Strip 583 -- First Seen: 2010-12-01
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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
Tall panel, exterior shot of the No-PoTo 2, a very tall, cylindrical building of about 300 levels. A couple of miles in the distance we can see another tower, not identical but similar in construction. It is back-lit by a distant Sun just barely above the horizon.
Caption: No-PoTo 2, aka the North Polar Tower, Number Two.
Voice from tower: So yuh think y'can handle hogs, eh?

Panel 2
Kinko stands next to, and somewhat towers over, Sv. Lewis, a swarthy fellow and owner of the pig farm. They are standing at the edge of a large (roughly 3,000 sq. ft.) enclosed area where several swine are rooting around in a layer of muck. Sv. Perry is holding a slop bucket in one hand and with the other, pointing across the area at the biggest swine in the bunch.
Sv. Lewis: Go introduce yourself to the alpha-male over there..

Panel 3
Kinko wades through the muck, holding the bucket by its handle, counter-balancing himself with the other arm extended.
Kinko: Hey, wasamatter, skinny? Don't they feed yuh here?

Panel 4
Close-up on the alpha-male, suddenly raising his head up and casting an angry look.
Alpha-male pig: Hyrwunt?