Strip 80 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2009-01-02
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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!

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Strip 80

Panel 1
Larger panel (leave some room for the logo). The forkbots have just started pulling Section 12-327 away from the asteroid surface, as Bert and Jay hover close-by in their spacesuits.

Jay: Got it! Section is clear, repeat, Section is clear of the surface.

Jay (2): Begin vector towards Iron Works.

Bert: Lorna? How are you guys doing in there?


Panel 2
Inside the darkened Section, all we see of Guy, Fiorella and Lorna is a cocoon of thermal blanket.


Lorna (from inside cocoon): Still in one piece, far as I can tell. How long till we reach Iron Works?


Panel 3
Inside the cocoon, tight close-up three-shot of Guy, Fiorella, and Lorna. Lorna is speaking to her companions


Bert (from Lorna’s comm.): Jay says about 3 centimes.

Lorna: That’s about 45 Terran minutes.

Panel 4
Oustide the cocoon again.

Guy: By Barak, we’re going to make it!

Fiorella: Uh-oh. What’s that sound?

SFX: sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss




Panel 5
The cocoon drifts towards the source of the hissing, a small crack in one bulkhead.

Guy: I think this problem may be self-correcting.

Panel 6
Drawn by the escaping air, cocoon bumps up against the bulkhead crack. There’s a bit of a bend in the cocoon to indicate the part of the cocoon making contact is somebody’s butt.

SFX: Thwmp

Fiorella: What was that?

Guy: I believe that is my skinny, Gallic derriere saving yours, ma Cherie.

Panel 7

Inside the cocoon, tight shot of Guy, Fiorella, Lorna. Guy is grimacing as his flesh is getting slowly sucked into the crack. Fiorella looks at him with concern. Lorna is trying hard not to grin.

Fiorella: Are you okay?

Lorna: If we get out of this soon enough, he will be. But he’ll have one hell of a hickey on his fanny.