2020: There Will Be An Ending
The Schlock Mercenary mega-arc will draw to a close this year. The arc began when Schlock enlisted with Tagon’s Toughs in the strip dated June 12, 2000. That means it’s basically everything that has...
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Typecast RPG: The New Season Begins Tonight!
A new season of Typecast RPG begins tonight¹. The party must leave the snowy wastelands (which we all hated) and pay a visit to the Verdenfleet (which hates all of us.) There will be big changes for...
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We’re Having a Wedding This Week
Our oldest daughter, Keliana, is getting married on Wednesday. This has been playing merry Hell with my schedule, but it’s the very epitome of “merry Hell,” because we’re all quite happy. Tyler and...
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Achievement Unlocked: Married with Married Children
The wedding was beautiful. The reception was lovely. The day was exhausting, but only because it’s hard work packing that much joy, delight, and awesome into one contiguous sequence of waking hours....
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TypeCast RPG Tonight!
It’s Typecast RPG Night¹. Last week we discovered that Vaeron’s cloudscape civilization—massive flying cities kept aloft on the backs of dreaming gods—is kept intact at a price: human sacrifice is what...
View ArticleI’ve been sick…
The tl;dr—I’m on the mend, but miserable and exhausted. I lost about five days during which I bathed zero times, sweat all the way through my clothing four times, and didn’t draw any comics. Today I...
View ArticleSomebody Spoke Too Soon About Being on the Mend
I’ve been sick for over a month now. The good news is that I’m not down with fever and body-aches anymore, but I’m still exhausted all the time, and my voice is a ragged wreck of a thing which is...
View ArticleOver-Reaction is the Best Reaction
We’re self-quarantining here at Chez Tayler, but the State of Utah and the LDS Church are helping things along immensely by canceling school and church for us. We’re extremely fortunate that we already...
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Streaming Live, Tuesdays at 9pm Eastern!
TypeCast RPG, which I haven’t blogged about in a while, is still a thing I’m doing on Tuesday nights. It’s a D&D 5e game set in a world of flying cities which are built on the backs of sleeping...
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Twenty Years of Archives, Ad-Free!
Would you like to be reading Schlock Mercenary ad-free? How about being able to read it a week at a time, and in a higher resolution? Join the Schlock Mercenary Patreon, and for just $2.50 per month,...
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Tonight We’ll Try Role-Playing a Heist
Tonight on TypeCastRPG we’ll be attempting something new. We’re going to work some game mechanics from the LEVERAGE role-playing game into our D&D 5e session to role-play a heist. Our Goal: to free...
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We Stole a God, Now We Need to Land Him
Last week’s episode of TypeCastRPG was heist-themed. We stole the sleeping giant Ghubrak from a museum, strapped him up with a sailcloth and a magical engine, and then got ourselves excreted from the...
View ArticleWhy Yes, We ARE Wrapping Things Up Here
Sergeant In Motion: Schlock Mercenary Book 20, is drawing to a close, and with it, we’re wrapping up the twenty-year Schlock Mercenary mega-arc, that huge, daily, serial contiguity I started back in...
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And That Makes Twenty
With this most recent update, Schlock Mercenary has run for twenty years. Daily, with no missed updates, no re-runs, and no guest strips… From June 12th of 2000 to June 11th of 2020, that’s twenty...
View ArticleDone, At Least For A while…
When I started creating Schlock Mercenary it poured forth like a dam had broken. I was driven—whether by deep personal need, or demons from the deep, it doesn’t matter—to make comics, and I felt...
View ArticleTuesday Night AMA!
My friends at TypeCastRPG¹ are hosting a streaming AMA with me at 9pm Eastern on July 28th. You can post questions into the chatroom, so if you’ve ever wanted to ask me something, this is your...
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Stuff I’m Working On
Sabbatical notwithstanding, I’ve got work to do. The big project on my plate right now is the BIG DUMB OBJECTS bonus story, tentatively titled “The Big Disassembly,” which shares the TBD acronym with...
View ArticleShop Early, It’s Gonna Get Turbulent
Maybe I’m putting too fine a point on this, but holiday shipping is going to be a mess this year. There are a lot of factors at work, but let’s just set aside the “why” and talk about how to get ahead...
View ArticleLet’s review some movies
It’s been a while, I know. I haven’t been to the theater since February, and I suppose I could describe my spring, summer, and fall to you, but all three of them were mightily 2020’d, so let’s just...
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TENET
TENET is one of those films like THE SIXTH SENSE in which any review of the film must dance around the fact that it’s very, very difficult to say much about it—especially in any sort of critical...
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