Strip 96 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2009-01-26
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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
Re-establish the scene of Bert, Reggie and Guy at the conference table.

Caption: Guy Caillard is shocked when ‘King Reginald’ presents him with a claim against United World for 80 billion Continentals.

Guy: It says funds are to be paid to an account in the name of the King’s Court Unfortunates Fund.

Guy (2): How can that be? Much of the 80 billion is owed to individual citizens.

Panel 2
Two-shot of Reggie and Guy. Reggie looks like the cat that caught the canary. Guy looks trapped. Lots of dialog so leave room.

Reggie: All of Ceres is held in free socage to the King, who exercises only temporal dominion in his role of stewardship over the land for the people.

Reggie (2): So it all belongs to the Crown, one way or another.

Guy: But that’s not democratic --!

Panel 3
Pan left for a 2-shot of Bert and Reggie. Bert has risen to his feet, palms on table, in mock outrage, while also casting a sideways glance at Reggie. Reggie is looking distracted, not looking at Bert.

Bert: Doesn’t your UW tolerate and support all sorts of worthless royals on Terra?

Bert (2) Sorry, uh, Reginald, present company excepted.

Reggie: No offense taken, yadda yadda.