Strip 247 -- First Seen: 2009-08-25
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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
Tobi speaking to as much of the group as you can get into a quarter-strip panel.

Tobi: Which we reminds me, we have our own video.

Tobi: When Johnson alit on the airskin, the skinbots went into video mode and started transmitting images of him.

Panel 2
Medium shot of the monitor with Drenkowski still standing next to it. Make the monitor as big as you can in the panel while still showing some of Drenkowski there. On the screen, we see the Pale Man again, cutting a slot in the airskin with his acetylene torch

Tobi (OP): Now you see him cutting through the airskin ...

Panel 3
Same shot. Drenkowski is watching with interest. On the screen, Johnson is pulling himself through the slot, fighting the out-rush of air.

Tobi (OP): … and then sliding through.

Panel 4
Closer in on the monitor so it fills the panel. It shows a closer-up shot of Johnson with a shiny piece of airskin breaking off and attaching itself to Johnson's environment suit.
Tobi (OP): In this closeup, you can see a small patch of airskin breaking off and attaching itself – there! – to Johnson's environment suit.