background. We should also see some lines anchoring both ships to the crater floor.
Bert (thinking): Little Toot's lights are on, the other ship looks dark.

Panel 4
Bert 'stands' near the base of Little Toot. He has an access panel on the side of her hull open and he's reaching inside. There's a wire attached to his helmet, the other end is in the hand reaching into the access panel.
 
Bert (thinking): Here goes nothing.