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	Sluggy Freelance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sluggy Freelance is a popular, long-running webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams.
		The characters in Sluggy Freelance are a varied and diverse sort.
		A section of original Sluggy comics set in the alternate future world of the novels appears in the end of Hell's Faire, and a sampler of Sluggy storylines is included on the CD-ROM bound into this book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sluggy_Freelance (5483 words)

	Torgo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Torgo is one of the main characters in the 1966 movie "Manos" The Hands of Fate, played by John Reynolds.
		Tolkien's character Gandalf the White) and escorted TV's Frank to "second banana heaven," where henchmen could live in peace without fear of reprisal from their vengeful bosses.
		Torg, one of the main characters in Sluggy Freelance, is named in honor of Torgo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torgo (718 words)

	The Official Time-Waster's Guide v3.0
		While Sluggy is still episodic (meaning it doesn’t have a single overarching conflict that spans the entire comic) it has begun to contain truly involved stories, with character progression, foreshadowing, and complex plotting.
		Many of the laughs are character driven, and in the longer Sunday strips there will often be several ‘punchlines.’ The continuous air of humor lends a farcical nature to the plot, keeping it light despite often involved drama.
		Sluggy is updated daily, with rarely missed days (though they do exist.) The archive is incredible--5 years of solid comics with a variety of topics and humor.
	www.timewastersguide.com /view.php?id=219 (1248 words)

	books about: sluggy (freelance holidays worship) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In any case, though, Sluggy Freelance is a beautifully drawn, creatively worded, hilarious tour de force that is sure to provide hours and hours of great entertainment.
		For those of you unfamiliar with the comic, Sluggy Freelance is a webcomic started by Pete Abrams a...
		Sluggy Freelance is without a doubt the best comic strip on the web.
	www.very-clever.com /books/sluggy (387 words)

	Sluggy Freelance - Comixpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sluggy Freelance is one of the longest running, best-known and most popular webcomics, with a new comic released daily since August 25, 1997, except for 8 days in August 2001 and filler art on many other occasions.
		Written and drawn by Pete Abrams, Sluggy Freelance set many of the standards for web comics.
		Sometimes an inquisitionist will interrogate a witness, and this character will narrate a sequence of obscure events with their explanations.
	www.comixpedia.org /index.php/Sluggy_Freelance (1032 words)

	Tone Meshing in Practice
		For Tone Meshing, the comic that does this well is Sluggy Freelance [G], and the comic that does it poorly is General Protection Fault [G].
		Sluggy Freelance works because most of the time you never know whether it's going to be serious or funny on any given day.
		Sluggy Freelance does tone meshing right, because it makes the duality integral to the strip, and in doing so creates a more complex whole.
	www.stanford.edu /~jasonptm/Paper/meshPrac.htm (381 words)

	BOOK REVIEW: Sluggy Freelance -- There’s more than porn on the ’net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A few additional characters, such as their neighbor ZoË, who plays the strip’s straight woman, and Dr. Lorna, a parody of Dr. Laura, the noted acerbic talk show psychologist, are introduced as the strip progress.
		In addition, Sluggy Freelance seems to be targeted to the typical Internet user and has a tilt that the standard syndicated comic strips don’t.
		Nevertheless, Sluggy Freelance sits comfortably in the top tier of comic strips out there today, and Is it Not Nifty deserves to be on every MIT student’s shelf.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N14/sluggy_freelanc.14a.html (397 words)

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		The main characters are Sam, a bachelor trying to make ends meet in this dog eat dog world, and Fuzzy, a psychotic teddy bear with whom Sam has a somewhat masochistic friendship with.
		White Ninja is a sneaker of a comic, it doesn't look incredibly well done, but the creator has a way of delivering in a solid punchline the reader never sees coming.
		One of my favorites, "The title characters are Cat, a giant anthropomorphic cat given to zany schemes, and Girl, a cute and cynical girl with a philosophical bent and a penchant for postmodernism.
	home.comcast.net /~geldonyetich/comics.html (423 words)

	· S · L · U · G · G · Y · (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sluggy Freelance is a very funny webcomic published daily (most of the time) by Pete Abrams.
		This fanlisting is a work of fandom and is not associated with Sluggy Freelance, Pete Abrams, or The Sluggite Zone.
		Sluggy Freelance is copyright 1997-2002 to Peter Abrams.
	www.galacticmuffin.net /sluggy/main.php (247 words)

	Sluggy Freelance: The Rp - RPG Chat
		Sluggy Freelance, for all those people who live in boxes, is a rich universe, filled with drama, adventure and most of all comedy.
		People can be anything from demons, vampires to mad scientists and freelance bums, as long as their characters are funny, I would prefer it however if people played the characters from the comics.
		NOTE, anyone who doesn't play a character from the comic needs to pm his to me and anyone who is unfamiliar with the comic needs to pm me either way.
	forums.rpgchat.com /showthread.php?t=42634 (589 words)

