Strip 649 -- First Seen: 2011-03-03
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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
Wide, shallow panel. We see a bit of the end of the spiral at the left and then the track straightens and runs horizontally, parallel to the canyon wall. The capsules shoot along the track.
Caption: Suddenly the spiraling and rolling stopped and the capsule shot horizontally along the face of the canyon wall.

Panel 2
The capsules streaks along the track now running up and down in short hills.
Caption: It went through a series of bunny hills ...

Panel 3
The track and capsules suddenly bank and turn directly towards the canyon wall.
Caption : … then swept sideways into the face of the wall.

Panel 4
The track and capsule-train plunges into a 4-meter-wide lava tube which appears just past a rocky out-cropping.
Caption: At the last second, a lava tube opening appeared around an outcropping.
Caption: It swallowed the capsule and instantly plunged the riders into total darkness.