Strip 598 -- First Seen: 2010-12-22
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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
The Scene: An outdoor cafe at the Place de la Concorde – a sort of town square dominated by the Hôtel de Crillon.. Merry is seated at one of the cafe tables and Pablo Rosenberg is taking a seat across the table from her.
Merry: Thanks for meeting me, Sv. Rosenberg.
Pablo: Pablo, Please. I take it you want to talk about your three … uh, two wards.

Panel 2
A waitress serves coffee to Pablo as Merry holds her coffee cup in both hands while she speaks.
Merry: Something curious has happened.
Merry: After Morris disappeared, I explained to Lawrence and Kinko that they were liable for Morris' debt as well as their own.

Panel 3
Looking over Merry's shoulder at Pablo, who is smiling.
Merry: When they started whining about how 'unfair' that was, I read them the riot act …
Pablo: Which doesn't even exist in the belt.

Panel 4
Medium shot of Merry, smiling back at Pablo.
Merry: Anyway, I really showed my anger and even said maybe I should have indentured them out at hard labor.
Merry: Since then they have been submissive, almost servile towards me. What's up with that?