Strip 838 -- First Seen: 2011-12-02
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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!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Three shot of Frank, Babbette and Reggie, all grinning as they visualize the situation.
Frank: I think backed-up toilets would work better than a blackout, to bring them to the bargaining table.

Panel 2
Same shot, now all three are laughing heartily.
SFX: Laughter

Panel 3
Frank, Babbette and Reggie, recovering from their laughing.
Frank: You know, the Tattler is a good rag. We do good investigative reporting in addition to the gossip stuff.
Frank: One of our reporters is following a lead about a Terran industrialist with deep connections to the UW military.

Panel 4
Medium close-up on Frank, now serious again.
Frank: He and a UW general are involved in some hush-hush cloning research.
Frank: It seems the old Groom Lake facilities have been used to recreate some Pleistocene fauna.

Panel 5
Two-shot of Babbette and Reggie. Babbette is looking a bit troubled, but Reggie is calm.
Reggie: Yeah, everybody knows about the resurrected mammoths, giant ground sloths and such.
Reggie: So what?
Panel 6
Medium close-up on Frank.
Frank: Yes, but what do you know about the cloned Neanderthal?
Caption: To be continued!