Schlock Mercenary

Schlock Mercenary
Schlock Mercenary
Schlock Mercenary book 1 - Under New Management.jpeg
Schlock Mercenary book 3: Under New Management
Author(s) Howard Tayler
Website http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
Current status / schedule Active / Daily
Launch date June 12, 2000; 11 years ago (2000-06-12)[1]
Genre(s) Science Fiction, Comedy

Schlock Mercenary is a comedic webcomic written and drawn by Howard Tayler. It follows the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting. Since its debut on June 12, 2000 the comic has updated daily, begun to support its author, and been nominated for three Hugo Awards.

Contents

Publication history

Over time, Tayler's art improved from, in his words, bad to "marginally less bad."[1] Jean Elmore served as colorist for the strip from February 9, 2003 to the spring of 2004 when she developed a repetitive strain injury from her work.

On March 3, 2003, the comic reached its 1001st strip. Tayler marked the milestone by "re-launching" the comic. With the relaunch, the strip was slightly reoriented for publication, organizing the comic's ongoing story into "books". Each book has a fairly self-contained story, although they are still chronological and connected.[2]

On December 2, 2005, Tayler published the comic's 2000th daily strip[3] since the series' debut. On June 12, 2010, Schlock Mercenary marked ten years of uninterrupted daily run, a feat matched by few other webcomics.[citation needed]

In March 2006, Tayler published Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management, the first book-based collection of Schlock Mercenary comics. This collection features stories printed from March 9, 2003 through August 23, 2003, plus five pages of new material including a foreword by John Ringo, a feature explaining how Sgt. Schlock "got turned on to plasma cannons", bonus art, the author's biography, and architectural deck plans to Tagon's third ship Serial Peacemaker.

In December 2007, Tayler published Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness. It features stories from the beginning of the webcomic to October 2001, as well as the bonus story "Baggage Claim," explaining the circumstances around Schlock joining the Toughs. There are numerous pieces of fan art throughout the book, as well as early concept art drawn by Tayler and notes to the reader from both Tayler and his wife, talking about the characters and Tayler's early cartooning efforts.

Cast

Main article: List of Schlock Mercenary characters

The story primarily centers on Captain Kaff Tagon and his mercenary crew, Tagon's Toughs. Notable members of the crew include Munitions Commander and resident mad scientist Kevyn Andreyasn; title character Sergeant Schlock, who is a carbosilicate amorph with no easily definable limbs, organs, or moral compass; Petey, a former artificial intelligence and now Fleetmind and pseudo-God; and the wry AI and former boyband, Ennesby.

Story

Many plotlines revolve around the jobs Kaff Tagon and his mercenary crew have accepted, preferably involving as much brawn as necessary and as little brain as possible (although resident mad scientist Kevyn Andreyasn can pick up the slack if need be). Other times, the crew is swept up in a galaxy- or universe-spanning conflict.

In the distant future of Schlock Mercenary's setting, many changes have faced Terran society. Faster-than-light travel has been attained, alien races have been contacted, and technology has undergone radical improvements.

Alien species have varied from fairly humanoid to almost unrecognizable. There have been carbosilicate amorphs with no easily definable limbs or organs (the eponymous Sgt. Schlock), eight-limbed Gatekeepers, two-bodied Uklakk, and the unknowable Paan'uri, beings made of dark matter.

The number of sapient species descended from terran stock has increased as Earth's genetic engineers refined their craft. Enhanced chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, snakes and two species of sentient elephant now have citizenship. Genetic enhancement of the human population has resulted in the purple-skinned photosynthetic "Purps", along with more general improvements to the population.

Technology

As in many science fiction stories, technology forms a large part of Schlock Mercenary's storytelling framework. Several story arcs revolve around the political conflict surrounding rapid technological change. When a particularly complex or interesting new system is introduced to the comic, its in-comic explanation is often supplemented with a footnote.

Travel between the stars is accomplished through the use of "wormgates", large wormhole generators controlled by the enigmatic F'sherl-Ganni Gatekeepers. Within the storyline of the comic, wormgates are largely supplanted by the "teraport", a device that allows for near-instant travel between any two points—as long as neither point is within range of an interdicting device. In that case, the teraporting object is destroyed.

