Strip 138 -- First Seen: 2009-03-25
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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
Two shot of Reggie and his computer screen, on which we can see Admiral Harris at an angle.

Reggie: Okay Admiral, for one, I'm not King Reginald, I'm just Reggie King, a simple man of the cloth and a damned fine actor.

Panel 2
Medium shot of Reggie, counting the numbers off on his fingers.

Reggie : Two, there is no rebellion. We were never a part of the United World, we escaped from Terra to get away from those sad, repressive games.

Reggie (2): Three, Ceres is a self-organized anarchy. There is no government to control, we didn't start with one and never needed one.

Panel 3
Pull back so we can see Reggie talking to Harris on the computer holoscreen. Reggie is holding his arms wide, palms upward, in a gesture of surrender.

Reggie: Four, sure, send down a shuttle and you can take my sad carcass away to whatever UW dungeon you want.

Reggie (2): Just leave everyone else the hell alone.


Panel 4
Same shot, a little closer-in. Reggie is reacting in astonishment to Harris' reply.

Harris (electronic): Spare me, Reginald. Caillard told us all about your little kingdom. You aren't going to wiggle out of it that way.