Friday, October 18, 2024
R&D Wars
The gang is back together as Torg's plan to raid Hereti-Corp and purge all their data related to Oasis is put into action. Of course, given that it's Torg's plan and considering the team he's assembled, things don't work out that simply. Hijinks ensue and giggles abound. The question is, at the end of the day, will they succeed or not?
It's on my shelf
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Friday, October 11, 2024
4U City Red
This Sluggy Freelance collection picks up directly from the previous volume. In fact, Mr. Abrams warns you on page 4 that you better have read 4U Green - 4U Blue before diving into this book. (I did reread it, as it took me a lot longer to purchase this tome than I had planned.) The first story thread picked up is Torg and his team of minions as they infiltrate Dr. Steve's lab, finding it has been taken over by Hereti-Corp. The book soon switches to the 4U City dimension as the revolution begins. Riff proves to be an unpredictable player in that drama as he tries to unravel the mystery of the city. Eventually he is returned to his home dimension, where he joins Torg and company in laying low, waiting for the opportunity to try and take down Hereti-Corp. Together the team deals with a social media game that goes horrifically wrong.
It's finally on my shelf!
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Friday, July 21, 2023
4U Green - 4U Blue
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Monday, December 12, 2022
Broken
In this Sluggy Freelance collection, Torg and Riff's search for information on Oasis puts them on a collision course with Dr. Schlock and the evil Hereti-Corp. It leads up to a significant change in the strip. (And I don't mean the introduction of Zombie Head on a Stick.)
It's on my shelf!
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
Rise of the Clutter Monster
Book 18 of Sluggy Freelance. I think this one is my least favorite to date. The main storyline is pretty much just the gang sharing quarters in an apartment with an excursion to a spirit dimension. There are plenty of interruptions: another Torg Potter parody ("The Giblets with Fiber"), Stick Figures in Space, Torg's "Gunman Stan McKurt" comics, and a variety of full page gags "from the Art Desk of Torg". (Hmmm, 'tis a very Torgy volume.) There's also a collection of Clay Yount's weekend strips. The best part, methinks, is the Years of Yarncraft story which tells of the gang's addiction to a MMORPG. It plays out with both strips within the game world and strips out in "reality". Anyway, the book has some laughs, but it definitely was not the best work Mr. Abrams has done. Still, it's worth checking out.
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Monday, November 02, 2020
Aylee
Book 17 of the Sluggy Freelance collection. The bulk of this collection deals with Torg and Aylee's jaunt in another dimension where the earth has been taken over by hordes of ghouls. There's also strips dealing with zombies on this earth, as well as developments in the evil HeretiCorp. This collection's not as laugh-out-loud-funny as some of the previous books, but it's still good stuff.
Check it out.
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Thursday, November 07, 2019
Phoenix Rising
Book 16 of Sluggy Freelance. Bun-bun returns from Timeless Space to the gang at the Kesandru House. The storyline ventures through the Land of the Shadows, a wine-tasting schmoooze-fest, and then cuts to focus on the gymnast assassin Oasis. As a bonus, the book includes filler sagas Bikini Suicide Frisbee Days and Stick Figures in Spaaaaace!.
It's on my shelf!
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
Timeless
The 15th collection of Sluggy Freelance strips is almost entirely the "Oceans Unmoving" storyline, a tale of Bun-Bun in the realm known as Timeless Space. I remember reading the original run online. It was quite a departure from the series--a story without the rest of the main characters. It wasn't exactly what I started reading the series for, but the concept of timeless space was intriguing and, hey, Pete Abrams is an amusing guy regardless of the tale he tells. In this collection, however, he tells the story straight through while moving the few filler and holiday strips to the end of the book. (And as I started laughing out loud again at the Christmas Ninjas, I realized that "Oceans Unmoving" was a departure from the series in a couple of ways.)
It's on my shelf.
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Thursday, November 01, 2018
Skullduggery
Book 14 sees Torg trying to adjust to life back in our dimension after spending the last two books fighting demons. That's a bit hard to do when the gang evicted from their house by creepy cloner geeks. Zoe stays behind to try and keep them from discovering the dormant. Hijinks and brain altering bugs ensue. The book also contains the final collection of Dimension of Pain/Grief/Hell strips, "Torg Potter and the President from Arkansas", and the beginning strips of Bun-Bun's "Oceans Unmoving" storyline.
