Strip 210 -- First Seen: 2009-07-03
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

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

I can't tell you how much I appreciate everyone who backed our Kickstarter project. One small matter remains: a couple of you have yet to provide your shipping address for your rewards. As soon as possible, please either fill out the Kickstarter survey request found on the Kickstarter site, or simply send us an email Orders address and we will ship your reward soon after. If you're wondering why you haven't received a notice about this via email, please check your spam folder.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
The elevator is on the ground, resting on a concrete platform which has one step leading down to the ground. A paved walkway leads away from the platform through a landscaped greenway. A waist-high handrail runs from the base of the platform along the side of the paved walkway. We can see the ground anchor of the nanotube ribbon next to the elevator. Drenkowski has already exited the car, the brothers stumble out, partly overcome by the unaccustomed gravity and partly because they can't quite believe what they're experiencing.

Drenkowski: Point 61gees, gentlemen.

Bert: This … is … impossible!

Panel 2
Three-shot of Drenkowski, Bert and Ernie. Bert has a quizzical expression.

Drenkowsk: Res ipsa loquitur.

Ernie: It's Latin, Bert. 'The thing speaks for itself.'

Panel 3
They have moved a short distance down the walkway. Bert and Ernie have firm grasps on the handrail. Drenkowki is pointing upward.

Drenkowski: Now, gentlemen, look up.

Panel 4
Looking past Bert and Ernie looking up, at a skyward angle – above them we can see the dark moonlet, looming quite large – about 8-10 times the apparent size of the moon seen from Earth, appearing to be poised on top of the thin nanotube ribbon.
Drenkowski (OP): That, gentlemen, is Damocles Station.
Drenkowski (2): I'm sure you understand how it got its name.


Panel 5
Horizon-angle shot of the brothers reeling with vertigo, only their grips on the handrail preventing them from falling backwards. Drenkowski is calm.

Drenkowski: By the way, the first time I rode down the ribbon, it wasn't until I got to the ground that I lost my lunch.
Panel 6
Drenkowski is now walking down the paved walkway, the brothers stumbling along behind with one hand on the handrail. They are recovering from their vertigo. Drenk is in the foreground, smiling slyly.

Drenkowski: Reverse acrophobia; who woulda guessed?

Panel 7
Wide shot. Drenkowski is leading them towards a classic late-1950s Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud that is parked at the end of the walkway, at the curb of a paved roadway.
Drenkowski: Boss collects this sort of stuff.
Drenkowski: (2): He likes things with 'cloud' or 'forest' in their name.