Strip 986 -- First Seen: 2012-06-27
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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!

A Little House Cleaning

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
We're going to use one large (half-page) panel to show the interior of the Odeum. It's a 30x30x20-meter room with a stage area filling most of one corner floor-to-ceiling (overhead catwalks and suchlike are hidden behind decorative baffling), a level floor that might have dinner-style seating, or rows of portable chairs, or in this case, standing-room-only. On the sides opposing the stage are stacks of 2.5-meter high balconies, which are currently also standing-room only. There are numerous decorative and lighting fixtures on the walls and ceiling, on which more people are perched or clinging in the super-low gravity. The place really is packed with people.
Handrails (for easy locomotion) run everywhere, although in the crowd they're mostly obscured. On the stage are tall vertical poles spaced a bit less than 2 meters apart, so the actors (or whoever else is on the stage) can move around quickly.
In the lower left of our panel is the stage, with Marsha at the podium. Over in the upper right, a man hanging from a fixture on the ceiling is talking back to her. Most of the rest of the audience that we can see are grinning or chuckling. Some (many of the Mascons) are not looking happy.
Marsha: People of Vesta, the Vesta Council only wants to protect you.
Man on ceiling: So you're from the government, and you're here to help us, right?
SFX [laughter]