Strip 735 -- First Seen: 2011-06-29
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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
Tall panel. Several of the Scouts, carrying fairly large ruck-sacks, are filing by Bert, who is checking their names on a list displayed on an electronic tablet (a bit smaller than an iPad) that he's holding.
Caption: And so, by launch day all 23 Space Scouts had their parental permissions arranged and presented themselves at the space-port, bearing packs filled with gear that the Guzmáns had designated.

Panel 2
Large panel, establishing the exterior shot of Sweet Liberty, resting on her landing struts on a tank-treaded platform just outside the space station. (The platform is for taxiing ships between the station and the landing/launch pad, located a safe distance away.) An enclosed gangway leads from the station to an access hatch on the ship, half-way along her hull. Here and there are little recesses in which reside 3-meter long, boom-like objects that might be laser cannon. She is larger than Little Toot, about 40 meters from nose to her five thruster nozzles, about 20 meters at her widest cross-section, and built for a variety of uses – mining, hauling, pleasure-cruising, and fighting. She looks sleek but also robust.
Caption: The trip to the planetoid – computed at about 80 centimes – would have been very uncomfortable for 25 people in a smaller boat, but the Brothers Guzmán had chosen Sweet Liberty in part for her roominess.
Caption: Though the ship had six staterooms and a captain's cabin, those were off limits to the gender-mixed Crew of Space Scouts. Everyone would bunk in hammocks strung up in the ship's common area.