Strip 170 -- First Seen: 2009-05-08
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Kickstarter Success!

The Not-Safe-Space 2 Kickstarter Campaign has ended successfully. Thanks to all who pledged!

Now we get to wait 2 weeks while Kickstarter transmits the funds, and Scott can order the books, and send surveys to backers to get current e-mail addresses for the .PDF versions and mailing addresses for the physical books.

All of this should show up in June.

Not-Safe.Space Kickstarter 2

The epic Not-Safe.Space story continues with Part 2, and Scott requires funds to publish a print volume of _Not-Safe.Space_ Chapter 2.

This large-format, 48-page trade paperback is a must for fans of Eithne Lamdagan, aka The CUSH Queen, and her friends

The campaign begins Sunday, April 6 and concludes Tuesday, May 8.

Click on this link or on the picture to see the campaign preview page where you can sign up to be notified of the launch next week.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Very large panel, containing the upper half of the page. Crane shot of a street party / carnival in downtown Ceres City. A chaotic festival of revelers and various types of performers – musicians, dancers, tumblers/aerobatics (remember, .03 gravity). Included among the revelers are some of the Strike Force crew, in their uniforms but with insignia removed.

Caption: And to quote from a classic movie, 'there was much rejoicing.'

Caption (2): The Cerereans celebrated the end of the Strike Force Threat with characteristic gusto, in a massive street party in downtown Ceres City and dozens of smaller parties throughout the Belt.

Caption (3): The defecting Strike Force crew members were greeted warmly. Hundreds of new friendships were made that day.

Panel 2
Wide panel. Inside Callahan's, Captain Doris and Fiorella, flanked by a dozen other rock wranglers of both genders, are toasted by a large crowd.

Caption: Captain Doris and the 'Royal Flotilla' were the toast of the town.

Caption (2): Doris and Fiorella each received 127 proposals of marriage, all politely turned down.

Panel 3
Inside Emily Rose's room at the boarding house. Emily sits on a sofa next to Babbette the Younger, who has a comforting arm around Emily's shoulder. They are both watching the street party on a table-top video holo-screen emanating from a device on the coffee-table in front of them. Emily has that thousand-year stare. Babbette is simply solemn.

Caption: However, nobody really wins a war. Even the 'winners' lose.

Caption: 'Frenemies' no longer, Emily and Babbette became inseparable from that day onward.


Panel 4


The widow de León, sitting alone in her living room, dressed in black. She is contemplating a gift basket of flowers sitting on the coffee table in front of her. On the wall behind her we can see a photo of her with her husband Daniel from happier times.

Caption: Daniel de León's widow mourned her loss privately.