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I've been reading Schlock Mercenary for about half my life now. I'm 33.
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Apr 19, 2018 10:59
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I'm mostly confused about why there are galactic mercenaries in the first place. With the level of technology being what it is, the Schlock universe should be a peaceful utopia. Or a hellscape run by AI or an AI-assisted regime.
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Jun 8, 2018 05:00
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SlothfulCobra posted:Although offhandedly I'm not sure what you mean, they're not really in a post-scarcity society. They still get their food out of cans. They have as good as limitless energy and nano-bots that give actual immortality. Cat Mattress posted:Heh, Girl Genius is revisiting a backburner plot from nearly 14 years ago. It looks like it not just revisiting it, but retelling the flashback!
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Jun 8, 2018 10:24
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Mors Rattus posted:I stopped reading it years ago after the whole Petey Entity and Gatekeeper War stuff where suddenly the koala AI was an unstoppable god-being. There is now another unstoppable god-being with guns that shoot through teleports and it's seemingly gone rogue.
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Jun 8, 2018 14:45
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TwoPair posted:Why are we talking about PFSC a bunch, did the Artist Formerly Known As John Campbell do something crazy recently? It doesn't even have demons in it, what is this thread becoming. What are you talking about? It has a lot of inner demons, it's a perfect fit.
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Nov 16, 2018 08:05
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Elephant Parade posted:The gently caress was he doing that for? Just start up a Patreon like every other webcomic artist under the sun, dude. He has a custom made Patreon that is set up per update, he's posted in the past that many of the backers cancel their cards or something so he doesn't get the full amount each time. He's also bad at sticking to a schedule and earlier this year (I think) his game plan was to have a skip or 2 every month (in a 2 updates a week schedule) without informing his readers.
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Dec 2, 2018 19:44
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Rand Brittain posted:Teenage werewolf Clifford is being stalked by experienced shapeshifter Raven, who has gone from "let's be friends based on mutual magical powers" to "you should abandon your ties to mere mortals" to "I will stalk you relentlessly" to "I am so crazy it is literally causing me to melt" over the course of, oh, let's say, twenty-four hours. He mentioned he had something under his skin that was driving him mad, he felt like he had to infect Clifford to keep it at bay or something.
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Dec 3, 2018 00:02
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Nuns with Guns posted:Doesn't Patreon have an option that's already "I only get paid when I do an update"? Yeah, but he's got a non-Patreon patreon setup on his site, called the Toolshed. People who sponsor him are Tools. He's also got 4 people working on his comic/site, which is insane when you realize it updates twice a week with a skip now and then and the quality isn't super amazing like K6BD or something.
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Dec 3, 2018 09:36
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pseudorandom name posted:Oh, good, I’m not the only one who’s completely lost the plot... Shlock's plot: some things happen. Someone realizes a new worst case scenario they didn't anticipate. That thing happens.
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Dec 23, 2018 11:01
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I've always thought Higgs was more of a super-spy that's been places and knew things, it never occured to me before this latest plotline that he'd be anything else. Rereading some parts now it makes more sense, but this comic's been going on for so long that I've forgotten so much.
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Mar 19, 2019 06:58
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I still like Girl Genius and actually liked their time in the castle, but I've reread a bunch of it now and holy poo poo that started like 10 years ago. Sure doesn't feel like a lot of story has happened since then.
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Mar 20, 2019 11:18
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Joe Slowboat posted:I admit I wasn't expecting eyeball planet genocide brain scooping from space when this chapter of Schlock Mercenary started. It was to be expected the day Tayler wrote a comic where that possibilty was raised, because he always does this in storylines. Writes some far-out techs or strategies or ambushes that might happen, then without fail later down the storyline they happen/get employed.
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Jun 2, 2019 09:37
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SlothfulCobra posted:Well there are like 7 members of that civilization left. One of them joined the mercenaries and got dissected by the UNS to make some of the immortality mods that they've been abusing lately. You'd think he'd come up more often with all this dead civilization talk. Once someone dies he/she's pretty much forgotten by the entire crew.
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Jun 3, 2019 23:24
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He also stopped making his long running comic like 4 or 5 years ago.
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Jun 17, 2019 00:03
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Schlock Mercenary started 19 years and nearly 2 weeks ago.
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Jun 24, 2019 06:18
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Haha I didn't even realize it was a Three Stooges thing. Partly cause they're not as big a thing in Europe, partly because it goes so slow I just didn't notice it.
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Aug 2, 2019 18:19
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Schlock Mercenary was one of the first webcomics I came across and still follow it daily. If I discovered it today I think I wouldn't bother.
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Aug 9, 2019 10:11
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Schlock Mercenary is in it's last storyline and ending next summer I think.
