Strip 718 -- First Seen: 2011-06-06
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

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
Room full of people. There's a long bench along one wall upon which sit our six juvenile delinquents. The four large men in uniform-like clothing with a patch on their left breasts stand nearby, keeping an eye on them. Nearby, a matronly woman similarly attired, holding an electronic tablet, is talking to a couple of ordinary Cerereans, man and woman.
Caption: The 'bum' and the other men were part of a Ceres Merchant's Association sting operation set up to deal with a spate of recent muggings around the port.
Caption: The boys were a fortuitous collar.

Panel 2
One of the kids with the gang, with his parents, at home. The father is reading his son the riot act; the son looks ashamed of himself.
Caption: Most of the boys had never been in trouble.
Caption: They were turned over to their parents, who dispensed informal justice at home.

Panel 3
Scene at an outdoor cafe in downtown Ceres City: Three teenagers, two of them girls, are in front of a display being shown on a portable computer (make the screen a 21-inch diagonal hologram over the flat box that is mostly keyboard), set up on one of the cafe tables. But instead of looking at the display they are pointing and laughing at two of the 'Pissers Wild' kids (but not the one in the previous panel), who is walking away looking humiliated.
Caption: The CMA also released surveillance videos of the boys 'in action.'
Caption: Someone posted the video to YouTube and it went viral. The boys became the laughingstock of the Solar System.

Panel 4
Small panel, medium close-up on Jim, who still has his 'street' attitude on.
Caption: Jim, however, presented a special problem.