Scott Bieser

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Diana discovers Lorelei's betrayal.

1844/114/76

Meet the Mechanic. Wonder what her real name is? She has interesting friends, though.

1843/113/75

Tried to save time as well as set the tone by using mostly black spaces for the entryway.

1841/111/74

I don't mind saying that drawing and inking the exterior scenes in Pandemonium was a real time-sink.

1839/109/73

I had to think about how the characters would enter and exit the Super-Flyer, since it doesn't have doors. I figured the top and side windows could collapse/slide/morph out of the way so everyone sufficiently agile could do a classic Tom Selleck mounting. Diana had to simply clamber in and out.

1838/108/72

I pondered what a 31st-Century parking garage for personal aircraft might look like. Would it have elaborate births, or simple spaces. I went for simplicity.

1836/106/71

Elves and snakes don't generally get along.

1835/105/70

Nurse Ienil is modeled on a close friend of mine but I'm not allowed to say who. 

1833/103/69

Diana realizes that this boss of hers was a much better friend than she knew. The memories of every sass and jab she ever gave him, so as to keep her distance, are stabbing her conscience.

1832/102/68

It can be a real shock to see a friend on immersive life-support. And Montoya could have been a bit more sensitive.

1830/100/67

I don't know why I find it so amusing, portraying lawyers as snakes. I kinda stole the idea from Howard Tayler's _Schlock Mercenary_, where he had a whole race of lawyer-snakes. But for William I. Montoya here I was trying to channel Kaa the giant Boa from the original Jungle Book movie.

Catching up to Too-Fiddy

First, thanks to everyone for their patience regarding my tardy reward posts.

Second, I've got 12 pages of pencils/inks lined up and will be posting one each starting today and for the next 11 thereafter. Ending on the 25th. It will be like the 12 Days of Christmas!

Third, there has been some concern among some of my readers regarding the recent actions of Patreon in banning certain popular YouTube personalities for being deplorable to progressive sensibilities.

I doubt tha...

A word or two of explanation/excuse-making:

All patrons may have noticed that I've been late getting comics uploaded as of late, and the $2.50+ patrons probably also noticed that I'm way behind in posting the pencils/inks of completed pages.

I probably also owe some $20 donors a drawing.

The explanation/excuse is that my father, age 86, had a medical crisis shortly after Halloween which landed him in the emergency room and then in a "trained nursing" facility. I won't go into the details except that it's the sort of problem ...

1829/99/66

No one expects the Viper.

1827/97/65

Okay, "McCoy" is obvious but you gotta be a real Trekkie to know who "Boyce" was.

1826/96/64

I love classic styling, don't you?

1824/94/63

Believe it or not, people sitting around a table, talking is rather challenging for me to draw. I have to position everyone so that the dialog works without crossing balloon-tails.

1823/93 /62

I hadn't shown how the Anysuits work for some time, so I thought I'd demonstrate it here for newer readers.

1821/91/61

Patreon's been getting more up-tight about stuff like female nipples so to be safe I'm covering them in my posts here. If you want to see Diana's nipples just go to the Quantumvibe.com site.

1820/90/60

I modeled Sergio on a fairly famous actor. Did anybody recognize those beady little eyes before I dopped those hints in the text?

1818/88/59

I didn't remember until later that I'd already drawn a rather different version of the Smith & Holder headquarters back in the _Venus 23_ volume, which takes place about a year before this story.

Introducing Sergio Cooper. I know I already have another character named Sergio (Fritsch). What can I say, it's a popular name a thousand years from now.

1817/86/57

Lorelei reveals her agenda, and that Byron is a tricky fellow, ain't he?

1815/84/56

 Introducing Byron Tchakowski. He's sort of a mash-up of Milo Yiannopulous and the long-time Libertarian Party activist "Starchild," from San Francisco (what a shock, right?)

Nobody seemed to notice I left off the squiggly lines on Lorelei's tank-top, in the last panel. I was kind of surprised, as I've been called on much less obvious mistakes.

Strip 1812/83/55

(Made public so Patrons who haven't pledged at least $2.50 can see what they're missing.)

Where were we? Oh yeah, Diana is about to get a makeover, sort of.

Well, Nerts.

Here I thought the pencils/inks for my strip had been updating at least through past Labor Day, and now I find they stopped on August 10 for some reason. Maybe a limit to how many I can put in the queue.

So, I'll be catching up this month.

1811/82-83/55

Hanging out with Zander Metaxas in cyberspace. I'm still trying to find a satisfactory way to represent cyberspace that I can render in a reasonable amount of time.

1810/80-81/54

What to do, where to go? Time to look up another old friend.

1808/79-80/53

The return of Monty's Python Avatar.

Good ol'  Monty.

1807/77-78/52

So you've lost your home, your boss is missing, and your arm is badly mangled. Then you wake up in a billionaire's mansion being tended to by a teen-ager who has an obvious crush on you. Life can get strange sometimes.

1805/76-77/51

Diana chose deClayre's home as a safe haven because she didn't want to reveal she was working for Alyss Roaz, and she had visited deClayre just the previous day, so it made sense to her.

(And yes, I copied a panel showing the deClayre mansion from a previous page. Then added more surroundings. One advantage of working digitally is it can look seamless in the final.)