Strip 338 -- First Seen: 2009-12-30
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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
Doris at her station; in the background we can see Fiorella looking on. Doris is a bit pensive.

Doris: So Reggie, that thing looks vaguely familiar. You know everything, so what is it?

Panel 2
Cut to Reggie in his stateroom, drink still in hand.

Reggie: Thanks for the flowers, and yes this is one I do know.

Reggie: It's a so-called 'Gray Alien.'

Panel 3
Wide panel. Arrange most of the scene to the center, leaving space on either side for two large caption boxes. In the scene, a middle-aged, somewhat dowdy woman lays entranced on a padded Barcalounger. Next to her, one man holds a sparkling crystal on a string about two feet from her face, indicating he has her hypnotized. The hypnotized woman is moving her lips in speech. Nearby, a professional-looking young woman is taking notes.

Caption (Reggie): 'In the 1980s and '90s, a bunch of humbug 'therapists' claimed to have recovered 'repressed' memories from people about being paralyzed and taken aboard alien spacecraft.

Caption: 'These so-called 'abductees' were hypnotized and talked into believing that gray aliens had 'probed' them and subjected them to weird experiments. I'd like to probe and experiment on those phony therapists!'