Strip 197 -- First Seen: 2009-06-16
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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
Large panel again. We see Little Toot from behind, burn engines ablaze, pushing the berg in front of it at a diagonal angle. Toot is positioned as close as possible to the center of gravity of the potato-shaped berg, so the berg is moving “sideways,” instead of along its greater length.

Ernie (from inside ship): This is not the geodesic path to the Little Prince.

Bert (inside ship): Exactly. Our friend Li Chang doesn't need to know where we're going.


Panel 2
Horizontal panel. We see the berg from some distance, pushed along by Little Toot, which looks like a ladybug perched on a large, blue-grey potato, except this ladybug is streaming a plume of hot gas behind it.

Bert (inside ship): I can make a course correction later that will get us there.


Panel 3
Horizontal panel. Much closer on berg, we only see a crossways slice of it. On the left side, we can see the Toot's exhaust blowing backward. A quarter-way around the berg, relative to Toot, we can see the stealth ship perched on the berg, embedded in a crevasse. It has changed its surface color to match the color of the berg. Leave some space on the left side of the berg for the dialog balloon.


Bert (from Toot): Let me fly this thing, you keep a look out for 'Romulans.'