Strip 655 -- First Seen: 2011-03-11
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Not-Safe dot Kickstarter

The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.

This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.

The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.

Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.

The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.

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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Babbette and Reggie walking down a hotel corridor. (In Mars' .38g gravity, the walk would almost look Earth-normal but they'd still have a slight forward tilt.)
Caption: Two days later:
Reggie: Instead of the tube, I've arranged for special ground transportation for us.
Babbette: Nobody travels above ground anymore. The tubes go everywhere.

Panel 2
Babbette and Reggie in an elevator.
Reggie: I have something more … elegant in mind for my blushing bride.
Babbette: I haven't blushed since I was 15 and we ain't even hitched yet.
Babbette: But this old gal is ready for a new experience.

Panel 3
Small panel, close 2-shot of Reggie and Babbette.
Reggie: Everything old is new again, including us.

Panel 4
Larger panel, the two are in a garage standing next to the Dymaxion Car. (see the reference photo Sandy sent on 10/13. Also, here's a YouTube video of the original prototype in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLZE23EJKs )
Reggie: Behold the Dymaxion Car.
Reggie: Designed by Buckminster Fuller in the 1930s, it was resurrected on Mars as an early pressurized surface vehicle.

Panel 5
Reggie seated in the driver's seat of the Dymaxion Car, with Babbette in the passenger seat. Instead of a steering wheel, there's a large joystick mounted front and center. Babbette looks a little nervous, now it's Reggie's turn to look gleeful.
Babbette: You are checked out in this buggy, right?
Reggie: No worries – there's an AI to take over if I screw up.

Panel 6
The Dymaxion Car roars out into the open Martian surface, right through the airskin covering the garage doorway. In this frame, the car has just emerged from the doorway, and we can see the airskin stretched outward and just touching the back end of the super-streamlined vehicle.
SFX: ROOOOOOM