Strip 398 -- First Seen: 2010-03-22
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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
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