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2013-01-17, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-17, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
SpoilerObviously not everyone is going to take Petey's offer here, but I would be surprised if no one did. So who do you think is ready for early retirement?Last edited by Lizard Lord; 2013-01-17 at 04:05 PM.
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2013-01-17, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-18, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Did anyone else see that coming? Because I sure didn`t.
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2013-01-18, 10:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I really hope this isn't building up to an announcement that Shlock Mercenary is ending its run.
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2013-01-19, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
No, I don't think so. There's plenty of room for more story without the further adventures of Tagon's Toughs, even in the worst case scenario.
If the Toughs dissolve, frankly I suspect it'd be because Taylor wanted to dispense some characters who were only around because there was no reason to get rid of them, off to some reasonably satisfactory retirement, like he did with Der Trihs, Nick and Shep.
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2013-01-19, 01:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I find it hard to believe that this is Karl's retirement, or at least his permanent one. Much as he'd hate to admit it, he's got a hero's heart somewhere deep, deep, deep down under all that money-grubbing. And there's too much going on now for him to just ignore it.
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2013-01-19, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
The Toughs kept going before without Tagon (he died once, remember?) so why should they stop now, even if Tagon retires? Not that I think he's likely to, mind you.
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2013-01-19, 03:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
he'll TRY to retire but accidently stumble on some UNS black ops project and end up causing an even bigger mess than he would if he wasn't trying to be a civilian. Peetey will then give him a ship as a way of minimizing the colateral damage.
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2013-01-19, 05:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2013-01-19, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Worry not, fellow Schlock fans. Howard has already said that June 12th, 2012 was the start of Act 3 of the comic. We've got around 5 to 7 more major story arcs to go (including this Broken Wind arc).
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2013-01-19, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Howard said something about knowing when the comic would end, let me look it up...
Oh, look, somebody found it already. While I will be sad when Schlock comes to an end, there is a limit to how long I will believe the Toughs can dodge the karmic doom they have built up.
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2013-01-20, 01:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2013-01-20, 03:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Not necessarily if you never go into UNS space--they'd be perfectly safe in Petey's territory, for instance, so long as the Pa'anuri don't break through; and if the Pa'anuri do, well, doesn't matter where in the galaxy you happen to be, you're probably not going to survive it!
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2013-01-20, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Frankly I think part of the reason this is happening is the Toughs are too small-time to be the focus of the events that are going on right now. They need to get eyes into the inner workings of some of the big players. That can't happen while the focus is on a small cruiser and its hapless crew. They were the first cause of a lot of the story, but the story itself has passed that small mercenary company by, and Howard may feel he needs to get that company out of the way so the actual story has a chance to be told.
As for Petey's own motivations? I strongly suspect that he's found that he can predict just about everyone in the universe accurately except the Toughs. Something about them tends to introduce a lot of chaos into his machinations and he'd rather put them someplace safe while he goes about fixing everything and saving the universe. At least until he's found a situation where he legitimately needs to introduce a bit of chaos into the equation again.Last edited by Imgran; 2013-01-20 at 09:22 AM.
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2013-01-20, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
There's a problem with that big players thing, and that is the name of the strip. Tagon may or may not leave, but we'll keep following schlock, the strip is named after him.
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2013-01-20, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I suspect Petey motives is simply that he wants to protect people he considers friends, but he know he can't spare the energy to break them from another UNS battleplate (it happened twice already already , he's a 'three strikes' guy)
So he's offering them a chance to walk out where he can keep an eye on them and protect them from UNS silencing.
There's a problem with that big players thing, and that is the name of the strip. Tagon may or may not leave, but we'll keep following schlock, the strip is named after him.
Yeah I doubt so.
(Mind you, I'd read it. They look lice there'd be occasion for nice throwbacks to the smaller funnier earlier days of the comic. But they look like 'hardprint bonus storry' material)
Most likely the Tough will have to spring in action for some reason weither they like it or not.
I'm disapointed at Petey here, I though he was more genre savvy. Last time the Toughs tried to just enjoy a vaccation, the end of the galaxy happened, think of what will happen if they start considering retirement ?!Last edited by smuchmuch; 2013-01-20 at 10:43 AM.
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2013-01-21, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Wait, Schlock is TROLLING Petey?
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2013-01-21, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I cannot believe that nobody has made this joke yet.
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2013-01-21, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-21, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-22, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't know it has been showed before he hasn't much social skills and it's been a while since he had shown his own sociopathic side. He might have been genuinely clueless about what Petey meant here.
(At least today strip seems to show it this way)Last edited by smuchmuch; 2013-01-22 at 07:19 AM.
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2013-01-25, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
It's looking increasingly unlikely that Tagii is the one in charge of the maraca.
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2013-01-25, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I suspect this "retirement" arc is a way to remove Petey's Deus ex Machina properties smoothly, both in-comic and out. If he makes the generous offer of a comfortable retirement, and the Toughs refuse, then Petey will no longer be seen as having a significant impetus to pull their fat out of the fire, when he needs that energy to fight his war.
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2013-01-26, 02:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I think it's more likely Howard wants to mix up the team and get a few new characters in to stop it becoming stale. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Thurl accepts the retirement offer, given what happened to him during the Oisri arc! (Bit surprised we haven't seen him again--surely the Doctor has had time to regrow him a new body by now?).
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2013-01-26, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Looks like Tagii is quite handily restrained by Ennesby. Survivor and prisoner, rather than mole, or so it seems to me.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2013-01-26, 11:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-26, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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It could simply be out of pity. If he told anyone you can be sure she'd get ereased fast. (and understandably so).
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2013-01-26, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Yes, I figure it was just a bit of AI to AI mercy.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2013-01-26, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Speaking of mercy, it might be advantageous of Ennesby to hand Tagii over to Petey right now. She won't die, she'll get to disappear entirely (even she's got to admit she's very vulnerable in Ennesby's mind), and she'll have access to all the power Petey has.