Strip 274 -- First Seen: 2009-10-01
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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
Wide panel. Pan across each of the students describing the music.

Manjula: It was – very faint at first.

Second student: It seemed to grow almost organically out of the background, the wind noise.

Heinrich: After a while, you could not ignore it. It seemed to demand attention.

Fourth student: Sometimes, it wasn't only music. There were also, uh, voices.

Fifth student: But always vague, and ethereal.

Irina: Not all of us heard voices.

Seventh Student: But we did all hear the same music.


Panel 2
Angle shot so we see Reggie in the background left, and Fourth Student and Heinrich (from behind) in the right foreground.
Reggie: Waitaminit. How do you know it was the same music?

Fourth student: Heinrich and I both have musical backgrounds. We each transcribed the music we heard ...

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Reggie, reacting in shock to what the student is saying.
Fourth student: When we compared notes, we saw they were virtually identical.