Strip 169 -- First Seen: 2009-05-07
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Not-Safe dot Kickstarter

The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.

This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.

The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.

Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.

The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.

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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
The Gamma Conqueror is being gently landed on its side on the Ceres surface by a four mining ships doing service as tugs. If space permits show one or two of the Betas also being lowered by a pair of tugs each.

Caption: And so the ships were grounded, Harris and the Weapons Officer were taken into custody, and the weapons were removed from the ships.

Panel 2
A group of 20 young men and 5 women in UW Space-Navy uniforms, mostly looking happy and excited, looking around in amazement at Ceres City

Caption: One in five crew members chose to stay in the Belt, and were taken to Ceres City.

Panel 3
Reggie, back in shirtsleeves, along with Guy and Bert, greet Captain Kruger and the Yeomen who had arrested Harris earlier.

Caption: Captain Kruger took Fiorella's sage advice and decided to stay on Ceres, as did Yeomen, Ito, Jones and Bernal.

Panel 4
The six Beta ships, now disarmed, rocketing away from Ceres.

Caption: The rest were sent back to Terra with their tails between their legs, just as Reggie had promised so many months before.