Strip 336 -- First Seen: 2009-12-28
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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
In the center, is the new object, a giant, stone-carved likeness of the classic 'Grey Alien' approximately the same size as the Moai-like 'head' found earlier. Make this alien's head about ¼ the length of the entire body. Surrounding the head are a dozen overlapping video screens – angle them so they seem to be floating in a 3-dimensional space and radiating from the center. In those screens we can see, are various talking heads either gravely or excitedly talking about the new artifact – on some screens we might see photos of the 'Alien' projected behind the commentators.

Caption: Eventually hundreds of craft converged on the strangely carved planetoid.

Caption: The media went into a feeding frenzy.

Caption: A continuous stream of scientists, theologians, doomsday prophets, pundits, and of course, politicians, gassing on about the significance of Mankind's 'First Encounter of the Second Kind.'

Caption: Everyone was so sure they knew what it all meant, but nobody really had a clue.