Strip 482 -- First Seen: 2010-07-13
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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
Elevated shot of the mining assembly in operation – we can see rocks being ejected from the top of the Mass Driver. Bert is near the bore hole, monitoring the drilling, while Ernie is near the Mass Driver, making sure the dug-up regolith gets loaded and ejected properly.

Bert: According to the scans we still have a coupla-three meters to go.

Ernie: We've been at this for over 40 centimes. I'm bushed.

Panel 2
Ernie floats (via jet-pack) over to where Bert is standing.

Ernie: Let's knock off, get a good night's sleep, and get rich beyond our wildest dreams tomorrow.

Panel 3
The brothers jet-pack out over the rim of the crater they've been working in.
Bert: Suits me. But you know, my wildest dreams are very wild.

Panel 4
We see the brothers touching down near their shuttle landing site. Put the brothers in the background and the site in the foreground. We can tell it's the landing site because of the scorch-marks on the surface from their engine, and the four tie-down pitons in the ground, around the blast-mark, with their lines severed.
Bert: Son of a …
Ernie: … bitch.