Strip 547 -- First Seen: 2010-10-12
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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
Merry, seen from behind, is standing in front of the desk where Pablo sits. We can see the backs of the defendants' heads behind Merry and to the left in the lower foreground. Over to the right lower foreground, we can also see the backs of Ernie and Bert Guzmán's heads. Bert is sitting to Ernie's right. (Sort of establishing the whole scene).
Pablo: Number four, these are serious charges against your clients – attempted murder, false imprisonment, destruction of property, reckless endangerment, and horse theft.

Panel 2
Medium close-up of Merry, mouth open as if about to speak, but she is interrupted by Pablo.
Pablo: Merry, that was a joke.

Panel 3
Cut to a medium two-shot of Bert and Ernie, seated in chairs and listening quietly as Pablo speaks. We can see a few courtroom spectators seated behind them.
Pablo: But stealing a man's ride in the Belt is pretty much the same thing.

Panel 4
Medium shot of Pablo on his desk, tapping his finger on the soft-ball sized device on his desk.
Pablo: Anyway, five, the record has no choice but to show what transpires here. It's all in this omni-recorder.