Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos

[Gez]

Tagon ordered Ventura to get TAG working, and he was refusing to do so for no technologically justifiable reason.

This strip is pivotal. Although TAG's smugbrowed expression might mean "this isn't going to work, kid", it seemed like it was a genuine opening for a way to convince him to get back to work, at least for a while. But that wasn't Ventura's plan A.