Strip 178 -- First Seen: 2009-05-20
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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
Side-view of Emily, Reggie, Harris' corpse, Young. Emily is shooting Young in the head.

SFX: BLAMM!

Panel 2
Holding the still-smoking gun pointed downward in her right hand, Emily walks towards Bert. Show as many of the other Cerereans as space permits. She is looking downcast.
No dialog.

Panel 3
Emily hands Bert his gun back, handle first [but pointed downward; gun safety requires that she must not “cover” herself or anyone else]. Emily is still downcast, Bert is somber. Babbette is moving past the others towards Emily and Bert.

No dialog.

Panel 4
Emily collapses into Bert's arms, weeping uncontrollably. Babbette is next to them, laying a comforting hand on her shoulder. If space permits show Fiorella turning off her camera.