Strip 421 -- First Seen: 2010-04-19
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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.

Kickstarter successful and closed

The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.

Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.

(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Wide panel, establishing shot of the Singapore Minister of Transport (a very well-dressed, paunchy Malaysian) at a press conference. He has a phalanx of other suits on either side behind him all standing on a railway platform, and behind the phalanx, some shiny new subway cars on the tracks, ready to go. There's a crowd or news reporters in the foreground. In an inset, we see Robyn, who is narrating the scene.

Robyn: It started in Singapore, where I'm from.

Robyn: The Minister of Transport staged a big media event to introduce some shiny new cars that were going into service for the MRT.

Panel 2
A short ways down the platorm, we see a slightly younger and decidedly un-scruffy Robyn, standing near an open subway car door, smirking. We see a few other people in the frame, facing away from her and towards the Minister, who is off-panel.

Caption (Robyn): 'I thought it would be really funny if that corrupt stuffed shirt's new subway cars wouldn't move as he gave the media the grand tour.'


Panel 3
Close-up of Robyn's hand pressing a wad of chewing gum against a photocell in the door jamb.

Caption: 'While the Minister was showboating, I gummed one of the door's photocells.

Caption: 'Taking advantage of a design flaw dating back to the 1980s.'