Strip 165 -- First Seen: 2009-05-01
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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
Large, panel, re-establish the scene: Exterior side-view of the Split-Tail with its cutting laser aimed at the bridge of the much-larger Gamma Conqueror (no need to show all of the larger ship). If room permits show one of the Beta ships with another mining ship similarly positioned.

Fiorella (from the Split-Tail): Here's what I'm thinking:

Fiorella (2): You land your ships on Ceres ...

Panel 2
Medium close-up of Kruger on the bridge of the Gamma.

Kruger: Ma'am, these ships are not designed to land on planets. They were built in space and are always in orbit or in transit.

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Fiorella at her comm console.

Fiorella: Cap'n Doris says to remind you that Ceres' surface gravity is less than 3 percent of Terra's.

Fiorella (2): She says your boats are way over-structured and will be able to lay on their sides with no damage.

Panel 4
Downward view on Kruger, so we can see him touching a button on his left-side console. The image of the ship's engineer appears on the small screen.

Fiorella (filtered): Says to ask your ship's engineer.

Kruger: I will do so. Stand by.

Panel 5
Medium shot of Kruger, looking up at the Split-Tail.

Caption: Moments later:

Kruger: Engineer says it can be done, but we'll need some of your craft to act as tugs. Is that possible?


Panel 6
Inside the Split-Tail, we now see Captain Doris at her helm console.
Doris: Absolutely, Captain. What do you think we do all day?

Doris (2): We're in the business of pushing big ugly chunks of metal and stone around.

Panel 7
Medium shot of Kruger, with a Captain-Kirk-like grin.

Kruger: Captain Doris, I presume?

Doris (filtered): The one and only, but I'm sort of busy station keeping with your ship.

Doris (2): I'll let gunner Stellina handle the chit-chat.