This is the first-ever print collection of Schlock Mercenary comics. It includes the complete "Under New Management" story, plus all new footnotes, Sunday-style coloring on every strip, sketches galore, deck plans of the Serial Peacemaker, a group 'photo,' and a bonus 'origins' story about Sergeant Schlock and his first plasma cannon. These 80 full-color glossy pages are a must-have for fans of the comic, and a perfect primer for everyone else.
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Schlock Mercenary is a modern reinvention of the classic adventure comic strip that was such a huge part of newspaper comics in the 20th century. It has a grand overarching mythos, satisfying individual storylines, wonderful characters, a fun, fast pace, and a consistent sense of humor. And most of all, it has just the right sensibility, one that respects the plot and the science in its science fiction, but not much else. --Xaviar Xerexes, Comixpedia
Hard science fiction is hard to do. Comedy is also hard to do. Comedic hard science fiction is like catching neutrinos with tissue-paper. Howard Tayler pulls it off, each and every day. He must own stock in Kleenex. --Eric A. Burns, Websnark
Hard science fiction is hard to do. Comedy is also hard to do. Comedic hard science fiction is like catching neutrinos with tissue-paper. Howard Tayler pulls it off, each and every day. He must own stock in Kleenex. --Eric A. Burns, Websnark
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Howard Tayler has been a rock musician, telephone support technician, field consultant, record producer, software product manager, and (finally) a cartoonist. He lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, four children, and The Voices In His Head. They have never been happier.
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"Dead tree editions" never looked so good,
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This book is a good starting point if you're not familiar with "Schlock Mercenary." While it's not the beginning of the strip (two words: "beginning cartoonist.") it won't take long to figure out who the players are. And really, who can resist a comic whose main character resembles nothing so much as an enormous dungheap? (Albeit one with eyes and sentience, as well as a yen for destruction.) But it's not just the strips as run on the Schlock Mercenary website - there are footnotes, marginalia, and a complete bonus story which you won't find anywhere else.
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Great humor and wonderful insight,
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The Mercenaries open a window into ourselves and poke fun at the human condition. Not a comic fan as a rule, this exception kept me entertained, interested and reading until the end. I thoroughly enjoyed both books in the series and can't wait for the next one.
"Sometimes you have fun, sometimes the fun has you." - Schlock
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If Violence Isn't Your Last Resort...,
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...You've Failed to Resort To Enough Of It.
That should set the tone for a graphic tale of graphic WHOOM!, often presaged by an ommmminous hummmmmm. Aliens, mercenaries, carbosilicate amorphs politicians, fast food, union goons, contracts, even a contract to exterminate the lawyers of the galaxy (Dangit, Howard! We need more of that). This may be the most consistently funny comic on the web, with no diversions into "art" or "relevance." Tayler eschews current events and ephemera and just sticks to plot, action and character, which makes the best points of all. And remember: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "time to reload."
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