Strip 159 -- First Seen: 2009-04-23
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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
Wide panel. Dominating the panel on the left side is an external view of the Gamma Conqueror's starboard side (the ship will extend a bit out of the top and bottom of the frame). On the right side, the five-meter iron rock tumbles past, and we can now see that a mining ship (about 3 meters across and 5 meters long) has been trailing the asteroid and is now swinging around towards the bridge of the larger ship.

Caption: As the iron rocks tumble past the Strike Force ships, the small mining ships they had been concealing swing into view...

Panel 2
Interior, the bridge of the Gamma Conqueror. Harris and the crew look upward in the alarm at the mining ship they can see through their canopy, directly facing them. A laser cannon is aimed at them. If space permits we might see one of the Beta-class ships in a similar predicament.
Caption: Maneuvering with their guidance rockets, each of those little ships has its multi-megawatt cutting laser aimed directly at the bridges of the Strike Force ships.