Strip 504 -- First Seen: 2010-08-12
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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
Looking at the Mass Driver approaching Dactyl. The Mass Driver is now oriented with its exhaust-end pointed in the general direction of Dactyl's path as its orbit carries it along to meet them. Dactyl is a little over 3 kilometers away now, and is large enough we can see the deep crater in its face, in which we see, still very small at this distance, Little Toot (the Brothers' ship), and another ship about half its size. The shuttles are there too but may be too small to be seen.
Caption: Almost eight centimes after turn-over:
Ernie: Just three klicks to go, Bert. It's looking good.
Ernie: I'd say 3 or 4 rocks should do it. 
Panel 2
Medium shot of the brothers in their seat, with Ernie looking off on one direction as Bert is reaching way over into one of the nearly-empty hoppers.

Ernie: Then a short jaunt across Dactyl and we can kick some bad guy butt.
Ernie: Then we fly to Ida and finish the job with lasers – crude, but effective – steam back home with our vast riches ...
Panel 3
Close-up of Ernie, smiling as he imagines what he's going to do.

Ernie: … turn these monkeys – the survivors, at least – over for arbitration damages and take long, hot showers.
Ernie: After that, I'm going out for a nice piece …
Bert (OP): Uh, Ernie?
Panel 4
Medium shot showing Bert leaning over one of the hoppers, holding a medium-sized stone in each hand. His expression is tense. Ernie is looking over at him, also with a tense expression

Bert: We only have two big rocks, and a dozen or so little ones.