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Strip 232 -- First Seen: 2009-08-04
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What Comes Next

The War is Over. We Won.

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
Cut back to the Pale Man, now several hundred meters below the air skin. He's starting to fall a bit faster, but not yet alarmingly so. He's no longer firing the maneuvering unit. Put a small head-shot of Bert in the upper left corner to show he's the one talking in the caption.

Caption (Bert): I bet he just plans to float down to the surface and use the maneuvering unit as a retrorocket to cushion his landing.
Panel 2
Cut back to Bert, Ernie and Tobi at the patio table.

Bert: He has no idea what he's in for.

Ernie: Tobi, what's the escape velocity for the Little Prince?

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Tobi, hand on chin in a thoughtful pose. (Leave room for balloons.)

Tobi: It varies from the poles to the equator, but it's in the 850 kph range.

Tobi: He won't get up to those speeds, because TLP's air density is about that of Earth's. His terminal velocity will be about 200 kph.

Panel 4
Cut back to the Pale Man, now falling alarmingly fast, desperately but ineffectually blasting his maneuvering unit downward.

Caption: 'Of course that's fast enough to ruin his whole day.'



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