Strip 194 -- First Seen: 2009-06-11
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

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

Exterior establishing view of the space-tug “Little Toot,” which the brothers have rented from Reggie, as it rockets through space. It's slightly larger mostly in the engine section) than the Split-Tail, and has a curvy design but should look clearly different in configuration from Captain Doris' craft. In this panel we're looking at it in a rear three-quarters view.

Caption: Reggie's space-tug Little Toot was comfortable as well as powerful.

Caption (2): With its huge burner engine, it could move a mountain, or in this case, an iceberg.

Bert (from inside ship): Got something on radar –

Panel 2
Like many of these tugs, there are two separate control cabins. The pilot's cabin for flight control, the ops cabin for navigation and grappling cargo. In this panel, we see Bert in the pilot cabin. His acceleration couch is well-padded. There's a twin acceleration couch to one side, currently unoccupied.

Bert: Looks like a 27-meter iron rock, moving fast – 310 kps, relative. Almost cutting a cord across the Belt Median Elliptic

Ernie (filtered): That's more than odd.

Panel 3
In the ops cabin, Ernie.

Bert (filtered): Trajectory takes it straight to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Ernie: Aha. Log it and transmit to Midgit Mining. They'll want to know.