It occurs to me to offer a hat-tip to @HowardTayler, having just received our numbered sketch edition volume 18 — yes, 18 — of the Schlock Mercenary print collection, Mandatory Failure.

If you're not familiar with it, Schlock Mercenary is a
hilarious (and yet also serious at times) SF webcomic about a far-future mercenary company (and many other things), set in a rich universe with its own technologies and a host of alien races, not all of them organic (or even baryonic). It ran for over 20 years, from June 12, 2000 to July 4, 2020 without ever missing a single day. Do NOT underestimate how difficult that is.

If you missed it on first run, you can always go back right now and re-read it from the start. Or, you could buy a set (ALMOST complete now) of the big, gorgeous softcover books.

Check it out. It's worth your time.

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Tuesday 29 September 2020

Daily strip for Tuesday 29 September 2020

@zakalwe @HowardTayler I frequently tell people the Schlock Mercenary is one of the best pieces of science fiction in this century.