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Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18

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"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote in
news:nt83ja$t3d$1@dont-email.me: 

> On 10/7/16 1:12 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) wrote in
>> news:oEnuB0.KBu@kithrup.com:
>>
>>> In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>>>
>>> Did we see his body?
>>>
>> Let's not forget, we've had characters dead _and buried_ who
>> came back in the past. If we had a body, it would only prove
>> he's still alive.
>>
> 
> 
>      While it might run counter to many tropes, I'm on the side
>      saying 
> Tagon's dead, dead, dead. I love Tagon, I hate the idea that
> he's dead, but sometimes you go into a situation knowing that
> death is what's coming for you, and the question is what will
> that death accomplish. If his death accomplishes his goal (and
> the heat-exchangers don't die) it'll be a good death.
> 
That wouldn't surprise me in the least for this particular comic. 
Still, it wouldn't especially surprise me if he weren't dead, either.

Which is a great compliment to Howard Taylor. Few storytellers are 
caapable of such a feat.

-- 
Terry Austin

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"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:43 -0500
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 10:45 -0700
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 10:59 -0700
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 banjo@dontspam.silent.com - 2016-10-06 19:17 +0100
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2016-10-06 11:52 -0700
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 15:43 -0500
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-06 17:29 -0500
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 20:17 -0500
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 18:54 -0700
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-10-06 19:04 -0700
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 16:33 -0500
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-06 19:40 +0000
  Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-10-07 04:40 +0000
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 22:12 -0700
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-10-07 08:14 -0400
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 09:18 -0700
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2016-10-07 22:43 -0300
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 15:01 -0500

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