Strip 587 -- First Seen: 2010-12-07
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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
Flashback scene: In the Cuban sector, Morris is dressed in slick 'out on the town,' stepping out from a nightclub entrance. The club's name is 'La Copa Cabana.'
Caption: In his native Cuba, Morris was known as a juega vivo, which roughly translates as a 'player.'
Caption: Though violence was never far under the surface, he usually used his brains.

Panel 2
Around a corner from the entrance, he's handing something to a somewhat less-well-dressed man, both of them looking over their shoulders.
Caption: In the Cuba sector, he started as a petty hustler of alcohol, nicotine and other banned drugs.
Caption: Later he became an accomplished con man and card shark.

Panel 3
Morris is now in Ceres City, walking down main street past a sidewalk cafe where a couple of patrons are smoking joints and happily conversing. Morris looks over at them with an expression of frustration.
Caption: In the Belt, there were no drug prohibition laws to support that hustle.

Panel 4
Medium shot of Morris leaning up against a wall, holding a deck of cards in one hand, doing that cut-a-deck-with-one-hand move, while smiling slyly at the camera.
Caption: Belters were extremely skeptical not not prone to get-rich-quick schemes, so scams were out.
Caption: That left card.