Strip 884 -- First Seen: 2012-02-06
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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
Exterior view of the Free Bird descending through Terra's lower stratosphere. Very dark sky above, getting a bit lighter going down. Mainly so that we can see the aircraft, show a bit of re-entry glow around it (not a blazing fire, just a bit of friction-burn riding along the craft's shock-wave).
Caption: As Free Bird descends into Terra's atmosphere ...
Drenkowski (from inside the spacecraft): We'll be landing in a bit less than a centime.

Panel 2
Inside the cockpit of Free Bird, Drenkowski, Bert, Ernie, Mac and Nisa as before.
Drenkowski: Local time is 03:20.
Drenkowski: Everyone down there, except night guards, should be in their deepest level of sleep.

Panel 3
Again, exterior view of Free Bird, this time from above. Several miles below and ahead of the craft, we can see a really long runway, leading to some large hangars. It's night-time, but thanks to the magic of comics we can still see the runway, and the hangars themselves are well-lit with exterior flood-lights.
Drenkowski (from inside the spacecraft): So far, my instruments indicate we have not been detected.
Drenkowski: Since Free Bird is a 'short takeoff and landing' craft we won't need most of the runway, and can set down near those big hangars.