Strip 862 -- First Seen: 2012-01-05
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QV on a short break

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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
The Guzmán brothers zoom across SkyLand in their Jetson-mobile with 'Big Bird' leading the way. We see other fanciful conveyances zooming around them, with Hall of Giants passing by in the background.
Ernie: So where is this big meeting taking place?
Bert: Tobi's suite in The Forbidden Castle, on Hollow Earth ... or is that, in Hollow Earth?

Panel 2
On cue, Hollow Earth looms into view. The bros are approaching from a high-northern angle, with the north-pole entryway presenting at just a bit above the central point of the globe's facing surface.
Ernie: Well, it's on the inside.
Bert: At any rate, the castle rests on an island in the middle of the equatorial lake.

Panel 3
Two-shot of Bert and Ernie inside the Jetson-mobile.
Ernie: So is it really forbidden?
Bert: To the park guests anyway. The only way to get in is via one of the longitudinal railway tunnels – and with an invitation, of course.

Panel 4
Medium close-up on Bert.
Bert: If someone tried to swim there, a huge mechanical sea serpent would swallow him, then return to the lake shore and regurgitate him, with a warning not to try that again.
Bert: 'Or else.'