Strip 533 -- First Seen: 2010-09-22
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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
Wide Panel: Wally's bedroom, at his family's residence. Not your typical teen-aged boy's room – it's kept fairly tidy. Posters on walls from movies featuring famous fictional detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe. He's at his desk, gazing at his computer holoscreen.
Voice of Wally's mom (from outside room): Wally? Did you load the dishwasher like I asked you to?
Wally: Yes, Mom.

Panel 2
Looking over Wally's shoulder at the holoscreen. It shows the main page of the Belt Examiner, an online news/blog/tribune (a descendent of the Examiner.com, a network of local news websites featuring articles by citizen journalists in a blog-like platform).
Wally's Mom: Did you re-set the reactor coils like your father asked you to?
Wally: Yes, Mom.

Panel 3
Close-up on the screen. We see a section labeled at the top: Archives: MD 65.130; and underneath, a section labeled “Arrivals Due This Decaday.” and a listing that's too small for us to be able to read, but it's a listing of ship names and scheduled arrival dates.
Wally's mom: Did you feed the cat like, uh, well, did you feed the cat?
Wally: Yes, Mom.