Strip 410 -- First Seen: 2010-04-02
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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
Re-establish the scene: The girls still dangling from their tether, look on in astonishment as the space navy squad are swarmed with stinging bees. One bee breaks off from the swarm and starts meandering towards the girls.

SFX: Bzzzzzzzzz

Panel 2
Two-shot of Fiorella and Doris, looking a little horrified.

Doris: Killer bees.

Buzz 2 (OP): Not really ...

Panel 3
One of the Bees, Buzz2, hovers in front of the girls

Buzz2: They have been injected with a modified form of curari.

Buzz2: They can still breath, blink and so forth, but they will have no control over their voluntary nervous systems for a couple of hours.


Panel 4
The girls and Buzz 2. The girls are looking at each other with expressions of schadenfreude.

Buzz 2: As the curari wears off, they will experience some discomfort as they regain the use of their muscles.



Panel 5
The girls and Buzz 2. Now the girls are looking curiously at their intercessor.

Fiorella: Uh, are you Buzz?

Buzz 2: Yes and No.

Buzz 2: We are AIs that exist within a swarm network. It is a holographic system that retains the actions and responses of all its member elements.

Panel 6
Medium closeup on Buzz 2.

Buzz 2: So now that your original Buzz has been destroyed, this unit has taken its place.

Panel 7
Two-shot of the girls, now looking relieved to the point of giddiness.
Fiorella (singing): Meet the new Buzz. Same as the old Buzz.
Doris: Won't get fooled again!

Panel 8
The girls hug each other and fall into fits of hysterical laughter.
Fiorella and Doris (in unison): Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!