Strip 243 -- First Seen: 2009-08-19
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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. The brothers, their lovely guards, Tobi and Commander Drenkowski are assembled in Drenkowki's office. With their backs to us, we see from left to right: Tobi, Mac, Ernie, Bert and Nisa. Drenkowski is standing in front of a large holomonitor (about 50” diagonal, wide format) mounted on a desktop. In one hand he has a gadget about the size of a typical satellite-TV remote control. On an adjacent table are an assortment of weapons: two Derringers, four auto-pistols of various types, two different types of auto-rifles (“assault” style), a Bowie knife, two smaller daggers, a small cross-bow, and a harpoon gun with two harpoons. Also, several small credit-card-sized cards, an ice pick, and a black box the size of a Sony Playstation 2.
Caption: The next day:

Drenkowski: You boys are off the hook.

Panel 2
Medium shot of Drenkowski gesturing towards the table.
Drenkowski: Aside from the weapons and fake IDs, we found a secret flight recorder.

Drenkowski: We know our hitman followed you from Ceres and exactly when he landed on the iceberg.

Panel 3
Drenkowski holds up the ice pick, looking a bit downcast.

Drenkowski: We also found this – which still has traces of Alexander Smyth's DNA.