Strip 727 -- First Seen: 2011-06-17
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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
Re-establish the scene: Babbette, Reggie, and Harmon at the table in the fine restaurant. Food has been served and the three eat and drink as they converse.
Babbette: So Dan, you never did say what business you have on Venus.
Babbette: Care to share?

Panel 2
Focus on Harmon, hunching forward a bit and glancing side to side. We can see a waitress walking by a couple of meters away, not paying any attention to Harmon.
Harmon: This is on the QT, right?
Harmon: There may be complex life on Venus.

Panel 3
Babbette and Reggie both look dubiously at Harmon. He goes on as he cuts into his pot roast.
Harmon: Yes, we all know that the research stations have never seen anything that could be called a plant or an animal.

Panel 4
High angle shot, looking from over Reggie's head at Harmon and Babbette.
Harmon: Of course, we know the surface is a burning hell, but there'd been hope we might find some kind of life floating in the upper atmosphere.
Babbette: But they found nothing, right?

Panel 5
Harmon punctuates his point by stabbing his empty fork into the air in front of him.
Harmon: This has not been released yet, but the air actually is home to something like a bouyant algae.
Harmon: They have tiny vesicles filled with gases a bit lighter than Venus' heavy carbon dioxide atmosphere.

Panel 6
Reggie addresses Harmon as Babbette sips her drink
Reggie: But something tells me you've found more than algae.
Harmon: You could say that.