Strip 370 -- First Seen: 2010-02-12
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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!

A Little House Cleaning

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
We are back at Arana Awatere's theme park. Doris and Fiorella are just leaving Arana's office after their conference. They are moving along a corridor, pulling themselves along in zero-gee via hand-grips in the walls. Buzz is flying along ahead of them.

Doris: So Arana told us to 'get out there and enjoy' ourselves.

Doris: I don't know about you, but I'd like to get a few hours of sleep before we sally forth.

Panel 2
They continue along the corridor. We see them passing an intersection.

Fiorella: No argument from me.

Fiorella: Buzz, is there someplace we can sleep for a bit?

Panel 3
The girls pause, eyes widening, as Buzz turns to answer them.

Buzz: Yes, Fiorella. Arana has put the presidential suite at your disposal.

Panel 4
Same shot. The girls cast sideways glances at each other as Buzz turns to lead the way.

Buzz: Please follow me.

Panel 5
Very large panel, taking entire remainder of page. Allow space for a small inset Panel 6 in the lower right.

Buzz leads the girls into a hangar, filled with a variety of fanciful flying passenger vehicles. Included are a mechanical winged horse, a 2/3-scale model of Baron von Richtofen's red tri-plane ('the bloody Red Baron'), the Wright Brother's plane, the Apollo lunar lander, a flying carpet, a flying saucer, a convincing 'magic cloud,' something that looks like a giant version of Buzz with 'Buzz Bomb' stenciled on the side,and if there's room, any other fanciful conveyance you can think of.

This is a zero-gee area, full of handrails to assist in human movement. The room is hexagonal, with no particular 'floor'. The aircraft appear to be sitting on walls, ceiling, etc.

Buzz: Doris and Fiorella, these are personal vehicles for use within the park's airskin.

Buzz: Are there any craft here that appeal to you?

Panel 6
Close-up of Doris, grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

Doris: Oh, yeah.