Strip 40 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-11-07
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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!

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Strip 40
Panel 1
Make panel large enough to include the strip logo, and re-establish the scene: Guy and Fiorella, with Bert and Ernie standing behind and to one side, stand before a raised dais on which King Reginald sits enthroned. Babbette the younger stands at the bottom and to one side of the dais. As Guy is speaking, he is holding up his wrist-band PDA, which is projecting a 20x15cm holographic image above it (we’ll get a better look at this in the next panels) of the document from which he is reading:

Caption: Agent Guy Caillard explains the Moon Treaty…

Guy: It has a truly noble aim, Your Majesty. This is explained in Article 4.

Panel 2
Guy pauses to make a sideways glance back at Bert and Ernie, who grin back at him sheepishly.

Guy: And I quote, ‘The exploration of the Moon and other celestial bodies…’

Panel 3
Two shot of Guy and Fiorella. Guy reads from his PDA holoscreen, Fiorella wears her poker face.

Guy: ‘… shall be the province of all mankind and shall be carried out for the benefit of, and in the interests of, all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development.
Panel 4
Medium shot on Babbette. She is looking bored with all this talky-talk.

Guy: ‘Due regard shall be paid to interests of present and future generations as well as to the need to promote higher standards of living conditions of economic and social progress and development in accordance with the Charter of the United World.’

Panel 5
Medium shot of Reggie. We may see Babbette’s head in a lower corner, looking up at him.

Reggie: So what you are telling me, uh, -damn!- us…

Reggie(2): is that the benefits derived from all the celestial bodies, belong to mankind as a whole, rather than to those who risked their lives, health and fortunes to extract them?

Panel 6
Two-shot of Guy and Fiorella. Fiorella has a wry grin, but Guy isn’t aware of her at the moment. He can barely contain his excitement.

Guy: Exactly, your Majesty!

Guy (2): And this found wealth is invested by the UW in the most disenfranchised and downtrodden members of the human family!

Panel 7
Looking past Guy, now on a roll, at Bert and Ernie standing behind him. The brothers are exchanging worried glances, Bert pursing his lips in a silent whistle.

Guy: And Ceres can lead the way in sharing its bounty with all mankind!

Panel 8
Medium close-up of Reggie, looking solemn.

Reggie: What you say, strikes a chord of understanding within us.

Reggie (2): We will meet with our advisers to study your Moon Treaty and other materials. Appear before us prior to your departure. You will be given an appropriate response.