Strip 778 -- First Seen: 2011-08-29
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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
A burner (about twice the size of the one which carried Guy Caillard to Ceres, way back when), is arcing across space.
Babbette (from the burner): So, what's so special about Mercury?
Babbette (thought): My man loves to lecture.
Panel 2
Reverse view so that we see the burner arcing past the Sun, which at this point looks more than twice the size as seen from Earth.
Reggie: One, the sun is two and two-thirds the size it appears from Terra. That's over seven times as wide as seen from Ceres.

Panel 3
Inside Babbette and Reggie's modest stateroom aboard the burner. It's a bit smaller than a Motel 6 room. Reggie is counting on his fingers; at the moment he has two of them pointing outward from his right hand.
Reggie: Two, it has the largest and most advanced paraterraformed habitats in the Solar System.
Reggie: They are magnificent.

Panel 4
Closer two-shot on Reggie and Babbette, who is giving him a questioning look.
Reggie: 'Paraterraforming,' or PTF, is the creation of Terra-like environments under an atmosphere cap – a transparent 'roof' as it were.