Strip 551 -- First Seen: 2010-10-18
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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
Two-shot of Merry and Pablo. Merry is standing in front of Pablo's desk, looking frustrated. Pablo holds the recording mini-disc (which Bert had in the previous strip) betwixt thumb and forefinger and stares at it bemusedly as he speaks to Merry.
Pablo: Assuming the recording shows what he says it does, do you really want to continue with this hearing?
Panel 2
Swing the camera around so we see Merry from the front, a bit flustered, trying to recover from her blunder. Behind her we can see her clients, and one of them (Lawrence) speaks up.
Merry: We, Sv. Rosenberg, these could be CGI and …
Lawrence: Stop it, Merry. He's got us. Let's just salvage what we can.

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Rosenberg, leaning forward to talk to Merry.
Pablo: Back in the bad old days, I was a lawyer in what is now the Texas Sector.
Pablo: In law school, they told us to never ask a question to which you do not know the answer, or an open-ended question.
Panel 4
Looking over Pablo's shoulder at Merry, who is running one hand through the hair on the side of her head, looking flushed with frustration and embarrassment. Pablo is still leaning forward in this frame.
Pablo: For what it's worth, though, with the evidence at hand, there really isn't anything you could've done to get your clients off.