Strip 424 -- First Seen: 2010-04-22
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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
Robyn in a courtroom, facing a rather bored-looking judge.

Caption (Robyn): 'In court, I told my side of the story, but the judge couldn't've cared less.

Caption: 'I was tried and convicted of felony assault on an officer.'

Panel 2
Also in the court room, in the gallery, we see Robyn's parents. Her mother is a diminutive east-Indian; her father, a white New Zealander. Both look distraught, and helpless.

Caption: 'My parents are not wealthy, but they hired the best lawyer they could afford.

Caption: 'Not that it did me any good. There was nothing anyone could do.'

Panel 3
Robyn, downcast and in shackles, is escorted out of the court room by a pair of guards. In the background, we see her parents, looking completely distraught. Mother sobs in father's arms, both of them surrounded by friends who try to comfort them.
Caption: 'That was the last time I saw my parents.'


Panel 4
Robyn and some other older children, still in shackles, are escorted by guards across a spaceport tarmac towards a waiting lunar shuttle. Make it look utilitarian and depressing.
Caption: 'I was sentenced to five years at the Lunar Kiddie Slammer.'