It's on my shelf, because, you know, I gotta collect them all.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Redemption
The 13th collection of Sluggy Freelance completes the tale, started in volume 12, about Torg trapped in the "Dimension of Lame" which has been taken over by the demons from the Dimension of Pain. It's about this time in the history of the strip that long running plotlines became more prominent than laugh-out-loud shenanigans. But Redemption still offers plenty of giggles.
It's on my shelf!
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Vampires & Demons
The title pretty much says it all. Sluggy Freelance silliness is served up in two major storylines: one about an encounter with a vampire hunter and one about the invasion of an alternate dimension by the demons of the Dimension of Pain.
Check it out!
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
The Holiday Wars
In Book 11 of Sluggy Freelance, Riff moves to Alaska, Torg returns to the Hoggelrynth School of Magic, Zoë dates a human cannonball, Gwynn makes a tofurkey for Thanksgiving and Bun-Bun wages the War on Christmas. Meanwhile, in the Dimension of Pain, an angel has infiltrated and is attempting to transform it into a place of good. Can Lord Horribus prevail in the battle between good and evil?
One more collection on my shelf. Nifty!
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Dangerous Days
I've got four other books sitting around with bookmarks in them, yet for some reason I picked up this one and finished it instead of the rest. Okay, I suppose it is the shortest of the lot. That would account for a lot of it. And it's a Sluggy Freelance collection--book 9 of the series--which would account for the rest of it. In this volume Mr. Abrams finishes up the Ayleeorgnet storyline, Torg attends the Hoggelrynth School of Magic, Zoë moves back in town, Lord Horribus makes the annual attempt to capture Torg for the Dimension of Pain, and the Kittens return. Be afraid.
This is where I started reading the webcomic, so I've just got to keep it on my shelf.
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Little Evils
First read on 3 January 2008.
on my shelf
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Monday, May 12, 2014
When Holidays Attack
In the third Sluggy Freelance collection we're treated to the first Hallowe'en sortie against Torg by the denizens of the Dimension of Pain, a flashback to Torg and Riff's junior high days, an ancient Egyptian tomb, an attempted murder from the future, and an attempt by the demon K'z'k (no vowels) to take over the world. Oh, and the holidays attack.
How can all this niftyness fit on my shelf?
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Worship the Comic
The second Sluggy Freelance collection is slightly less brilliant than the first, but it made me giggle just the same. In this book Torg first encounters the Dimension of Pain, Bun Bun takes off with Riff's robot and the gang encounter the Lysinda circle of vampires.
On my shelf!
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Friday, May 09, 2014
Is It Not Nifty?
This is the first collection of strips from the webcomic Sluggy Freelance. The art is somewhat crude. The storylines are simplistic. Some of the gags are dated. But I continue to laugh out loud.
'Tis forever on my shelf.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
A Very Big Bang
I've been very remiss in completing my Sluggy Freelance collection. This is only the fourth book I've purchased. (I know, I know. I can read it online, but that's not the same as giggling whilst sprawled on the couch.) This is seventh collection in the series, collecting strips from 2002. In it Riff saves Torg from ending it all, the Dimensional Flux Agitator sends the boys to a puny universe, Zöe returns to Nebraska, the gang move to a new (to them) house and Torg must once again evade a Hallowe'en demon seeking to drag him to the Dimension of Pain.
On-on-on my shelf!
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Little Evils
Little Evils (I keep wanting to type "Little Elvis", because that what the title looks like) is "Megatome 02" of the Sluggy Freelance collections. It contains the contents of what were previously volumes 4, 5 and 6 of the collected Sluggy Freelance, which, of course, is the most nifty of all the web comics that are out there. Anyway, Little Evils doesn't contain any Elvis, just the spirit of Ayn Rand, possessing a talking ferret. There are also vengeful demons, invading aliens, a Caribbean vacation, demonic kittens, a lovestruck assassin, black-ops elves and puns. But don't let that scare you away. Little Evils makes for big laughs.
Woh-pah! It's on my shelf!
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