Strip 760 -- First Seen: 2011-08-03
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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
Tall panel. Distance shot of the Novo Argo emerging from a cloud bank. We can see several of the 'longhorns' in the lower foreground.
Harmon (filtered): Hey, I can see you!
Harmon: Hold short, please – the longhorns seem to be getting agitated ...

Panel 2
Large panel. A pack of 24 'orcas' – actually stingray-shaped, white, more than twice the size of the longhorns and with writhing bundles of man-of-war-like tentacles hanging from their undersides, sweep through the herd from a low angle on three sides. Each orca has something like an 'eye' on the leading edge, just on the underside. It's 'mouth' is in the center of its tentacles, rather like a squid.
It should look like a coordinated attack. The longhorns are in a panic, some of them fending off the invaders with their spikes, but others writhing in the clutches of the 'orcas'' stinging tentacles.
Caption: The scene suddenly exploded with motion and sound.
Caption: A group of huge, ghostly-white creatures swept through the herd of longhorns, sweeping them up in their stinging tentacles.
Caption: The air was thick with the longhorns' pitiful cries of fear and pain.