Strip 396 -- First Seen: 2010-03-18
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Launch Alert!

Ready for launch! The Kickstarter campaign to print the next volume of Quantum Vibe: Novo Palermo - Part 1 will take flight in just a couple of weeks on Oct 19th, 2026.

Your reward for backing our campaign starts with a personalized signed copy of the perfect bound printed collection of the online strip. You may also choose the ebook edition, a PDF downloadable from DriveThruComics.

And back by popular demand, coasters, magnets and stickers. Click on the art on the left, to go to our pre-launch page where you can check on updates and sign up for notifications on our campaign.

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
Narrow panel, two-shot of Doris and Fiorella in their plane, looking almost overcome with emotion.

Doris: I've never heard of this Norman Borlaug before ...


Panel 2
Large panel. The girls and their plane are dwarfed by a large globe (encased inside a larger, transparent globe) which is a stylized representation of Earth. Norman Borlaug stands on the equatorial Atlantic, holding forth a clutch of grain stalks in one upraised hand, while holding a small African child in the crook of his other elbow. Standing to his left and right, on South America and Africa, are people of all ages from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Directly in front of the girls is a 4x3x1 meter floating box sporting a plaque with 'Norman Borlaug' visible at the top and some unreadable text underneath, which explains who he was.

Doris: … but now I'll never forget him.