Strip 478 -- First Seen: 2010-07-07
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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
Ernie is now putting the last leg-brace on the Mass Driver. Bert has moved over to stand near him.

Ernie: What if it's tungsten? What's that do for us?

Bert: Well …

Panel 2
Medium close-up on Bert.

Bert: In that case, Reggie takes a financial bath, but we'll come out ahead enough to fix up some things around the office and buy a few rounds at Callahan's.

Panel 3
Two-shot of Ernie and Bert, and part of the Mass Driver.

Ernie: That's quite a gap between tungsten and plutonium.

Ernie: How likely are we to find each of those possible metals?

Bert: Sorry, but plutonium is really, really unlikely. But so is tungsten.

Panel 4
Medium close-up of Bert.

Bert: Not much chance of gold, either. So it's most likely osmium, iridium or platinum.

Bert: So we are probably going to do pretty well or maybe really well.

Bert: I like the odds.