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Strip 965 -- First Seen: 2012-05-29
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What Comes Next

The War is Over. We Won.

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
Cut to a meeting hall, perhaps the same one where we earlier saw Pilgrim giving his orientation speech to the newcomers. But now at the dais is Marsha Plotner, the woman who declared that free medical care is a human right. Several dozen people -- Mascons all -- are seated in the rows before her. She is holding up a plastic water bottle. (Pilgrim is not in this scene.)
Caption: Everything was going fine, until the water incident.
Marsha: I noticed this water, that I got from the Comet Ice & Water Company, tasted funny.
Marsha: So, I had it tested.

Panel 2
Medium shot of a railing Marsha, holding forth that water bottle as if meaning to dash it to the ground.
Marsha: It's contaminated with magnesium!
Marsha: I'm not going to drink water full of heavy metals!
Marsha: There oughta be a law!

Panel 3
A member of the audience stands. He's a bit older, greying, of slight build, with the manner of a college professor. He speaks up.
Man: Uh, well, I'm a physicist, and I have to tell you, magnesium is actually a very light metal.
Man: Our bodies need magnesium, and pure H2O would actually chelate it out of ...
Panel 4
Several other audience members have turned and are shouting at the physicist, who cowers like a whipped dog. To one side we can see Marsha smiling in triumph.
Mascon 1: A physicist? Oh, excuse me, are you a medical doctor?
Mascon 2: Seems to me Marsha's opinion is just as good as yours!
Mascon 3: Sit down, Chester, we're trying to accomplish something here!


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