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Schlock Mercenary #17
A Little Immortality
"My statue is holding a bomb, and doesn't have his helmet up."
Captain Tagon is back from the dead, re-grown just in time to risk his new self in a hunt for some missing researchers. He only lost about an hour of his previous self's memories, but he's been gone for four months, and things have changed.
Naturally, what appears to be a simple case of corporate espionage is something else entirely; something much larger, much older, and infinitely more dangerous... something Tagon's employers really should have mentioned.
Maybe things haven't changed that much after all.
Captain Tagon is back from the dead, re-grown just in time to risk his new self in a hunt for some missing researchers. He only lost about an hour of his previous self's memories, but he's been gone for four months, and things have changed.
Naturally, what appears to be a simple case of corporate espionage is something else entirely; something much larger, much older, and infinitely more dangerous... something Tagon's employers really should have mentioned.
Maybe things haven't changed that much after all.
127 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
About the author
Howard Tayler
48 books170 followersHoward spent most of his happy childhood in Florida where he was on the swim team in grade school, and in a rock band in high school. He graduated in 1985 and moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University.
After two years there, he served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), after which he returned to school at BYU and decided to move to Provo permanently after graduating and getting married.
He currently works full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary , as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients.
He is married to author and editor Sandra Tayler.
See the author page on Schlock Mercenary website
After two years there, he served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), after which he returned to school at BYU and decided to move to Provo permanently after graduating and getting married.
He currently works full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary , as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients.
He is married to author and editor Sandra Tayler.
See the author page on Schlock Mercenary website
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June 19, 2023
Another hit by Howard Tayler. I've read all of the comics contained in this book in real time as they were released daily, and I have to say it all hangs together better in book form, just because with much less time elapsed between reading them I can keep track of the characters and plot better. The story is definitely pushing towards it's conclusion at this point, though we keep getting new characters and ideas, and it's fun to see how the storytelling keeps pushing things forward will still hitting the joke a day quota of a daily comic strip. I think one of my favorite pieces is the Tagon thread (admittedly also one of the central pieces), where he's essentially cloned, and isn't certain if he can live up to the heroic legacy that he left for himself. His struggle with resolving what that means, only to have it actually be resolved in his actions by the end of the book, is a lot of fun to see.
December 26, 2019
It is interesting watching the various ideas being developed in this web comic as it goes on. In this volume Tagon grapples with what it means to be resurrected from backup, we encounter an ancient civilization in a matrioshka brain, and questions related to the Fermi paradox start to raise their heads. How the story all resolves (which I understand will be when volume 20 concludes in June of 2020) promises to be quite a ride.
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