Strip 595 -- First Seen: 2010-12-17
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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
At the bar, Larry applies a special bandage to Suki's forehead cut. Show one or two of the other players at the table, including Ed, looking on in sympathy.
Larry: This airskin bandage will stop the bleeding.
Suki: I have a bit of a headache. I think I'll go home.

Panel 2
Medium shot of Larry holding a T-comm up to his ear. Leave room for caption boxes.
Caption: A few centimes later, Mike called Suki's com to see how she was doing. No answer.
Caption: He considered the possibility of foul play, but also realized that Suki probably just shut off her comm so she could get some uninterrupted sleep.

Panel 3
In the medium background, Suki enters the bar again, in a very feminine silken dress (a different one from before). She is wearing a traditional Thai hat, covering the residual scar on her forehead. In the foreground right, Larry is at the bar cleaning a glass in that traditional bartender manner.
Caption: Three nights later ...
Larry: Nice hat.

Panel 4
Suki sidles up to the bar, Larry pours her a drink. Suki smiles a crooked, wry smile.
Suiki: I had a choice between this hat or a royal Chada headdress.
Suki: To wear that, though, I'd have to be a Thai queen.

Panel 5
Suki's smile disappears as Larry off-handedly asks her a pertinent question.
Larry: I guess you haven't seen that guy you caught cheating, have you?
Suki: No, of course not. Why do you ask?

Panel 6
Larry relates a quick story – need room for lots of dialog.
Larry: No reason, just that nobody's seen him since I gave him the bum's rush.
Larry: Except Fred, the guy at the Crillon did see him. He said our cheat came in with a bloody nose, cursing a blue streak. After 3-400 beats he came back down from his room with a small piece of luggage.
Larry: Nobody's seen hide nor hair of him since.

Panel 7
Two-shot of Suki and Larry, Suki takes a sip of her drink. Larry resumes his glass-cleaning routine.
Suki : Maybe he beat it out of town.
Larry: Maybe, but no passenger or cargo vessels have left in five days.
Larry: Hard to believe he's still on Ceres – this place is too damned small for nobody to have caught sight of him.

Panel 8
Suki looks darkly at Larry. Larry is turned away from her (facing towards the camera) but has a very uncomfortable look on his face as it occurs to him what Morris' fate really was.
Suki: Maybe his karma caught up with him.
Larry (thought): Well, none of my business.