Original Art for auction
Posted November 16th, 2009 by Sandra Tayler
Howard has once again collaborated with his daughter Keliana to create some Schlock-themed artwork. This piece was done as margin art for the upcoming book Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist, and features Reverend Theo Fobius discussing something (probably religion) with Petey and a Meaty-Petey.
Keliana has expressed the desire for some Christmas money, so we’re auctioning this original prior to publication of the book in which it will appear. As usual, half of the proceeds of the sale will go directly to Keliana. You can place your bids here.
If this original gets out of your price range, don’t forget that the small original artwork ACEO cards are still available in our store. Those are all Howard, though. If you want Keliana-colored ACEO cards you’ll have to wait a while… perhaps indefinitely. Those don’t interest her very much, and we’re letting her follow her interests rather than just chaining her to a drawing table in the basement.
In completely unrelated news, it did not take long for somebody to reference today’s strip in the Wikipedia article for Styx’s “Mister Roboto.” Howard now feels culturally significant!
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November 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Wow. She’s really doing amazing work. Her hard work has really paid off…
November 16th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Someone out there must have thought “Ooh! Pop culture reference! Better make a note of that.”
November 16th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
How is she ever going to become a proper cog if you let her go her own way?
November 16th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Meaty-Petey…That’d be good for a t-shirt…
November 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Not that Wikipedia likes those trivia-like lists of pop culture references, but oh well.
As for today’s (2009-11-17’s) strip, I would have thought that NSB would have realized by now that King Lota said that Lota /was/ the infosphere, not that Lota was /in/ in infosphere.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
*in the
November 16th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Just wondering: Is that small picture indication that there will be smoking or eaten lawyer drones in the future? I like those stories.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Is Travis Walton still coloring Schlock on a daily basis? I don’t see a credit for him on it, and I know that if Howard still had him engaged in working on his comic now that he would give credit where credit is due. If he is still coloring the strips, then I suspect that his missing credit is merely an oversight that will be corrected soon…
November 17th, 2009 at 6:03 am
the …”eyewater” is still there so it looks like he is…
on another note: i’ve thought for years now that wikipedia should either just give in and add directory parts or they should add a “wikirectory” (course the later bit i’ve only thought for 2 minutes)
November 17th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I love the picture, but right now everything including air is out of my price range because I can’t buy my asthma meds.
I would like to congradulate Howard on the Wikipidia link. The reference is wonderfully funny.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Speaking of Wikipidia and Schlock Mercenary.
This weekend I went hunting for the “Cee-Sabots” strip in the Archives for a Comment I wanted to make on ‘FB Ringo’s Tavern’ and like a good hunter I went and tested out my Google-Fu to find it … after wasting a day acting like a Lab Rat With A Cocaine Button™ in the Archives itself … but that’s another story. ;)
So, under Relativistic Weapons I find Wikipeida entry for Relativistic Kill Vehicle so I click on the link thinking ‘Cool, probably has the math ready at hand‘.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_kill_vehicle
I click on the Wiki link and there’s the math and with a short list of RKV’s in fiction.
But here’s the best part.
In the References Section there are only TWO entries…
References
1.^ Taylor, Howard (2000). “Schlock Mercenary for Sunday, November 5, 2000″. http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20001105.html. Retrieved 2006-03-20.
2.^ Taylor, Howard (2005). “Schlock Mercenary for Sunday, August 28, 2005″. http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050828.html. Retrieved 2006-03-20.
I can’t wait for a future Military Officer/Cadet to list these in some paper they’re doing. ;)
November 17th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Please forgive me but, LOL ={:D
November 18th, 2009 at 12:34 am
If a Relativistic-Kill Vehicle punches out your unit’s middle, has it
performed a “Cee-Section”? :)
November 18th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Maybe. What was berthed there in the middle?
November 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Mr. Tayler,
If you’d like to feel culturally relevant, look no further than TvTropes.org. Schlock Mercenary fulfills 185 tropes (I counted,) and you personally are mentioned under the trope “Determinator”.
# Determinator: Howard Tayler, the author. Nothing can stop him from updating every single day. Not injuries, not software glitches, nothing. Even a transformer explosion at the server farm where the comic is hosted that took out two walls, several websites, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment did not stop Schlock Mercenary’s update schedule; he just set up a temporary site until they got the main host back up.
* It was nearly subverted on one occasion, when the comic was up several hours late. Howard apologized, and the strip was up by End of Business that day.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Also, here’s the link to your shrine: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchlockMercenary
November 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Tear Jerker Entry … yeah, Tagon gets a pass for all past and future “incidents” and gets into Heaven for that one.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Howard Tayler: I’m not sure, but whatever it was before the impact,
it’s a Bloody Mess afterward…. >;)
Eeyore3061: Which incident was that, again? Google Starscreamed.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:41 am
csadn: I don’t think RKVs leave bloody messes. They leave extremely hot, rapidly expanding messes.
And I’m pretty sure Eeyore3061 was referring to the Tear Jerker entry of the SM tvtropes page. “All hands! We just got paid! Party on the rec deck, everybody!”
November 19th, 2009 at 12:44 am
csadn: Here’s the link with a pretty good summery leading up to one of Tagon’s best moments;
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20071217.html
November 19th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I was looking at the Schlock Mercenary TVTropes page and really liked the description of Pronto and Pi.
Too bad me laughing right now sounds like an old car on a cold winter morning.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Eeyore3061: It has its charms, tho’ personally I prefer Tagon’s dealing with Xinchub at Yoming (mainly because I loathe Xinchub :) ).
Sam: RKVs leave bloody messes — they just have the decency to sterilize the bloody mess immediately thereafter. (Now if they’d just remember to also sterilize the blood scattered by shockwave, and high-velocity-fragments and -plasma…. :) )