Strip 333 -- First Seen: 2009-12-23
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

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

I can't tell you how much I appreciate everyone who backed our Kickstarter project. One small matter remains: a couple of you have yet to provide your shipping address for your rewards. As soon as possible, please either fill out the Kickstarter survey request found on the Kickstarter site, or simply send us an email Orders address and we will ship your reward soon after. If you're wondering why you haven't received a notice about this via email, please check your spam folder.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Continue television sequence. Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon, Newsreader is starting to speak but Harmon plows ahead, cutting him off.

Newsreader: Then how ...

Harmon: In this case, however, the creator of the carvings gave us an unambiguous epoch; a point in time.

Panel 2
Harmon in full-screen, holding up a large (about 24-inch square) placard containing a photograph of the carvings. He is pointing to a place that shows a stylized image of Jupiter, being impacted by the first of nine smaller bodies in a line. (Also, there is a spiral line starting at Jupiter and looping the Sun several times. There are some other lines and runes in the area.

Harmon: This clearly represents the first impact of Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter, at 20:15 UTC on July 16, 1994.

Harmon: So now we have our epoch date and time.

Panel 3
Medium shot of the Newsreader, looking a bit slack-jawed and vacant-eyed. This is all too much for him. Too much science hurts his brain.

Harmon (OP): So this diagram is telling us that in approximately 31 Terran hours – Wednesday at 14:22 UTC – something will be at 2.476 astronomical units from the Sun at an angular separation of 17.359 degrees in advance of Jupiter's sidereal location in orbit.

Panel
Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon. Newsreader is just looking dazed. Harmon is smiling contentedly.

Harmon: Thank you, I will not be taking any further questions at this time.