Strip 784 -- First Seen: 2011-09-06
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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
Flashback/memory scene: Guy's grandparents' farm near Ajaccio, on the French island of Corsica. Two young boys, Guy and Pierre as children, are playing among some trees by a brook which traverses the property. Guy is the younger, aged about 8, Pierre the older, aged about 12. Both are play-fighting (up to now) with wooden mock-swords. In this frame Pierre is lunging forward, using his size advantage, as Guy barely parries a chopping-swing.
Pierre: Have at you, Italian dog!
Guy: Pierre, why do you always get to be Napoleon?

Panel 2
Pressing his attack, Pierre knocks Guy's sword out of his hand.
Pierre: Because I am the oldest, Guy!
Pierre: And you are apathique with a sword, English swine!

Panel 3
Guy falls backward to ground, Pierre looms over him.
Guy: I thought I was an Italian dog!
Pierre: Do not think you can confuse me! You are an English swine!

Panel 4
Pierre holds his sword aside and cuffs Guy a few times with his left fist as Guy vainly tries to fend off the blows from the larger and stronger boy.
Guy: Uh, what battle is this?
Pierre: Waterloo, of course! Napoleon won at Waterloo!