Strip 748 -- First Seen: 2011-07-18
Escape From Terra is updated with new pages every Monday through Friday.

One Dollar Sale Continues!

Hard to believe it, but Big Head Press published it's first novel, over 20 years ago. To commemorate our stubborn longevity, we continue to stubbornly offer each of our non serialized graphic novel stories for just one mere American dollar (plus shipping). Start your holiday shopping early and light up some body's mind with one or more of these titles.

Offer only available in the United States.

Kickstarter Success!

The Not-Safe-Space 2 Kickstarter Campaign has ended successfully. Thanks to all who pledged!

Now we get to wait 2 weeks while Kickstarter transmits the funds, and Scott can order the books, and send surveys to backers to get current e-mail addresses for the .PDF versions and mailing addresses for the physical books.

All of this should show up in June.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Reggie and Babbette walking along a concourse not unlike one of those at the Denver International Airport.
Reggie: Our airbus to Venusville leaves in just – 20 minutes.
Babbette: Having trouble adjusting to the Terran clock, 'Waldo?'

Panel 2
Reggie and Babbette walking down a gangway, just past the ticket clerk.
Reggie: The clock and the gravity, 'Wanda.'
Babbette: More than twice what we had on Mars. Glad I took my vita-bots.

Panel 3
Wide-shot. The airbus, a 1/5 scale, stubbier version of the space-going V-ships, is gliding in towards the floating city Venusville.
Venusville has a footprint about 10 km square, although the footprint is a collection of 7 circles, touching at the edges, with the internal gaps filled by a 10-meter-thick plate of conduits, passageways and support struts and girders. Atop most of the circles are buildings of various sizes and styles, except for the middle circle which is a large arboretum and park. Underneath the circles, the support systems for the city form an inverted dome-shape corresponding to each circle. These works are all enclosed in a large, blimp-like airskin, full of Terran-style air, which provides the ship's buoyancy.
The surrounding Venusian sky looks like Earth's lower stratosphere, with cumulus-type clouds all around, and thin cirrus-like clouds above, and an opaque blanket of clouds below obscuring the surface.
Caption: Reggie and Babbette had a few hours to get their 'Venus-legs' as the airbus conveyed them to Venusville, the largest of the planet's floating cities.