Strip 882 -- First Seen: 2012-02-02
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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
External view of The South American, a sleek space-liner about the size of the Delta Free, boosting through space. In the star-field beyond it we can see a small, black, bird-like shape.
Caption: So, as The South American rocketed towards Terra, Nisa, Mac, Bert and Ernie did their 'catching up.'
Caption: What the crew of the space-ferry didn't know is that they were being shadowed.

Panel 2
Closer look at the all-black Free Bird, exterior view.
Caption: That shadow was the stealth ship Free Bird, obtained a year earlier from a suspected United World government spy who took a long, bad fall onto Tobi's planetoid, The Little Prince.

Panel 3
Interior of Free Bird cockpit. Drenkowski is seated at the controls, he has four holographic displays up in front of him, and he's studying them intently.
Caption: Its current owner and pilot, Commander Drenkowski, fills the travel time studying various charts and satellite photos and other Groom Lake intel which Tobi had secured.
Caption: He didn't want any surprises. In that, he would be disappointed.