Strip 86 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2009-01-12
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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. Leave room at top for caption box and dialog.

Still in the café, immediately after the events of the previous Friday episode. Guy is leaning forward, elbows on table and face resting in his hands. Emily Rose is seated next to him at the table, her hand on his shoulder in a comforting gesture. Camera should be looking from an elevated angle but not straight downward.

Caption: Agent Guy Caillard has just lost his assistant and love interest, Fiorella Stellina, who told him she was quitting the UWRS and joining Cererean society.

Emily: I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but it sounds like she did leave a door open for you.

Guy: You don’t understand.

Panel 2
Two-shot of Emily and Guy, from a side-view angle. Guy is idly stirring his coffee with a spoon. Emily is all empathy.


Guy: I can’t just walk away from my responsibility.

Guy (2): The work I do is too important. Billions depend on me …

Panel 3
Swing camera around so that we are looking at them from the front. Emily is speaking and Guy appears to be at a loss for words.

Emily: I don’t really know a thing about your job, Agent Caillard.

Emily (2): But do you know whether any of those billions would give up their hearts’ desire for you?