Strip 269 -- First Seen: 2009-09-24
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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!

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Looking over Heinrich's shoulder at Reggie (put Heinrich in foreground left and Reggie in background right.

Heinrich: Perhaps so, but old customs can be very persistent.

Reggie: Don't I know it. But what's this got to do with a ban on electronics?

Panel 2
Medium shot of Heinrich, explaining.
Heinrich: The Array sits in a deep crater near the South Pole, shielding it from Mars' and the inner planets' RF – radio frequency – transmissions.

Heinrich: This is necessary, because the Array is listening for the very faintest radio signals from across the light years.

Panel 3
Heinrich continues his explanation – shift angles a bit. Maybe we can see one of the other students sitting next to him, smirking slightly at the 'Simpsons' remark.
Heinrich: If there are radio-using alien civilizations out there, we want to make sure we are hearing them rather than 'Doctor Who' reruns from Terra.

Panel 4
Medium shot of Reggie, listening thoughtfully to Heinrich.
Heinrich (OP): So we are allowed nothing that would create electromagnetic anomalies that might be interpreted as an intelligent signal from ET.