Strip 64 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-12-11
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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

Strip 64

Panel 1
Wide panel. The tour stands towards the back of a darkened room filled with electronic displays and control panels. Four Operators are in the foreground (grouped more towards the right), two of them sitting at consoles wearing visors and grasping joystick controllers (the one on the left is female), the other two at stations with normal clusters of keyboards and touch-screens, not quite as intensely engaged with their work as the two with the joysticks.

Lorna: Operations are run from this control center.

Lorna (2): These Operators work in shifts to keep the machinery working at optimal efficiency.

Panel 2
Guy stands beside one of the Operators at a keyboard/touchscreen station, clapping a friendly/sympathetic hand on the man’s shoulder. F and B look on quizzically



Guy: Ah! A true workingperson, mixing your sinew with – ah – asteroid to create material wealth for society.

Guy: And no doubt, paid only a pittance by your cappy masters for your sweat and blood.


Panel 3
The Operator turns around with an annoyed look and brushes Guy’s hand off his shoulder. Angle the shot so that in the background or to the side we can see the other non-joystick Operator, looking on with an amused expression.

Operator: Just what sort of fool do you take me for?

Operator (2): I am one of the “cappy masters” here. And so are my crewmates.