Strip 224 -- First Seen: 2009-07-23
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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 illustrative panel. A 20-years-younger Tobi, this time dressed in cargo pants and a [pizza stained] t-shirt under a loose, open-fronted hoodie, is in the left side of the frame, closing a knife-type switch mounted on a wall which is positioned in the middle of the panel. On the right is a great tangle of white looping lines against a dark background that has stars in it – a sort of stylistic representation of Tanglenet. [Let's make sure the reader understands this a stylized concept. Maybe the Tanglenet concept is shown in a thought bubble above Tobi.]
Tobi (OP): Tanglenet was one of the most disruptive technologies in human history, because it fulfilled the Internet's promise.

Panel 2
A darkened conference room full of powerful-looking people seated at a long table, with one of them at the end pointing at some graphs on a large (51” diagonal) HDTV display.
Tobi (OP): Forget the phone, television or the Internet. The Tanglenet hurt governments way more.

Panel 3
Silhouettes of two men, facing each other, talking on their cellphones. Outline the phones so we can see them. One of the silhouettes is wearing a short-brimmed fedora. The other one is wearing a turban.

Tobi: Tanglenet cannot be eavesdropped on, traced, or jammed.

Tobi (2): Any dissident group, rebels, smugglers, or even terrorists can communicate, share info and make plans in complete secrecy.


Panel 4
Back at Tobi's table, medium shot of Tobi sipping on his tea.
Tobi: Imagine what fears that put in the hearts of repressive governments everywhere.