Web Comics Recommends - The Saga Begins

[robkelk]

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http://freefall.purrsia.com/]Freefall A hideous alien with inhuman morality, a genetically engineered predator released from the lab by a mad scientist and a badly programed robot are all that stand between a colony world and a robot war triggered by a corrupt businessman. Usually light humour.

Recently finished marathoning this one (it's a long-runner). Plenty of subtle references in this - maybe more than the blatant references.

A few strips that can stand on their own, from more than a decade ago:










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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012