Strip 415 -- First Seen: 2010-04-09
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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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The Transcript For This Page
Panel 1
Re-establish the scene: Arana and the girls, with their luggage, in the airlock. Doris is laying a hand on Fiorella's shoulder. (Put the girls on the left and Arana on the right)
Doris: Arana, I want to brag about my shipmate here.
Doris: She is a natural, new-out-of-the-box pistolera …
Panel 2
Two-shot of Fiorella and Doris, Fiorella is blushing a little.
Doris: … that's the feminine form of pistolero, I just made up.
Doris: Up until recently, she never so much as touched a gun.
Panel 3
Largish, flashback panel. We see Fiorella from behind, facing an array of target flats shaped and painted like an assortment of thugs, menacing aliens and monsters, along with some normal-looking bystanders and hostages. Fiorella is brandishing a laser pistol – which shoots a harmless beam of light, not something that could actually damage anything – and hitting bullseyes on the bad guys but not the innocents. Show Doris' head in an inset as she describes the scene.
Doris: In the Spiral, she got an almost perfect score for nailing the bad guys.
Doris: Even better, she didn't shoot even one good guy, hostage, or bystander.
Panel 4
Back to the now. Everyone is smiling.
Doris: She is not someone you want to piss off.
Arana: Promise me you are coming back.
Panel 5
Now the girls are on either side of Arana, kissing him on his cheeks.
Doris: That's a promise.
Fiorella: As soon as we can.
Panel 6
The girls are now inside the Split-Tail. Doris is making sure the hatch is sealed, while Fiorella moves to stow their luggage.
Doris: I love the interesting people we meet in this job.
Fiorella: Where to now, my Captain?
Panel 7
Exterior shot of the Split-Tail, exiting from the Monolith into space.
Doris (from inside the ship): Set course for Ceres. I'm ready to go home.
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