Strip 878 -- First Seen: 2012-01-27
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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!

Not-Safe.Space Kickstarter!

UPDATE to the UPDATE: The problem has been solved, all rewards are now available. I've extended the campaign an extra day, to April 21. Thanks for bearing with me!

UPDATE: There has been some strange glitch in the Kickstarter launch, so Scott is cancelling the campaign temporarily and will re-start as soon the cause of the problem can be determined and corrected.

Scott is gearing-up for his third Not-Safe.Space Kickstarter campaign!

(Not-Safe.Space is Scott's sexy spin-off of QUANTUM VIBE.)

For those of you who haven't signed up for one of the NSFW Patreon tiers, this will be the best way to get in on the action for a very reasonable price.

Go to THIS link. The campaign starts March 16 and runs through April 20.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Another long, horizontal panel. A NASA official on the left, Leon on the right. They are talking on the phone with each other and the phone chords connect. NASA logo between the two of them.

Narration: Also in 2011, The Space Shuttle program was ending and NASA was looking for private solutions for taking astronauts to and from the ISS, the International Space Station.

Narration: BALListic Solutions was on the top of the short list, but then disaster struck.

Panel 2
Large panel. Close up shot: Leon is looking at a miniature sculpture of the ISS, devastatedly.
Narration: In mid-2011, it was announced that the ISS would be shut down and dropped into the South Pacific, for “safety” reasons.

Narration: A number of companies offered to buy the ISS, but just as with Space Lab and Mir, the Powers That Be, were dead set against a space station in private hands.

Panel 3

Leon sitting on the couch, his arms limp beside him. The ISS miniature on the coffee table before him. His wife, Terry, pokes her head from the kitchen..

Narration: Leon was devastated.

Terry: Leon...

Panel 4

Terry has come up behind Leon and puts her hands on his shoulders, her face close to his.

Terry: Leon, snap out of it.

Terry: We don't need to be a delivery truck for the ISS. There are plenty of other things
BALListic can do; satellite launches, repair, retrieval, space tourism...

Panel 5

Leon has turned towards his wife angrily.

Leon: Terry, I want to go to Mars, not putter around in Earth orbit!