The F'sherl-Ganni also constructed several buuthandi, Schlock Mercenary's take on a Dyson sphere. A buuthandi is a balloon of solar-sail material around a star. Light pressure and solar wind offset the star's gravitation to keep the balloon inflated, while habitats and maintenance facilities dangling from the inner side act as ballast to keep the sails in check. Despite their tremendous surface area, a buuthandi provides a disproportionally small amount livable habitat.[4] "Control cables, millions of square kilometers of slack sail material, and some very clever engineering allow the 'balloon' to compensate for (and in some cases mitigate) the mood swings of the contained star."[5] In the Schlock Mercenary universe, a buuthandi is about 300 million kilometers in diameter.[6]

Medical technology is based on nanotechnology or artificial replacements for damaged body parts. One important item that is featured in the comic is the "magic cryo-kit", an illegally modified device that has the capability to rebuild an entire body as long as the brain is intact. In the strip this has always been shown as "from the head down" but presumably nothing more than the brain is actually necessary. It appears that conventional, legal medical technology is also capable of full-body regeneration, though at a much slower pace and dependent on your HMO insurance options. The Toughs employ various technologies to protect survival of heads until their owners can be regenerated. An example of this technology is the comedically ubiquitous "head-in-a-jar", which permits a character to interact in a storyline despite an otherwise-fatal injury. Another is the "nanny-bag", which maintains the severed head and/or entire body of an otherwise mortally-wounded teammate for an unknown length of time. (Evidence as to the duration of a nanny-bag's preservation varies—the head of Kevyn Andreyasn was sustained for several weeks, whereas in a past storyline his companions worried about his head going "gamey" after less than an hour. Though the latter may have simply been Sergeant Schlock's opinion.)

In addition to medical benefits, nanotechnology gives the ability to "boost" soldiers to high levels of physical performance. Minor enhancements are legal, but the more extreme military modifications are highly regulated. The most significant examples of soldier-boosting within the strip are the mercenary grunt Nick[7] and the bounty hunter Doythaban,[8][9] along with the extreme boost of Kevyn.[10]

Computer hardware has progressed to the point where true, strong artificial intelligence is common, and several artificial intelligences have been characters in the story.

Weapons technology has been drastically improved as well, and a mercenary's arsenal can include railguns, lasers, non-lethal nanomotive "goober" rounds, and plasma cannons. Old-fashioned bullet-firing firearms are still in use as they continue to be effective against unprotected targets and are less likely to rupture a hull than a plasma bolt.

Energy is a resource literally too cheap to meter. Anything that cannot be powered by miniaturized fusion reactors (which, in the 31st century, are so advanced they can operate solely on atmospheric gasses[11]), is easily fueled by massively powerful neutronium-annihilation "annie" plants - spherical devices that generate massive amounts of power by gravitationally converting mass to energy, a means of power generation made possible by ubiquitous gravity manipulation. One-shot devices (and bombs) are often powered by fullerened antimatter, a carbon-based powder which contains antiprotons at the parts-per-thousand level, and should never be incinerated.

Gravity manipulation is a process as commonplace as modern electronics, employed not only in starship propulsion and artificial gravity, but also weapons and shielding against weapons. Controlled/artificial gravity is referred to as "gravy." Gravitic weapons in particular are both common and well developed due to their dual purpose—not only are they potent weapons, they can compress matter into neutronium which can then fuel an annie plant. The degree of this control is dependent on the number of projectors. For example, the Battleplate Tunguska was able to manipulate not only individual limbs but individual digits of crew on board the Serial Peacemaker[12] while the much smaller ship can only create nodes of gravity in a few points on the ship and without the same level of control. However, the generation of gravity is beyond the capabilities of the sophonts of the Milky Way, necessitating ships to be constructed around annie plants as sources of gravity to manipulate[citation needed].

These devices and more are built using fabrication technology, or "fabbers". While rare and expensive, possession of one of these portable factories and the appropriate designs allows for the cheap mass-production of any physical item.[13] Several of the mercenaries are trained in fabber design, allowing the company to cheaply produce and repair their own gear.

