Strip 231 -- First Seen: 2009-08-03
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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.

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Panel 1
Cut to just underneath the airskin. The Pale Man is pulling himself through the gash he has cut in the skin, fighting against the air pressure.

Put a little head-shot of Tobi in the upper left corner to indicate he's the one talking in the caption box.

Caption (Tobi): 'Okay, he's cut a hole in the skin big enough to lower himself through.'

Panel 2
The Pale Man is now a dozen meters below the air skin, drifting slowly downward. He has his hand-held maneuvering unit out, and firing it at an upward 30-degree angle (to both slow his orbital velocity and push himself a bit downward)

Caption: 'Now he's taken out a hand-held maneuvering unit and is firing it to move himself down towards the Little Prince.'

Panel 3
Cut to Bert, Ernie and Tobi at the patio table. Tobi is gazing at a slightly upward angle and looking a bit puzzled.

Tobi: Hmm. I don't see any signs of a parachute.

Panel 4
Two-shot of Bert and Ernie, both looking towards Tobi (who is not in this frame). The brothers are both looking somewhat alarmed.

Bert: Don't you get it?

Ernie: He doesn't know about the black hole …

Bert: … and the high surface gravity it generates!