Strip 223 -- First Seen: 2009-07-22
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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
Another panel illustrating Tobi's thoughts. This time, we have a 1990s style computer geek typing intensely at his keyboard while he glares into his monitor. We can see some tables and shelving behind him full of partially-assembled hardware and technical manuals. And a girlie poster.

Tobi (OP): Most people don't remember the old Internet was once a fresh new frontier of liberated communications.

Panel 2
Looking of the shoulder of a 20-something urban woman at her laptop computer, which happens to be sitting on a table. On the computer screen is the main page for Leakipedia, an actual whistle-blower website. Get in close enough to the laptop that we can clearly see the web page on it. (Go ahead and do a screen grab of their site, then copy into the page. They'll appreciate the publicity.)

Tobi: (OP) For a while, anyone could be a broadcaster, and new encryption technologies also made possible private and anonymous messages.

Panel 3
The same nerd, now 20 years older, hands cuffed behind him doing a Perp Walk in a phalanx of uniformed cops.

Tobi: Governments can't stand people either broadcasting freely or having private communications, so they eventually found ways to bridle the Internet and reign those 'pirates' in.