Strip 728 -- First Seen: 2011-06-20
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Ready for launch! The Kickstarter campaign to print the next volume of Quantum Vibe: Novo Palermo - Part 1 will take flight in just a couple of weeks on Oct 19th, 2026.

Your reward for backing our campaign starts with a personalized signed copy of the perfect bound printed collection of the online strip. You may also choose the ebook edition, a PDF downloadable from DriveThruComics.

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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.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Exterior shot of Variable Star, gliding gracefully among the stars on its ion thrusters.
Harmon (from aboard the ship): The floating cities are all in the mid-to-high latitudes, 45 degrees or more.
Harmon: This allows them to take advantage of the jet streams and circle the planet in days rather than months.

Panel 2
Exterior of the Skydome Lounge, we are looking through the transparent dome (hemispheric, positioned on the side of the central passenger cylinder facing away from the thruster array, it's about 1/3 the diameter of the cylinder it sits on.
Harmon: Recent forays into the lower latitudes have turned up more complex life forms.
Harmon: Things that sort of swim.

Panel 3
Three-shot of Reggie, Babbette and Harmon, still at the restaurant table, now near to finishing their meals. Re-establish the scene. Harmon has their undivided attention.
Harmon: We hope something more animal or plant-like might be found nearer the equator.
Harmon: By the way, the DNA in the 'algae' is the same as Terran life and extinct Martian life.

Panel 4
Three-shot again of Harmon, Reggie, Babbette.
Harmon: It's the smoking gun confirming the theory of exogenesis ...
Reggie: Or panspermia …
Harmon: Quite right – on a common origin of life in the solar system and maybe beyond!