Strip 490 -- First Seen: 2010-07-23
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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 two-shot of the brothers. Bert has his hands on hips in an expression of mild exasperation. Ernie's stance expresses excitement.
 
Bert: Shoot you to Dactyl with the Mass Driver.
 
Ernie: Yeah! I can fit inside the coils.
 
 
Panel 2
Bert waxes professorial again. Make panel large enough to include all the dialog and Ernie.
Bert: One, the delta-V needed to launch you all the way would crush you.
Bert: Two, your center of gravity would probably change under acceleration, which would throw you off course, even if it were possible to plot a trajectory.
Bert: Three ...
Ernie: I can compute the trajectory.
 
Panel 3
Another two-shot of the brothers, face to face.
Bert: Cannot!
Ernie: Can so!
Ernie: Listen, Bert, my ock and optical enhancements can measure all parameters and give us a ballistic solution, no sweat.
 
Panel 4
Medium close-up on Bert, plowing on.
 
Bert: Three, how are you going to stop at the other end?
 
Panel 5
Medium close-up on Ernie.
 
Ernie: Very rapidly, I guess.
 
Ernie: If I live through the initial impact, the autodoc on board the ship could probably fix me up.
 
 
Panel 6
Two-shot of the Brothers focusing on Bert, who has his hands on his hips again in that exasperated pose.
                       
Bert: So you crawl your shattered body – that's assuming you don't just fly right past Dactyl – so you crawl to our ship, beat up the bad guys and jump in the doc.
 
Bert: Is that your idea? Great plan, Ernie.
 
Panel 7
Medium shot of Ernie, hands on his hips with shoulders back  in a pose more of defiance, his face looking completely serious.
 
Ernie: Dammit, Bert, it's the best play we have.
 
Ernie: So have you got a better plan?