Strip 198 -- First Seen: 2009-06-17
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

One Dollar Sale Continues!

Hard to believe it, but Big Head Press published it's first novel, over 20 years ago. To commemorate our stubborn longevity, we continue to stubbornly offer each of our non serialized graphic novel stories for just one mere American dollar (plus shipping). Start your holiday shopping early and light up some body's mind with one or more of these titles.

Offer only available in the United States.

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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
In the flight cabin of Little Toot, Ernie is settling into the second acceleration couch to the left of Bert..
Caption: The remainder of the journey to The Little Prince was uneventful, until, just over five million klicks out ...

Ernie: You wanted to show me something?

Bert: Yeah ...


Panel 2
Looking at a large navigation viewscreen on Bert's console. In the center is a bright disk about 2cm in diameter, surrounded by a fuzzy halo about 13cm in diameter. There's a very tiny but distinct black dot just inside the right edge of the halo.

The screen also has various fancy reticles and a numeric readout in the lower left corner (think of the screen animations on 2001: A Space Odyssey). We can also see Bert's hand pointing at the disk.
Bert: That's the Little Prince there

Bert (2): It's a 10km planetoid inside a 80km air skin. I have no idea what that tiny lump to the right is.

Panel 3
Looking at the brothers, from slightly forward of a side-view, both leaning forward into the screen, their faces illuminated by it.

Bert: It's not a mountain. It appears to be inside the air skin, but that's not possible.

Panel 4
The brothers, seen from the front, still leaning towards the screen but now looking at each other.

Ernie: It sure looks like it's inside, but that's not the only odd thing ...

Bert: Yeah ...