Strip 840 -- First Seen: 2011-12-06
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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
We are in the hearing room now, Pablo seated at his desk. We can see the backs of some of the audience's heads in the lower part of the panel.
Pablo: Before I get into my assessment, I'm going to read a quote by someone I have always liked.
Pablo: It's from George Polya, who was a professor of mathematics, but I think he would have made a great jurist.
Panel 2
Head-and-shoulders shot of Pablo in the lower left corner of the panel, to make room for large dialog balloons with the quote.
Pablo: 'Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes towards rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry.
Pablo 'To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose o the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.'
Panel 3
Medium shot of Pablo at his desk.
Pablo: The Belt's case law is pretty clear on a matter like this: Emily must pay all of Anton's direct and indirect losses and expenses.

Panel 4
Waist-up shot of Emily, looking as if she's about to swoon.
Pablo (OP): If that takes fitting her with a track-and-disable collar while she works to pay off the debt, so be it.