Strip 171 -- First Seen: 2009-05-11
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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. Inside an unused warehouse, establishing shot: Admiral Harris and Weapons Officer William Young are seated in simple chairs with wrought-iron backs. Harris has his hands bound behind him and also to the chair back; at this moment Bert is binding Young's hands behind him. Harris and Young are wearing their uniform trousers, no shoes, shirts but no jackets. Also present are Reggie, Fiorella, Guy, and Ernie. Fiorella has a small stereo-optic video camera mounted on a tripod, trained on the two prisoners.

Caption: The issue of Harris and the weapons officer remained.

Caption (2): As is always the case on Ceres, it was dealt with informally, by those who were personally involved.

Panel 2
Looking at Reggie and Fiorella with her vid camera from behind the seated prisoners.
Reggie: I have asked Sov. Stellina here to t-cast these proceedings, because I want everyone in human space to see and understand how evil is dealt with in the Belt.

Panel 3
Looking from behind Reggie at Harris and Young. Harris looks angry. Young looks frightened.

Reggie: You are accused of murdering Daniel de León, Alfred Rose and his wife Julia Rose, and their two sons, Robert and William Rose.

Reggie: Due to chance, Alfred and Julia's daughter, Emily Rose, escaped death.