Strip 443 -- First Seen: 2010-05-19
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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
Robyn, still in her prison jumpsuit (she also has a pass badge clipped to her lapel but we can't see it in this panel with her back mostly to us) and looking nervous, pressing the door buzzer at the outer-airlock hatch to Norman's apartment (there's a nameplate next to the hatch).

Caption: 22:00 on Thursday

SFX: b-deep b-deep

Panel 2
The hatch opens inward, and we see Carla, standing within the 2-meter-long airlock connecting the hallway and the apartment. Carla is about 4 inches taller than Robyn, barely 18, blond, and fairly pretty, with D-cup breasts. She does not look happy and obviously isn't a volunteer 'uh … personal assistant.' She speaks perfunctorily.

Carla: Hi, I'm Carla. Please come in, Robyn.

Carla: We've been expecting you.

Panel 3
Wide panel, establishing shot of Norman's apartment. Reverse angle so we see Robyn walking through the inner hatchway as Carla stands to one side. The living room is decorated in early 'Playboy Philosophy.' Walls covered in dark-flocked wallpaper, a few cheap reproductions of Leroy Neiman semi-abstract sports paintings. Important to include: a large Alexander Calder-'inspired' mobile and ESPECIALLY a cheap knockoff of a Eusebio Sempere metal sculpture made of stainless steel rods of varying lengths.

The knock-off should not be as wide and should have fewer rods. Some of the rods should be about a meter or so long.

Robyn (thought): Tres bordello