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http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/"Romantically Apocalyptic"
Earth used to be a cyberpunk-dystopia ruled tyrannically by the megacorporation "The Good Directorate". Until one day someone spilled coffee into the harddrive of the AI "ANNET" that ruled Earth in the name of The Good Directorate. The feedback killed most of humanity, because everybody had a neural plug in their brain to better surf the internet.
Now Earth is a barren wasteland trapped in a global ice-age. You follow "Charles Snippy" (a former tour-guide), "Zee Captain" (who is best described as an eternally happy, non-violent, eerily capable psychopath) and the captain's coffee-mug (who strangely never runs out of hot coffee...) on their journey through the wasteland and you meet killer-robots, monsters, mutated animals, cannibals... and worse. All the while trying to find a place where you can survive and trying to find out what happened.
And all the while the decisive battle for the future of Earth and mankind is fought in a background-story by other... characters.
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http://www.viruscomix.com/estar.html
"Captain Estar goes to Heaven"
You follow Estar, a bounty-hunter in space. Due to a trauma in her past she's a drug-abuser, violent, suicidal and bitter. One day she gets a job from a corporation to find a former employee who stole a space-ship and make an example out of him. She follows the leads and hears that this guy claims that he found heaven. No, literally heaven. It's on a planet. And he's willing to sell you the coordinates...
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http://evil-inc.com/
"Evil Inc."
He's "Captain Heroic", a super-hero a little bit like Superman. She's "Miss Match", a fire-based super-villain. They had a one-night-stand, she got pregnant and now they are happily and secretly married, with a kid.
He works at a super-hero team called the "Justice League". She works at "Evil Inc.", a company that meets all a super-villain's needs for weapons, supplies and henchmen-for-hire.
One storyline was that the Justice League secretly bought stock in Evil Inc. to gain control over the company. Except that Evil Inc. was having a bad season shortly therafter and suddenly the Justice League was at the risk of going broke. If only they could get more super-villains to buy at Evil Inc. ...
FSogol
(46,525 posts)Anything by Kris Straub or John Allison would rock.
DetlefK
(16,456 posts)There is one particular scene. It gave me goose-bumps. I saved the pic. And every single time I look at it it gives me goose-bumps again.
The room is dark. Only Vanderbeam and a computer-terminal.
"I heard Holiday is done upgrading our Starslip-Drive?"
"Affirmative."
"With your new modifications, how long would it take to calculate a route back into an earlier universe?"
"Define: earlier."
"One where Jovia is still alive."
"Calculating... Approximately 40,000 years."
"... Begin."
He loves her. And when the computer has his calculation finished in 40,000 years... He will be there. He will find a way. He WILL find a way.
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I think Starslip Crisis is too epic, the story too long and too mind-blowing. Witty comedy alternates with mankind facing a time-travelling Darth Vader and his Death-Star.
Some of the adventures would make good material, but the whole story-arc is simply too epic.