Strip 424 -- First Seen: 2010-04-22
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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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Robyn in a courtroom, facing a rather bored-looking judge.

Caption (Robyn): 'In court, I told my side of the story, but the judge couldn't've cared less.

Caption: 'I was tried and convicted of felony assault on an officer.'

Panel 2
Also in the court room, in the gallery, we see Robyn's parents. Her mother is a diminutive east-Indian; her father, a white New Zealander. Both look distraught, and helpless.

Caption: 'My parents are not wealthy, but they hired the best lawyer they could afford.

Caption: 'Not that it did me any good. There was nothing anyone could do.'

Panel 3
Robyn, downcast and in shackles, is escorted out of the court room by a pair of guards. In the background, we see her parents, looking completely distraught. Mother sobs in father's arms, both of them surrounded by friends who try to comfort them.
Caption: 'That was the last time I saw my parents.'


Panel 4
Robyn and some other older children, still in shackles, are escorted by guards across a spaceport tarmac towards a waiting lunar shuttle. Make it look utilitarian and depressing.
Caption: 'I was sentenced to five years at the Lunar Kiddie Slammer.'