Strip 223 -- First Seen: 2009-07-22
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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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Another panel illustrating Tobi's thoughts. This time, we have a 1990s style computer geek typing intensely at his keyboard while he glares into his monitor. We can see some tables and shelving behind him full of partially-assembled hardware and technical manuals. And a girlie poster.

Tobi (OP): Most people don't remember the old Internet was once a fresh new frontier of liberated communications.

Panel 2
Looking of the shoulder of a 20-something urban woman at her laptop computer, which happens to be sitting on a table. On the computer screen is the main page for Leakipedia, an actual whistle-blower website. Get in close enough to the laptop that we can clearly see the web page on it. (Go ahead and do a screen grab of their site, then copy into the page. They'll appreciate the publicity.)

Tobi: (OP) For a while, anyone could be a broadcaster, and new encryption technologies also made possible private and anonymous messages.

Panel 3
The same nerd, now 20 years older, hands cuffed behind him doing a Perp Walk in a phalanx of uniformed cops.

Tobi: Governments can't stand people either broadcasting freely or having private communications, so they eventually found ways to bridle the Internet and reign those 'pirates' in.