Strip 626 -- First Seen: 2011-01-31
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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
One big panel, establishing the main setting for this story: The Place de la Concorde, an octagonal public 'square' lined with shops and on the right-hand side, the Hôtel de Crillon. The plaza and hotel are scaled-down replicas of the original Place in Paris. The plaza is festooned with fountains and statues, including a fake Obelisk of Luxor, a full 23 meters tall. Overhead is a high, domed ceiling showing a faux-Terran sky of blue clouds (which becomes a starry sky at night, complete with fake Moon). At this time the plaza is also festooned with Christmas decorations, both of the religious and secular variety. About a dozen-plus people can be seen milling about. In addition, an assemblage of four persons – two asian males, one large white male and one sinewy black woman – stand in front of the hotel, surveying the scene.
Ringing the plaza are several decorative light poles each of which also sports a surveillance camera.
Caption 1: The Place de la Concorde on Ceres was a small-scale version of its Parisian name-sake, complete with fountains, a faux Obelisk of Luxor, various shops and the Hôtel de Crillon, a formerly four-star hotel that had become a passable hotel for transients.
Caption 2: The high overhead dome displayed a simulated Terran blue sky during the day, and a moon-lit Terran night – on a 100 centime cycle in synch with the Martian cycle favored on Ceres.
Caption 3: With Christmas only days away, the plaza was presently festooned with holiday decorations, both religious and secular.
Caption 4: It was here that the mysterious Terran foursome last seen at the Iron Rock resurfaced, having purchased the hotel with a gold script debit card issued by eGOLD Panama, S.A.
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