Schlocktoberfest

A mostly annual storyline that occurs during the month of October. The story arc always starts out typically, but soon develops a dark tone, usually involving gruesome events and often character death, before typically resolving itself at the end of the month. It is considered Schlock Mercenary's version of Halloween stories. However, Tayler did not continue this tradition in 2009 or 2010 and has stated that he is no longer doing it.[14]

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries[15] is a popular handbook in the Schlock Mercenary universe.

This book was originally called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates,[16][17][18] a parody of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, but after Tayler received a cease and desist letter from FranklinCovey, he made the retcon on January 24, 2011. Tayler said that the letter "was worded as nicely as such a thing can be".[19]

The book's maxims are often quoted by Tagon, as well as other characters. The following is a list of the maxims found in Schlock Mercenary, ordered by maxim number. The date given after each maxim is the date it first appeared in the strip.

1. Pillage, then burn. (7 February 2002)[20]
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. (31 July 2009)[21]
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. (1 November 2009)[22]
4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. (14 April 2008)[23]
5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. (21 April 2010)[24]
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. (13 March 2005)[25]
7. If the food is good enough the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire. (20 April, 2011)[26]
8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock. (21 November 2002)[27]
9. Never turn your back on an enemy. (8 March 2003)[28]
10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull. (17 January 2009)[29]
11. Everything is air-droppable at least once. (15 April 2008)[30]
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. (21 November 2002)[27]
13. Do unto others. (8 March 2003)[28]
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?" (Resident Mad Scientist, back cover)[31]
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire. (18 November 2010)[32]
16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. (21 November 2002)[27]
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow. (4 April 2004)[15]
27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence. (8 March 2003)[28]
28. If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid to bring ammunition home with you. (7 September 2011)[33]
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. (8 March 2003)[28]
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go. (8 March 2003)[28]
31. Only cheaters prosper. (11 May 2003)[34]
34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun. (29 February 2004)[12]
35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error. (T-shirt sold by Tayler)
36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support. (2 October 2003)[35]
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.' (23 February 2004)[36]
Alternate version: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'time to reload.' (6 March 2004)(Poster sold by Tayler)
38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients. (26 March 2004)[37][38]

Honors

The first Schlock Mercenary book publication was covered in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, which described it as "inventive and humorous."[39] The comic tied for outstanding science fiction comic in the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in 2004,[40] and was again nominated in 2005[41] and 2007.[42] The strip won for Best Cameo in the 2001 awards.[43]

Three story collections have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story: The Body Politic (2009);[44] The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse (2010);[45] and Massively Parallel (2011).[46]

Collections

Schlock Mercenary book II: The Blackness Between.

Collections of Schlock Mercenary strips are published in book form by "The Tayler Corporation", i.e. they are self-published. The first published collection, Under New Management does not start at the beginning of the archive, but at the 1001st strip, when the strip was relaunched. The first 1,000 strips were published later in books 1 and 2. Announced book titles are as follows:[47][48][49]

The books were renumbered to allow for the release of The Tub of Happiness. Originally, they used Roman numerals, with Under New Management as the first book.

