Strip 588 -- First Seen: 2010-12-08
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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
Morris sauntering along a walkway in Ceres City.
Caption: Not only did Morris know the odds in cards, he improved on them. – he was an accomplished 'mechanic.'
Caption: He thought of himself as a 'practical magician.'

Panel 2
Morris walking past an establishment named 'Gambler's Odds,' a casino. The signage includes images of playing cards and 6-sided dice.
Caption: The casinos were good to Morris …
Caption : … but he found that there were more fish at the poker tables in bars than in casinos.

Panel 3
He approaches the entrance to a rough-looking place with a sign: Iron Rock.
Caption: So Morris made the rounds of three or four bars that usually had the most alcohol-impaired fish.

Panel 4
Morris entering the Iron Rock, framed in the doorway, a very confident but searching expression – like a predator cat looking for prey.
Caption: In that sense, the Iron Rock was the best bar on Ceres.