Strip 846 -- First Seen: 2011-12-14
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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
Bert at his desk, talking on his comm.
Bert: About 20 years ago the UW set up a lab and compound at the fringe of Conservation Park in the Western Australian desert – I guess for privacy.

Panel 2
Cut to Tobi in his desk chair, listening.
Bert (filtered): Apparently, they paid an aboriginal woman a lot of money to carry the Neanderthal fetus to term, then rear her as part of her family.

Panel 3
Cut back to a close-up of Bert.
Bert: They, and three other Aboriginal families, moved into the compound with the researchers and their families.
Bert: This was done to create a sort of 'community' for Neanne as she grew up.

Panel 4
Cut to a close-up of Tobi, looking askance.
Tobi: 'Neanne?'
Bert (filtered): Yup, 'knee-Ann,' short for 'Neanderthal.'
Bert: Real funny, huh?