Strip 20 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-10-10
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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

Strip 20
Panel 1
Larger panel, the golf cart has emerged from a tunnel into a large are that looks something like an indoor shopping mall. Traffic is much slower as conveyances and pedestrians mix in a chaotic pattern.

Babbette: We’re almost there.
Panel 2
Focus on Guy and Fiorella looking out to one side. They see a shop with the sign, 'Uncle Don’s Casino and Bar'

Guy: Hmph.

Panel 3
They look to the other side. They pass a storefront with the sign: 'Custom Tailoring for Well-Armed Ladies and Gentlemen.'

Guy: That can’t be right! Guns are illegal throughout the United World.


Panel 4
The cart pulls up in front of an airlock with a large sign:
Water Bros. Ice Mining, Boarding House and Café.
Bert & Ernie Guzmán, Proprietors
Proud Sponsors of the 'Ice Hammers' Surface Hockey Team
And the 'Brothers in Arms' CDPA Shooting Squad.

(We’ll get to see the sign up close in the next strip, so if detail is lost or sign is partly obscured that’s okay)

Babbette: Here we are, folks.
Panel 5
Guy and Fiorella have disembarked from the cart, and Guy is handing Babbette a bank note. She’s looking at it quizzically.
Panel 6
Close-up of the note in Babbette’s hands. It’s a United World Continental, which looks a bit like our Five Dollar Bill – except that in place of FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE it reads UNITED WORLD BANK NOTE, in place of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA it reads UNITED WORLD, in place of FIVE DOLLARS it reads ONE CONTINENTAL and the portrait is of Dag Hammarskjold, an early UN Secretary-General. Put a bar-code on it somewhere.

Babbette (from off-panel): *sigh*
Panel 7
Babbette begins driving away, her eyes rolled up in a resigned expression. Guy in the background smiles and waves.

Babbette: Thank you.