Strip 980 -- First Seen: 2012-06-19
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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
Above shot. Emily, Katz, and Jeff are still hanging out in the shop, talking.
Emily: Has he been...'fixed?'
Katz: Sort of. There's a wrinkle in his AI program.
Panel 2
Close-up of Katz.
Katz: If I say the word, d-e-f-e-n-d, he'll go after whomever is threatening me.
Katz: I have a safety word, which means 'halt!' in Yiddish.
Panel 3
Emily still looks a bit nervous from a perspective slighty behind and below Jeff.
Emily: Seems like a good system
Katz (OP): Well, in general, yes. Funny story. Jeff and I were in a rough mining town, and a guy with a knife jumps out and demands my money.
Panel 4
Small silhouette of the three with lots of room for dialogue.
Katz: I tell Jeff 'd-e-f-e-n-d!' and he starts for the guy. Suddenly, the guy yells 'halt!' in Yiddish. Jeff stops and looks back and forth between us, trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance. He finally makes up his mind and starts after the robber again. The guy yells, 'Oy Vey!' and takes off like a rocket. I stop Jeff and we proceed on our way. So my system works pretty well, unless I'm attacked by another gonif who's also a Yiddish-speaking Jew, but what are the odds?