Strip 170 -- First Seen: 2009-05-08
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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
Very large panel, containing the upper half of the page. Crane shot of a street party / carnival in downtown Ceres City. A chaotic festival of revelers and various types of performers – musicians, dancers, tumblers/aerobatics (remember, .03 gravity). Included among the revelers are some of the Strike Force crew, in their uniforms but with insignia removed.

Caption: And to quote from a classic movie, 'there was much rejoicing.'

Caption (2): The Cerereans celebrated the end of the Strike Force Threat with characteristic gusto, in a massive street party in downtown Ceres City and dozens of smaller parties throughout the Belt.

Caption (3): The defecting Strike Force crew members were greeted warmly. Hundreds of new friendships were made that day.

Panel 2
Wide panel. Inside Callahan's, Captain Doris and Fiorella, flanked by a dozen other rock wranglers of both genders, are toasted by a large crowd.

Caption: Captain Doris and the 'Royal Flotilla' were the toast of the town.

Caption (2): Doris and Fiorella each received 127 proposals of marriage, all politely turned down.

Panel 3
Inside Emily Rose's room at the boarding house. Emily sits on a sofa next to Babbette the Younger, who has a comforting arm around Emily's shoulder. They are both watching the street party on a table-top video holo-screen emanating from a device on the coffee-table in front of them. Emily has that thousand-year stare. Babbette is simply solemn.

Caption: However, nobody really wins a war. Even the 'winners' lose.

Caption: 'Frenemies' no longer, Emily and Babbette became inseparable from that day onward.


Panel 4


The widow de León, sitting alone in her living room, dressed in black. She is contemplating a gift basket of flowers sitting on the coffee table in front of her. On the wall behind her we can see a photo of her with her husband Daniel from happier times.

Caption: Daniel de León's widow mourned her loss privately.