Strip 536 -- First Seen: 2010-09-27
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Ready for launch! The Kickstarter campaign to print the next volume of Quantum Vibe: Novo Palermo - Part 1 will take flight in just a couple of weeks on Oct 19th, 2026.

Your reward for backing our campaign starts with a personalized signed copy of the perfect bound printed collection of the online strip. You may also choose the ebook edition, a PDF downloadable from DriveThruComics.

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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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Outside Wally's bedroom. His parents intercept him coming back from the bathroom.
Gus: Your mother and I would like a word with you.
Wally: I did all my chores.

Panel 2
Cut to the family living room. Gus and Mary-Francis sit on either side of Wally, on the sofa.
Gus: We're concerned about the amount of time you're spending on the Tanglenet.
Mary-Francis: It's just not normal.

Panel 3
Same scene.
Gus: You're always fixated on these obtuse, academic subjects – Italian history, Victorian literature, para-genetics, differential geometry – and now you're compiling traffic data from newzine announcements?
Mary-Francis: That isn't normal either.

Panel 4
Gus lays a fatherly arm across Wally's shoulder, as his mom takes his hand in hers.
Gus: Wally, to make a living out here on the frontier you need to acquire practical knowledge and skills, not all this useless … stuff.
Mary-Francis: We want you to have a normal life.