Strip 509 -- First Seen: 2010-08-19
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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
Medium shot of the exhaust-end of the Mass Driver. Two jet-packs and several chunks of hopper, along with the cutting torch, shoot out of it.
SFX: FOOSH!
Panel 2
At the other end of the Mass Driver, the brothers are laying prone across the bare surface, clinging to small braces that had been used to attack the hoppers, using them as hand-holds. Ernie has his head looking around the side of the MD, looking at Dactyl.

Bert: So, how's it look?
Ernie: …

Panel 3
Medium close up of Ernie looking levelly at Bert.

Ernie: We are going to miss Dactyl ...
Ernie: But we will pass – very slowly – somewhere between 10 and 15 meters off the surface.
Panel 4
Tighter two-shot of the brothers.

Ernie: Bert, that is jumping distance.
Bert: Oh, that's a relief, I thought …
Ernie: Bert, that was the good news.