Strip 368 -- First Seen: 2010-02-10
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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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Wide panel/establishing shot, Guy Caillard's knife-fighting class. Actually, it's Bryce Carson's class – Bryce is 40-ish, physically fit, mixed African/Chinese descent, friendly attitude. Bryce and his students are wearing sweat-clothes with cloth belts, and Chinese-style cloth slippers, and each wields a 'red knife,' which is a plastic, soft-tipped replica of a 'fighting knife,' such being a knife with a double-edged, six-inch blade, a short hand guard, and a six-inch handle. Since we're not doing full color, you can't actually make these red knives red, but do your best to make them look like plastic. There are only three students: One is Donielle, a plain young woman a bit on the pudgy side; Guy, and young Wally Cooper, now about 14 Earth years, who Bryce is introducing.

Bryce: Time to start the knife-fighting class, and today we welcome our new student, Wally Cooper.

Panel 2
Three-shot of the students. Donielle on the left, Guy in the center, Wally on the right. Guy reaches out with his left hand and condescendingly pats Wally on the head.

Guy: Ah, young Sv. Cooper. Lost interest in pranking newcomers, I hope?

Panel 3
Wally pokes the end of his practice knife into Guy's chest in a quick 'touché' move, catching Guy flat-footed. Donielle giggles.

Wally: Fortunately for you, yeah.