Strip 706 -- First Seen: 2011-05-19
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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

Strip 034
Panel 1
Largish panel, somewhat dominated by the caption boxes. The entrance to 'Cirque du Sexe,' with signage that somewhat captures the flavor of Cirque de Soleil but with silhouettes of athletic men and women in exotic-dancer type poses, some of them in erotic embrace. Use your imagination. We see B & R along with other patrons entering the building.
Caption: Live sex shows were common in the outworlds, but Cirque du Sexe was something altogether different and special.
Caption: Two dozen performers from Paris' closed Crazy Horse, Terra's banned porn industry and traditional circuses, fled to Mars and created this unique troupe.

Panel 2
A broad corridor leading into the main building. Along the wall we see a series of framed posters advertising some of the acts in the circus – include a 6-member group of Chinese contortionist-acrobats, the M-F couple shot through the air from a canon, and the 2-Man-1-Woman bicycle act, and whatever others you can dream up.
Since we want to keep this strip PG-13, use strategic placement of patrons in front of the posters and other means to obscure genitalia on the nude performers depicted in the posters.
Caption: It was an instant success, and the Cirque grew to more than 200 performers, designers, choreographers, artists, builders and other support staff.

Panel 3
R & B in arena-theater-like seating, among some other patrons. They are nibbling popcorn and sipping cocktail drinks adorned with little umbrellas. Looking out of the panel in wide-eyed amazement at the performance.
Caption: Most performers were physically altered and enhanced into mystical and sensual creatures of beauty and pleasure.