Strip 350 -- First Seen: 2010-01-15
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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
Smallish panel. Elvis croons his last line.

Elvis Head (electronic): Welcome to my world

Panel 2
Large panel. The face of Elvis' Head bursts into a cloud of brightly lit objects covered in shifting vortices of colors, shapes and images. At the margins, musical notes again (won't try to score 'Entrance of the Gladiators').

Voice (electronic:) Ladeeeeeez and Gen-tle-mennnnn ...

Panel 3
Cut to Fiorella and Doris, looking on with expressions a mix of astonishment and a growing delight.

Voice: … children of all ages, welcome to SkyLand Theme Park and Resort.

Voice: The finest, and only – heh-heh – vacation destination in 149 million kilometers.

Panel 4
Cut to a previously un-seen trio, a well-to-do middle-aged couple with a 12-year-old boy, in the control cabin of their yacht. The boy's eyes are saucer-wide.

Voice: For today only, entrance to the resort is free to the crews and passengers of the 372 ships who followed Rock Elvis here.

Voice: You may stay up to three Terran days as our guests.

Panel 5
Large Panel: In the foreground, a Monolith (100x400x900 meters), attached to an air skin which envelopes several other shapes in the background. The monolith is black and illuminated by lighted strips along its edges. The shapes in the background should be indistinct – see the file Artists' Notes for Babes in Toyland for some suggested details.

Voice: Please tune to traffic control frequency, 126.625 AM, and proceed to the Monolith for docking instructions.

Panel 6
Show a line of ships approaching the Monolith, the Split-Tail among them. Points of light are starting to appear on the Monolith's broad surface.

Caption: As the first ships approached ...

Panel 7
Medium c/u on Fiorella:

Fiorella: My god, it's full of stars!