Strip 585 -- First Seen: 2010-12-03
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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
At the restaurant in the Hôtel de Crillon. This time Merry is having lunch with the boys, keeping in touch. Merry is speaking to Lawrence.
Merry: So, Lawrence, you and Kinko are both moving out tomorrow?
Lawrence: Yeah, we both got jobs at NoPoTo-2, and the commute from here is a real bitch – pardon the expression.

Panel 2
Kinko, Merry and Lawrence
Kinko: Yeah, we're getting a 2-bedroom apartment at the tower.
Merry (to Lawrence): So I'd heard Kinko got that hog-farming job, but how did you end up working there?

Panel 3
Medium shot of Lawrence, smiling and shrugging.
Lawrence: Hey, not many people know I'm a master grower as well as a, ah, consumer of the herb superb.

Panel 4
Flash-back scene, Lawrence tending a large indoor marijuana 'grow garden,' hydroponic trays filled with 5-foot tall, blossoming hemp plants. He's carefully examining one of the buds attached to one of the plants.
Caption (Lawrence): 'I was once the top grower in Mendocino County, in the California sector.
Caption: 'My customers referred to the doobies from my plants as 'Larry Loads.'

Panel 5
Cut to a scene at the Mojave Spaceport on Terra. In a darkened corner, Lawrence is meeting with Kinko and Morris, who is handing #10 envelopes to the other two men while looking over his shoulder. The scene is very paranoid-tense.
Caption (Lawrence): 'Unfortunately the UW did not share my customers' high regard for my product.
Caption: 'I was just one step ahead of them when I met Lawrence and Morris.

Panel 6
Back to the hotel restaurant, Lawrence is finishing his story. We see everyone at the table. Kinko is raising his glass to Morris in a toast-gesture, but Morris is looking bored.
Lawrence: Morris had connections and got us letters of transit, that allowed us to escape from Terra.
Kinko: Yeah, man, we owe our freedom to Morris.
Morris: Damn straight.