Strip 730 -- First Seen: 2011-06-22
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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
In Reggie and Babbette's cabin, Reggie, clad in t-shirt and long shorts, stands and gazes at a wall-sized view screen which is presently showing a view of Venus – from about 20,000 miles away, looming large, with a 'surface' of fast-moving clouds. We can see Babbette, dressed in a light shift, sitting on the edge of the bed in the far right of the panel.
Venus reference: http://library.thinkquest.org/12659/media/solar_system/venus/venus.jpg
Reggie: Just a few hours left, now. It's been an interesting trip.
Babbette: I'll say.

Panel 2
Swing around so that the focus is on Babbette seated on the bed, with Reggie starting to walk over to her.
Babbette: Between almost getting our cover blown, and all that time we sat in that damned radiation shelter, and that lifeboat drill, I haven't had so much 'interesting' since the War of the Worlds.

Panel 3
Reggie sits on the bed next to Babbette, puts a loving arm around her shoulders.
Reggie: Lifeboat drill – you mean the instructions on how to operate the emergency life-support systems in each of the cabin-sections.
Babbette: We're supposed to just drift in space and hope a burner comes along to rescue us? Sheesh!

Panel 4
We see the embracing couple from behind, silhouetted against the growing image of Venus on the wall screen.
Reggie: Are you sorry you came on this trip?
Babbette: Sorry? I wouldn't give this up for anything.