Strip 223 -- First Seen: 2009-07-22
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QV on a short break

QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.

In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.

Kickstarter successful and closed

The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.

Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.

(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

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.