Strip 451 -- First Seen: 2010-05-31
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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.

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Panel 1
Robyn and Carla within the airlock. Hurricane-force wind is rushing through, Robyn braces herself and (with an extended arm across her torso) Carla against the airlock wall, next to the open hatch. Above them, we see a siren light flashing.

SFX: BA-WOOP! BA-WOOP! BA-WOOP!

Caption (Robyn): 'It took all my strength to brace myself against the airlock wall to keep Carla and myself from being blown through the lock and out that window.'

Panel 2
From behind Robyn, we see her peering through the open hatchway into the apartment, where Norman is desperately hanging onto the heavy loveseat by his fingertips, the wind trying to suck him out the window.

Caption (Robyn): 'Now it was Norman trying to breathe vacuum.'

Panel 3
Medium close-up on Robyn, her jaw set and anger in her eyes.

Robyn: Fly, Norman fly.

Panel 4
Norman loses his grip on the loveseat and flies backward through the shattered window.

Caption (Robyn): 'Later, Sajjan said the one-mile fall must've taken 44 seconds, and Norman was moving at260kph when he hit the surface.'