Strip 852 -- First Seen: 2011-12-22
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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
Beginning of flashback sequence. We see the exterior of the laboratory and compound in the western Australian desert. In the middle-ground is a gate in the tall, barb-wire-topped perimeter fence, and small group of Aboriginals in an open-topped Jeep-like conveyance are being waved outward through the checkpoint by the guard. We see a small cameo of Bert's head in the upper left corner.
Bert: The good news is, the aboriginal families were never prisoners.
Bert: They were free to come and go, although they mostly stayed in the compound.

Panel 2
Near a parked military style truck, in front of a nondescript cinder-block wall, we see one Aboriginal family of five – husband, wife, teen-aged son, two younger daughters, standing by with packed bags and luggage.
Caption (Bert): 'By the time the operation was moved to Groom Lake, Neanne's surrogate mother had died.
Caption: Everybody stayed in Australia except one family they got to go to Nevada.

Panel 3
Close-in shot on the teenaged-boy, elbows-up. He is clear-eyed and confident-looking.
Caption (Bert): The son, Nowra, and Neanne were sweet on each other so he probably got his family to go.