Strip 945 -- First Seen: 2012-05-01
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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
Boner in his chair, in an on-line video-chat session. Through the back of the holographic screen we can see six windows with small faces in them. Four of the faces are male and two are female.
Caption: Boner liked to keep in touch with his old university friends back in the Massachusetts sector.
Face 1: So Phranq, did you get your property tax bill this week?
Face 2: Oh, man, did I.

Panel 2
Looking past Boner at the holoscreen.
Face 2: Three thousand continentals more than last year! And I live in a shoe-box!
Face 3: Glad I'm a renter. I just have to worry about income tax. And sales tax.
Face 4: Oh, you'll just pay your landlord's tax through rent surcharges.

Panel 3
Medium close-up on Boner, fingertips pressed together, looking thoughtful.
Face 5 (OP): Yeah, and don't forget the Tanglenet-connection tax.
Face 6 (OP): And the excise tax on that fine Scotch yer drinkin'.
Face 1: Not to mention the tax tax. It's Taxachussets, man.

Panel 4
Pull back so we can see Boner and the six faces through the back of the holoscreen. Boner is suddenly looking excited.
Boner: You know what?
Boner: SCREW MASSACHUSETTS!