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.

Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness

Comics & Graphic Novels

Howard Tayler

Graphic Novels

The Tayler Corporation

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. his 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!

Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars

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.

Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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.

Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between

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.

Schlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance

"Uh-oh...I think we're lost." Commander Kevyn Andreyasn invented the Teraport, so when something huge goes horribly wrong and starts interfering with every teraport in the galaxy, Kevyn, Schlock, and the rest of Tagon's Toughs are going to need powerful allies. Especially since they're on the run from deadly enemies... again. Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist is the sixth book in the epic comic space-opera Schlock Mercenary, but it is also a fine place to start reading. It features 144 glossy, full-color pages with brand new margin art, new notes, and eleven pages of bonus story, "Mad Scientist's Residence," by Dan Willis and Howard Tayler. Every strip in the book has been expertly recolored by Travis Walton, and the whole show is kicked off with a foreword by Greg Bear.

Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist

Hypernode Press

"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 indefinitely: no ship, no payroll, and no prospects. The godlike A.I. they accidentally installed at the Galactic Core isn't hiring, and has plans they're better of staying out of regardless. 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 right 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.

Schlock Mercenary: Emperor Pius Dei

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.

Schlock Mercenary: The Sharp End of the Stick

"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...

Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic

"I bet I can turn this tank into a longshoreman..." Their first job for their new employers is a glorified delivery run, and when things go predictably awry, Tagon's Toughs can honestly point at the mess they did not make and say "This was not our fault." As with any public mess, however, it only gets messier as it gets more public, and a celebrity journalist is looking to pin the blame on someone. Who better than the company of violent sociopaths charged with delivering the groceries?

Schlock Mercenary: Longshoreman of the Apocalypse

Jim Zub

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