Strip 422 -- First Seen: 2010-04-20
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Not-Safe dot Kickstarter

The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.

This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.

The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.

Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.

The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.

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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
The Minister of Transport, standing in one of the shiny new subway cars, looking about to blow a gasket. Some of his phalanx is with him, looking confused. We can see one of the subway doors nearby, still open.

Caption: 'With the photocell blocked, the doors wouldn't close, and the cars wouldn't move.'

Panel 2
On the platform, we see several newsies with cameras recording the scene, some of them smirking. Behind them we can see Robyn leaning against a pole or wall, just barely suppressing laughter.
Caption: 'I had a good laugh – for a little while.'

Panel 3
New scene. The still-angry Minister, with a few of his phalanx, are in a television monitoring room looking at a bank of monitors. One of the men points at one of the monitors.

Caption: 'Unfortunately one of the newsies caught me on video gumming the photocell.'

Panel 4
A very dismayed Robyn, wearing the same clothes as previously, being handcuffed by a policeman as two other cops stand by.
Caption: 'I was charged with 'endangering the function of the state,' and sent to the Singapore Youth Authority facility.