Strip 8 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-09-26
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The epic QUANTUM VIBE: This Means War story concludes with Part 3, and we require funds to publish a print volume. To sweeten the pot a bit, we have added stickers and magnet add-ons for the Project for a Free Cosmos concept (explained in the story).

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The Transcript For This Page

Strip 8

Panel 1
Exterior shot of Burner flying through space.

Fionella (from inside ship): It looks so – small.

Panel 2
Inside the ship, Fionella and Guy are gazing out through an observation port at Terra, now a couple of millions miles distant, appearing just large enough that we can see her as a crescent (about 1/8 phase).

Guy: By the time we reach Ceres, Terra will look like a tiny speck, lost in the Sun’s glare.

Guy (2): But hardly small in importance. Terra is the vital center of an expanding human sphere, the guardian of civilization and its values.

Panel 3
The two are now strolling down a corridor, away from the viewport. Guy is in full-bore lecture mode. Fionella listens politely but with an eyebrow raised – her critical thinking is engaged.

Guy: There’s always a danger that people who live on a frontier will forget who they are. They’ll fail to see the ties that bind them to the homeland.

Panel 4

They walk past a ship’s crewman who’s loitering in an alcove. As he speaks to them through a sly grin, they react with shock and a bit of embarassment.

Crewman: Hey, if you guys are into bondage, I know where you can get some fur-lined handcuffs.