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Schlock Mercenary
Books in series
#1
The Tub of Happiness
2007
Welcome to Tagon's Toughs, a mercenary company whose newest recruit is almost as much trouble as the new owners. They want to revolutionize space travel. Schlock just wants to hurt people and break things. This 240-page volume takes the reader back to the very start of Schlock Mercenary, and then some. It opens with nine pages of all-new strips telling the story of how Schlock came to enlist, and then forges onward chronologically from the very first strip. It also includes concept sketches, commentary, excellent guest art, deck plans for the Kitesfear.
If you've been waiting to devour this Schlock Mercenary from the very beginning, the wait is over: grab your big spoon and dig into the Tub of Happiness.
#2
The Teraport Wars
2008
Sergeant Schlock lost his eyes, and thanks to a quirk of amorph biology he needs to steal new ones. Naturally, he asks Tagon's Toughs to help. Then an offer for real employment arrives, and Schlock, Tagon, and the rest of the company find themselves engaged in a battle for galactic domination. Admiral Breya Andreyasn has attacked a Buuthandi (think "Dyson's Helium Balloon"), and needs their help to steal its technology and perhaps rescue eighty billion gate-clones. This second volume of
Schlock Mercenary
picks up where
The Tub of Happiness
left off, and features all of the original strips and footnotes, plus concept art, guest art, deck plans for the
Post-Dated Check Loan
, and eleven pages of all-new strips featuring Schlock's very first combat mission. Gird up your annie-plant, grab an obligatory fiddly-bit and prepare for
The Teraport Wars
!
#3
Under New Management
2006
This is the first-ever print collection of Schlock Mercenary comics. It includes the complete "Under New Management" story, plus all new footnotes, Sunday-style coloring on every strip, sketches galore, deck plans of the Serial Peacemaker, a group 'photo,' and a bonus 'origins' story about Sergeant Schlock and his first plasma cannon. These 80 full-color glossy pages are a must-have for fans of the comic, and a perfect primer for everyone else.
#4
The Blackness Between
2006
This is the second print collection of Schlock Mercenary, and it is chock-full of new footnotes and sketches, plus 8 pages of never-before-seen bonus story explaining how Schlock got rich escaping from the circus. This 100 page, full-color collection can stand alone, but makes an ideal companion volume to Under New Management.
#5
The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance
2009
Captain Tagon and Admiral Andreyasn need payroll and parts before their little fleet falls apart. But when they finally do locate honest work and military surplus equipment it may all prove to be far, far more trouble than it was worth. This is the fifth print collection of
Schlock Mercenary
the epic space opera delivered four panels at a time.
#6
Resident Mad Scientist
2010
Commander Kevyn Andreysn invented the Teraport so when something huge goes horribly wrong and starts interfering with every teraport in the galaxy Kevyn may be the only person who can set it right! Resident Mad Scientist is the sixth book in the Schlock Mercenary comic series.
#7
Emperor Pius Dei
2011
"No matter how hard I rattle this maraca, I can't seem to shake a new ship out of it." Tagon's Toughs are on shore leave: No ship, no payroll, and no prospects. Then a ship becomes available at a price that's just too low to pass up, even if it does mean that there might possibly be some strings attached—long invisible ones trailing straight back to the Galactic Core... This is the seventh print collection of Schlock Mercenary, the epic space opera delivered four panels at a time. It features 176 pages of comics in full color along with margin art and a never-seen-on-the-web bonus story.
#8
The Sharp End of the Stick
2012
"The 248th just found some non indexed backups in the temporal cortex." Commander Kevyn Andreysn has gone primitive, along with Elf, Brad, Nick, Pronto, and Schlock, but Kevyn is missing some memories. "What you don't know can't hurt you" doesn't hold true here, because what Kevyn doesn't know has already killed him at least once, and it's about to happen again..."
#9
The Body Politic
2013
"But...we hate that guy!" Captain Tagon has a difficult mission ahead of him. He must convince his own company that the contract to rescue former General Xinchub is worth taking, in spite of the fact that every man, woman, and carbosilicate amorph in the company would rather see Xinchub dead. It would be ever so much easier if they could arrive just a little bit too late and instead of rescuing King Xinchub the Prandial, Tagon's Toughs could get paid to steal his body...
#10
Longshoreman of the Apocalypse
2010
The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse
follows the crew of the mercenary ship
Touch-and-Go
through what should have been a routine food delivery to the Credomar habitat, a human space colony that’s having some—a lot—of political problems. The contract didn’t mention the political problems. Through various stages of combat and comical mishaps, the
Touch-and-Go
crew tries to stay alive and deliver the food to somebody, without being sued into oblivion.
Authors
Howard Tayler
Author · 22 books
Travis Walton
Author · 2 books
Sandra Tayler
Author · 3 books
Schlock Mercenary
Series ·
16
books · 2006-2023
By
Howard Tayler
,
Travis Walton
,
Sandra Tayler
#11
Massively Parallel
2014
"I told you we were going to fast.' With their ship just two hull breaches short of derelict status, Captain Tagon and his mercenary company must make a stop for repairs... extensive, expensive ones, which means that instead of taking shore leave, they split up for odd jobs and easy money. Money is never easy. Credomar, the Barsoom Circus, and Mall One all promise mayhem for pay, but those nigh-simultaneous dust-ups pale in comparison to the fight that awaits the Toughs once they have a ship under their feet again.
#13
Random Access Memorabilia
2012
#14
Broken Wind
2013
No ship, no job, and no prospects. But somebody did just pop a sapient balloon. Let's find out what's inside...
#15
Delegates and Delegation
2014
#16
Big, Dumb Objects
2016
Cans full of sky, balloons full of star, and rogue artificial planets full of death: They're not dumb, but poking them to see how they work just might be.
#17
A Little Immortality
2023
"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.