Strip 847 -- First Seen: 2011-12-15
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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

Strip 174
Panel 1
Bert at his desk, in his office.
Bert: Anyway, nobody is quite sure why the UW cloned this girl, but there are some theories.
Bert: One is that they just wanted to conduct some basic genetic research on the QT, so anti-cloning protesters – or worse, Teddies – couldn't screw up the resarch.

Panel 2
Cut to Tobi in his desk chair, listening.
Bert (filtered): A more paranoid theory was that the idea was to create stronger, dumber, more compliant sub-human workers or soldiers.
Bert (filtered): No one really knows, but like all government projects, it took on a life of its own.

Panel 3
Cut back to a medium shot of Bert, smirking a bit.
Bert: By the way, word is that Neanne is stronger than the average human, and highly intelligent and not compliant in any way.
Bert: She sounds like a typical 16-year-old, like Ba- ... Libby.