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Nov 2, 2019 11:05
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habeasdorkus posted:I'd point out that Wooster actually IS dead. Until he somehow returns later.
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Nov 22, 2019 19:10
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oriongates posted:Undead Friend, the comic I do with my wife, has just passed 400 pages on its reboot. Me and my wife are now reading it, it's fun and good.
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Dec 9, 2019 04:25
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PMush Perfect posted:"Forget about OOTS for a while and then come back and binge" is a common and probably very good way to read it. There's stretches of its run that you could do that and come back to 15 new pages.
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Mar 30, 2020 11:13
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There's ultimately only one comic that answered the question of how superheroes can better society as a whole.
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Apr 15, 2020 08:56
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3 posted:gonna emergency retool ADS into gag-a-day i guess You could go the other way and keep expanding the scope and eventually try to turn it into an animated series.
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May 5, 2020 09:18
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Airspace posted:It took me a while to realize that the spy died because of this. It's Girl Genius, I'm still not convinced he died.
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May 10, 2020 21:33
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Girl Genius is going to keep going until the Foglios decide to retire I'm sure. It's been obvious for a few years that while they have a story to tell, they're in no hurry to finish it because they like writing (and getting paid for) it. According to Wikipedia Phil is 64, so he's probably still got a few years left in him
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May 11, 2020 05:54
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Wittgen posted:This character in Wilde Life who seems to save the world and help people purely to spite people they don't like? Very good. I'm very much liking the character. Seem like a dude with an ex wife he loathes, who was into world-saving epic adventure and he stole one of her strongest artifacts because gently caress you. Now he's using up part of the artifact to save some non-name boring regular human doing something he very much doubts will actually work. More works of fiction can use people like this.
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May 11, 2020 16:06
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Agatha is going to turn out to be her own mother after a time travel gently caress-up.
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May 15, 2020 05:50
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oriongates posted:That hit close to home. I actually had to hold a mini-intervention for NJ to get her to stop redrawing the earlier chapters of Undead Friend. Tell her if she does that I'll stop reading.
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May 18, 2020 11:09
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Today in Girl Genius: “For me, it was last month!” Agatha cries, mourning the death of a character in 2006. Yeah I looked it up as well cause at first I didn't even remember who the hell Lars was. Even from Agatha's pov it can't have been just a month, right?
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Jul 1, 2020 12:29
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Malpais Legate posted:I used to like the White Faced Bear but today's update of Wilde Life has me thinking he can go gently caress himself. He's not wrong though. Dude keeps a ghost around because she's good company, instead of finding out what's keeping her a ghost and helping her move on.
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Jul 15, 2020 07:08
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Malpais Legate posted:The bear doesn't know that, though? The bear just doesn't want Oz around because reasons. I wouldn't put it past the bear to know that the house Oscar lives in is the house with a ghost haunting it. Bear can put two and two together. Though the bear would probably have told Eliza. Oscar's gonna lose some friends when the word gets out.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:09
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Captain Oblivious posted:Eliza knows about Sylvia. This is not the revelation you think it is. Ugh, I need to reread it all because clearly I'm starting to forget stuff. Not an 'ugh' that I have to reread Wilde Life, but that I'm forgetting.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:29
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Schlock Mercenary had entered the epilogue. I feel like this last storyline was missing a few beats, but I've always felt that Howard wraps up his stories kinda fast do he can focus on the overlong build-up to the next one.
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Jul 16, 2020 08:58
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The ending definitely did not do the entire story justice. A lot of stuff just happened because they had to, with no explanation of how and why. Still a feat I'd never pull off though, it's easy to criticize but hard to actually do.
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Jul 24, 2020 08:14
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PMush Perfect posted:Yeah, if things had gone differently, it really could've been something... awful. The main character turns out to be a serial abuser who's a grifter that lacks a spine?
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Nov 16, 2020 09:20
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SFP started strong as a story wherein Supergirl discovers she can't punch societal issues to fix them and ended sucky because the character growth was "let a vigilante assassin go on with her work, develop an app, punch the mental health issues out of her mind controlling boyfriend"
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Jan 29, 2021 20:28
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Maybe they'll finally get to fixing the time-stop in Mechanicsburg soon. Like another issue or 3-4 soon.
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Apr 12, 2021 16:10
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Klaus shoved a document under their noses and in their various states of frenzy, the blood splatters landed on the dotted line. A contract signed in blood is going to have some effect on even the most monstrous creature if it's crafted by a spark
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Apr 13, 2021 10:13
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GG gets away with reusing the previous stories because it takes so long to tell it, you've forgotten you've already read it before.
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Apr 13, 2021 19:15
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the holy poopacy posted:That baby is so jazzed about everything That baby is so jizzed about everything.
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