Strip 170 -- First Seen: 2009-05-08
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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
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.