Strip 141 -- First Seen: 2009-03-30
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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
Exterior of the Gamma Conqueror, looking up at her from underneath. Her energy cannon is deployed and a thick beam of white energy emits from it towards Ceres (which is out of frame behind our POV to the right).

No dialog.

Panel 2
Inside the Water Brothers Cafe, by the bar. Emily is still talking to Billy on her wrist-comm. Babbette the younger has moved in closer behind Emily to eavesdrop. (At this point we don't really see Billy, just the 6x9-inch screen emanating from the comm.)
Billy (from comm): Relax, Emily, I'll be there in just a few beats.

Panel 3
Exterior view of the Rose seastead, similar angle as when we first saw it. The energy beam is just now hitting the place, enveloping it in a white-hot cylinder.

No dialog.

Panel 4
Looking now at Billy through the holoscreen emanating from Emily's comm. We see just a bit of her head on the left side of the frame, also looking at him. In the screen, we see the background behind Billy looking very white.

Billy: What's that light -?