Strip 965 -- First Seen: 2012-05-29
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Not-Safe.Space Kickstarter!

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UPDATE: There has been some strange glitch in the Kickstarter launch, so Scott is cancelling the campaign temporarily and will re-start as soon the cause of the problem can be determined and corrected.

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Cut to a meeting hall, perhaps the same one where we earlier saw Pilgrim giving his orientation speech to the newcomers. But now at the dais is Marsha Plotner, the woman who declared that free medical care is a human right. Several dozen people -- Mascons all -- are seated in the rows before her. She is holding up a plastic water bottle. (Pilgrim is not in this scene.)
Caption: Everything was going fine, until the water incident.
Marsha: I noticed this water, that I got from the Comet Ice & Water Company, tasted funny.
Marsha: So, I had it tested.

Panel 2
Medium shot of a railing Marsha, holding forth that water bottle as if meaning to dash it to the ground.
Marsha: It's contaminated with magnesium!
Marsha: I'm not going to drink water full of heavy metals!
Marsha: There oughta be a law!

Panel 3
A member of the audience stands. He's a bit older, greying, of slight build, with the manner of a college professor. He speaks up.
Man: Uh, well, I'm a physicist, and I have to tell you, magnesium is actually a very light metal.
Man: Our bodies need magnesium, and pure H2O would actually chelate it out of ...
Panel 4
Several other audience members have turned and are shouting at the physicist, who cowers like a whipped dog. To one side we can see Marsha smiling in triumph.
Mascon 1: A physicist? Oh, excuse me, are you a medical doctor?
Mascon 2: Seems to me Marsha's opinion is just as good as yours!
Mascon 3: Sit down, Chester, we're trying to accomplish something here!