Scott Bieser

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Wherein Otto unwittingly escapes the future destruction of Delosario Sanatorio Diagnostico.

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This one took extra time and broke my schedule a bit. Each panel could be expanded into a page of its own but I didn't want to extend this story into 2025. I plan to finish this book in May (maybe June) and then we'll do another crowdfunder to print the book.

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I'm making this one visible since it's SFW. Also to tell folks I'm back.

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Alyss still needs to learn diplomacy when dealing with old friends. Of course, all is not lost, yet.

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Obviously, I re-used some assets here. But they're my assets to use.
The only problem was, that it wasn't entirely clear what was going on in the last panel. So I had to show the final result of that gravity beam blast on the next page, which wasn't my original intent.

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Catching up again. OK, three this week. Here's the first -- Novo Paoloans reacting to the latest atrocity

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War is hell but some atrocities are beyond the pale. (Alas, poor Dexter.)

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Sargon discovers one of the hostages is missing and Dexter's twin Alex gets the bad news.

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Fortunately those Metallo Bros group Displacers automatically send their wearer home when the wearer is seriously injured. Unfortunately, Dexter has pissed-off one of his fellow hostages.

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Aw, nertz. This should have gone up before page 66. So I guess y'all get a twofer today.
Guess who I modeled the rescuers lined up behind Guido and Sargon on in panel 5?

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Where does the time go? All right a new page each day this week, at least.

This is where the fellow we later knew was named "Dexter" screwed things up by being difficult.

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Usually when I do holiday-oriented strips they are not part of the continuity, but in this case I could fit one easily into the ongoing story, so, here we are.
The background in the last panel is a close-up photo of my own Christmas tree, with some CSP filters applied.

I'm also making this strip accessible to all subscribers, because t...

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Dominic is too smart to insert himself into a dangerous situation. That's why he sends his brother, Guido.

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Long-time readers know how I love to drop pop-art references into this story so it seemed that presenting the Jetsons' apartment building as a location in Bubbleopolis would be a no-brainer.

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Yikes, have I fallen behind now! Sorry, folks, a hard-drive crash last month while I was trying to get the Omnibus book ready pretty much wrecked my schedule. So, in addition to this page I'm posting a new page on Thursday and Friday this week and strive to do better catching-up.

Anyway this is the second part of the Resistance assault on...

Attention Kickstarter backers

We are getting ready to send out our premiums to those of you who backed our QUANTUM VIBE: This Means War Kickstarter campaign, but we don't have current mailing addresses for some of you. If you haven't already PLEASE send us your current mailing address so we can get your goods.

Thanks, the Mgt.

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This one in fact required 16 layers, plus the text, for the last two panels. 

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Saved by the ... Red Batwoman?  Too bad Lorelei doesn't have the level of Displacer tech that she could have just ducked her mansion out of the way.

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In which Mitch gets glitched. 

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It took me a whole damn day to make that image of Lorelei's mansion and I'm gonna use it as much as I can.

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Saving some more time by copy-pasting the ICS ships in the final panels.
The whole point was to establish that the fleet is occupying Bubbleopolis' usual space, which complicates things a bit.

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(Still struggling to catch up ... the Kickstarter Campaign is taking a lot of my time and energy.

That last panel, where Bok gives Jerome the "finger" -- I gave some thought to this: What sort of gesture would likely be the equivalent of The Finger a thousand years and half a billion light-years from here and now? Probably not The Finger,...

Kickstarter update correction

Some readers have informed me that the Bitly link I noted in the Sept 18 installment doesn't work.
This is because I didn't realize Bitly links are case-sensitive, and the comic-book lettering font I used in the installment doesn't show upper-vs-lower case.
Here it is showing the proper cases:   2023-09-21 03:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post

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Jerome Falstaff tells us what he knows about the new turns in the war. Or what his friends want us to know about it.

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This is where the movie-making gag, "don't worry, we'll fix this in post" starts to become relevant in this strip.

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Wherein we see that there is no honor among shitheads.
And not a whole lot of sanity either.

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Any resemblance of these characters to actual assholes, living or dead, is probably intentional.

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The Great Displacement from the POV of three of the bad-guy executives.
Introducing Alain Severin and Amelia Orme-Colbert. Two sleaze-bags.

(OK, I'm re-settled, my rib is healing, no more excuses. I'm 10 pages behind with these and I'll be catching-up, two new posts per week.)

Galveston, Oh Galveston

This has been the most -- ah -- _challenging_ move I've ever made, getting back to the island I love. The day I got the keys to the place I tripped over a bump in a walkway outside the building and cracked a rib.  It's now been six days and it's still sore, although Ibuprophen has been a big help. A bigger help has been my younger son, Ian,...

I hate moving

It gets more difficult every time. But I did have some time to sketch out some very rough designs for a female K'Tagon. After all, the next chapter involves that race. So far we've only seen two versions of Ralff. But there will be a lot more, male and female, coming up.

This sketch isn't really a final pass, there will be refinements. Bu...