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b "Schlock Mercenary: The Archive Synopsize". The Tayler Corporation. http://www.schlockmercenary.com/archive.html. Retrieved November 18, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Howard Tayler interviewed at The Pulse". Comicon.com. http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004490. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  4. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 21, 2002). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020421.html. Retrieved February 15, 2007. 
  5. ^ Tayler, Howard (March 9, 2002). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020309.html. Retrieved February 15, 2007. 
  6. ^ Tayler, Howard (July 7, 2001). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010707.html. Retrieved February 15, 2007. 
  7. ^ Tayler, Howard (November 5, 2001). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20011105.html. Retrieved April 30, 2007. 
  8. ^ Tayler, Howard (November 17, 2002). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20021117.html. Retrieved April 30, 2007. 
  9. ^ Tayler, Howard (March 9, 2001). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010309.html. Retrieved April 30, 2007. 
  10. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 29, 2007). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070429.html. Retrieved April 30, 2007. 
  11. ^ Tayler, Howard (August 29, 2000). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20000829.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  12. ^ a b Tayler, Howard (February 29, 2004). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040229.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  13. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 25, 2004). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040425.html. Retrieved February 15, 2007. 
  14. ^ Tayler, Howard (October 31, 201o). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/halloween2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010. 
  15. ^ a b Tayler, Howard (April 4, 2004). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-04-04. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  16. ^ halr9000 (2006-03-13). "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates". http://halr9000.com/article/281. Retrieved 25 January 2011. 
  17. ^ Countryboy (2005-11-12). "[LMB OT: The 7 habits of Highly Effective Pirates"]. http://lists.herald.co.uk/pipermail/lois-bujold/2005-November/009496.html. Retrieved 25 January 2011. 
  18. ^ Ballsun-Stanton, Brian (2005-09-26). "Tagon’s Toughs and Improvisational IT". Rochester Inst. of Technology. http://unseen-u.org/~denubis/tdzk/TagonsToughsCaseStudy.pdf. Retrieved 25 January 2011. "References to the rules comes from the fictional book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates.” This book is referenced in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary http://www.schlockmercenary.com" 
  19. ^ Tayler, Howard (January 24, 2011). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/the-great-retcon-of-twenty-eleven. Retrieved January 25, 2011. 
  20. ^ Tayler, Howard (February 7, 2002). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020207.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  21. ^ Tayler, Howard (July 31, 2009). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090731.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  22. ^ Tayler, Howard (November 1, 2009). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091101.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  23. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 14, 2008). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080414.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  24. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 21, 2010). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100421.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  25. ^ Tayler, Howard (March 13, 2005). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050313.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  26. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 20, 2011). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-04-20. Retrieved November 21, 2011.  Originally, no number reference was given, nor was it confirmed as a maxim. Confirmed as a maxim in Schlock Mercenary 2012 Monthly Calendar
  27. ^ a b c Tayler, Howard (November 21, 2002). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20021121.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  28. ^ a b c d e Tayler, Howard (March 8, 2003). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  29. ^ Tayler, Howard (January 17, 2009). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090117.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  30. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 15, 2008). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080415.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  31. ^ Tayler, Howard (April 20, 2010). "Schlock Mercenary". http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4538945830_46eff5b45a.jpg. Retrieved June 15, 2010. 
  32. ^ Tayler, Howard (November 18, 2010). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-11-18. Retrieved November 18, 2010. 
  33. ^ Tayler, Howard (September 7, 2011). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-07. Retrieved September 6, 2011. 
  34. ^ Tayler, Howard (May 11, 2003). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030511.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  35. ^ Tayler, Howard (October 2, 2003). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20031002.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  36. ^ Tayler, Howard (February 23, 2004). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040223.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  37. ^ Tayler, Howard (March 26, 2004). "Schlock Mercenary". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040326.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010.  Originally, no number reference was given, nor was it confirmed as a rule. Later confirmed as rule 38 by author.
  38. ^ Tayler, Howard (May 11, 2002). "rule?". The Nightstar Zoo Forums. http://zoo.nightstar.net/viewtopic.php?p=139901#p139901. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  39. ^ "The Reference Library: Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. November 2006. http://www.analogsf.com/0611/reflib_11.shtml. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
  40. ^ "2004 Results". Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2004. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9J1fGwz. Retrieved April 21, 2010. 
  41. ^ "2005 Results". Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2005. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9JJLQxp. Retrieved April 21, 2010. 
  42. ^ "2007 Results". Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2007. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9JLT7dk. Retrieved April 21, 2010. 
  43. ^ "2001 Winners and Nominees". Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2001. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9IkMRFf. Retrieved April 21, 2010. 
  44. ^ "2009 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. August 10, 2009. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9Kbt4t7. Retrieved April 20, 2010. 
  45. ^ "2010 Hugo Award Nominees – Details". World Science Fiction Society. April 4, 2010. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5p9KgKNe0. Retrieved April 20, 2010. 
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  47. ^ Tayler, Howard. "The Schlock Mercenary Archive Synopsizer". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/archive.html. Retrieved 2006-09-13. 
  48. ^ Tayler, Howard. "Blógünder Schlock: Sketch Editions will hit the mail tomorrow". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/sketch-editions-will-hit-the-mail-tomorrow/. Retrieved 2006-06-25. 
  49. ^ Tayler, Howard. "Blógünder Schlock: Some “Director’s Commentary”". http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/18/some-directors-commentary/. Retrieved 2007-05-20. 
  50. ^ My plate is piled high
  51. ^ November 12, 2011 comic

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