Strip 78 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-12-31
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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!

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The Transcript For This Page

Strip 78

Panel 1
Wide panel. Two space-suited figures, under power of the rocket-packs they’re wearing, glide over the surface of one of Ghetty’s large iron boulders, tracing the line of Corridor 12 below them. Following behind them are four of the forkbots seen in the Carbon Pit, their carrying arms empty. One figure, Jay, is carrying a large bag of tools. The other, Bert, is carrying two coils of safety line, each about 50 meters long, one over each shoulder.

Bert: So what’s the deal with the forkbots?

Panel 2
Medium close two-shot of Jay and Bert, in their suits.

Jay: Once we cut the Section completely free of the Corridor, we secure those safety lines you’re carrying, and the forkbots will tug the Section into the large airlock at Iron Works, where you were earlier.

Panel 3
We see part of the stricken Section 12-327 in the foreground, as Jay and Bert approach from the background left.


Bert: What if our efforts break the Section open?

Jay: They’ll die sooner rather than later. You have a better idea?