Strip 719 -- First Seen: 2011-06-07
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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 home of Jim and his father Sam. The matronly woman from 56.1 is speaking to Sam, as Jim is sprawled in a chair nearby, watching a video screen seemingly without a care in the world.

Caption: Jim's step-mother had already left the family for 'more civilized' Mars, leaving Sam as the the boy's sole custodian.

Panel 2
In the middle-background, we see Sami standing next to two unhappy-looking men, one in a business suit and the other in a policeman's uniform (late-21st-Century style), waving and smiling at his son 'Jim,' who is in the right foreground literally 'skipping' out of a tense scene.
Caption: Back in the UK sector, Sam had regularly used his position to bail out Jim and his Jokers Wild cronies when they got into trouble.

Panel 3
Reprise of the scene way back in the early days of the strip, where we see most of the same 'leading citizens' sitting around a conference table, quaffing adult beverages and deliberating. Reggie and Babbette are not there.
Caption: This created a problem for the Ceres Merchant's association.
Caption: They could bring Jim to arbitration, but his father would simply pay the judgment and Jim would likely skate and then get into far worse trouble in the future.