Strip 494 -- First Seen: 2010-07-29
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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!

A Little House Cleaning

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Distance shot of the brothers, standing at the rim of the crater containing their excavation assemblage. Bert is standing sort of slumped, looking dejected.

Bert: I'd give anything for that Handbook right now. Too bad we don't have a copy.
Ernie: We do.
 
Panel 2
Medium two-shot of the Brothers, turned to look at each other. Ernie is tapping the back of his helmeted head.

Bert: Do not.
Ernie: Do so.
Ernie: I have a file with the images of the entire original 2012 version in my Ock.
 
Panel 3
Medium close-up of Ernie. In the space around his head, we see a collage of arcing lines, circles, and various mathematical formulas. Look up the 'orbital mechanics' page in Wikipedia for examples of what the formulas look like.

Ernie: Right now, I'm instructing the ock to integrate the orbital mechanics formulas and charts into its logic module.
 
Panel 4
Both the brothers start gliding forward again.
 
Ernie: It'll be fully usable by the time we are finished modifying the mass driver.
Bert: Way to go Ernie!