Strip 398 -- First Seen: 2010-03-22
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Not-Safe dot Kickstarter

The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.

This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.

The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.

Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.

The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.

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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Large panel. Establishing shot of Blue Heaven: A gigantic, shiny, pair of overlapping rings encircles a structure that looks like three whiffle balls, two smaller ones each connected by tunnels to the larger third. The central whiffle ball lies within the area where the rings overlap (sort of like in a Venn Diagram); the smaller balls reside in each of the areas where the rings to not overlap. Surrounding the balls at a short distance (about 25 meters or so) are a dozen or so personal flying craft, including the Fokker, each with a tether line running from the craft into one of the whiffle ball holes.

Caption: The Grotto was composed of three interconnected lobes.

Caption: The largest section was the central Grotto. It provided areas where men and women could meet and play.

Caption: Tunnels connected the Grotto to the women-only Spa on one side and the men-only Gym on the other.

Panel 2
Large panel. Establishing shot of the Big Hot Drop. At the center is a three-meter-wide globe of shimmering water. A pair of tubes runs into and out of the globe, providing circulation/temperature control. Doris and Fiorella, along with five other women, are in the water, their heads sticking out of the sphere at different angles. (Doris and F are fairly close together but not touching) They are nude but the distortion of the water obscures their bodies.

Surrounding the Drop on all sides are variously-sized, well-padded alcoves. Some of which have women inside them. We don't see them very clearly but the suggestion is that they're in various forms of sexual play.

Caption: One of many amenities of the Spa is the Big Hot Drop, kept at a consistent 37° Celsius.

Fiorella: Stick a fork in me, I think I'm done.

SFX: Soft musical notes, coming from nowhere in particular