	Todd's Webcomic Rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The cast of characters is drawn in an inviting and engaging manner, and their personalities are made immediately obvious.
		The female characters in Sluggy Freelance suffer stomach-churning levels of degrading events, displaying an undercurrent of subtle antagonism towards women.
		The cast of characters is unwieldy, the art is mediocre, and the characterization is paper-thin.
	www.angelfire.com /home/derscheid/webcomics.html (1161 words)

	Invisible City Productions: Schlock Attack
		Reading Sluggy led me to Keenspot and Keenspace (now known as Comic Genesis), which eventually led me to Howard Tayler’s online comic, Schlock Mercenary (which is now a part of the Blank Label Comics collective).
		He gives a nice discussion of hyperfast projectiles when near-c-speed sabots are lobbed at the heroes, discusses the physics of falling in reduced gravity, and alternate propulsion systems.
		Here’s a variant: Try pitting characters from Schlock Mercenary against characters from Sluggy Freelance and see which strip does better.
	www.invisible-city.com /play/110/schlock-attack (1061 words)

	ooBdoo
		She and Sven fall in love and live "happily ever after" on Pollux (a sharp contrast from the original ending of Go Lion, in which Sven's character dies).
		In the case of special characters, they sometimes ejected/were rescued, and taken to treat their injuries, even though they died in the Japanese series.
		In the webcomic Sluggy Freelance, main characters Torg and Riff are accidentally teleported to a parallel universe, where they encounter a team of superheroes similar to Gatchaman, who form a Voltron-like robot named Gofotron.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Voltron (6314 words)

	Net4TV Voice: Sluggy Freelance: Kiki's Virus!
		Sluggy and all his friends have passed out and now even Pete and his replacement are sick!
		The best place for new viewers to get familiar with the characters of the comic.
		The quickest way to catch up on Sluggy is to have the first 8 months dropped off at your doorstep on dead trees!
	www.net4tv.com /voice/Story.cfm?storyID=1851 (183 words)

	AstroNerdBoy's Comic Strips
		The only exception being Doctor Laura, who is a public character and I can parody her up and down as long as I want.
		Of course characters do tend to go off in their own directions sometimes out of my control and I try to curb them back towards it (the ending).
		But a lot of times a character will change what the direction of the story is and, a lot of times it will change the relationships (of the characters) which will affect future planned stories.
	www.astronerdboy.com /comic-strips/kiosks/advice/Pete_Abrams-p1.html (2884 words)

	Plot Motivation
		Usually dramatic plots are a consummation of some element of the strip that came before, perhaps two characters finally admitting their love for one another, or an old enemy who vowed to return finally coming back.
		The strip is already changing a lot, from completely humorous to a mixture of comedy and drama, and if a plot with no motivation in the strip's humorous past is added, the effect is jarring and the storyline seems artificial and forced.
		The example comics for plot motivation are Sluggy Freelance [G] and Roomies [G].
	www.stanford.edu /~jasonptm/Paper/plotm.htm (267 words)

	brickfrenzy.com - Oasis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I've enjoyed reading the online comic Sluggy Freelance for quite a while now, and after they did a "Lego Week", I decided I wanted to immortalize one of the characters in a mosaic.
		I picked Oasis, one of the minor characters that has a very big part in a recent storyline.
		The final mosaic has a 1x1 fl border, and is filled with an abmormally large quantity of orange and brown bricks, and dark grey 1x1's.
	www.brickfrenzy.com /?m=oasis (208 words)

	Piecemeal's Sluggy Freelance Fansite - Cast of Characters
		Her first day on Sluggy, she got a sprained wrist, beaten up by Bun-bun, and trampled twice.
		She was in the way of Aylee's cocoon when it exploded, and got covered in lots of gross slime.
		Torg is a freelance web designer, which gives him lots of freedom to go out on funky adventures to other dimensions without risk of losing his job.
	members.tripod.com /~piecemeal/chars.html (694 words)

	List of web sites about S: Sluggy Freelance
		GURPS Sluggy Freelance - Fear the Bunny - Generic Universal Roleplaying System statistics and modules based on the comic strip.
		Sluggy Freelance Index - A comprehensive index to comic strips from Sluggy Freelance.
		The Tech: Sluggy Freelance - There's more than porn on the 'net - A review of the collection "Sluggy Freelance: Is it not Nifty?" from the MIT online newspaper.
	www.kub.it /dir/2588 (357 words)

	Back of the Envelope - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		(For those who played the game, the character was Sharwyn, the bard, and the piece of dialogue was a description of a couple of quests, including one for her mother's cure.
		In this case, since it was an RPG, the dialogue was more complicated, with the choices available depending on the player character's attributes (certain options were only available to smarter player characters, for example).
		Sluggy Freelance -- The evil magic sword's fully charged again and Torg is killing demons left and right, and looking very cool while doing it, with a little help from the magic-wielding Alt-Gwynn.
	www.donaldscrankshaw.com /archives/archive_2004_07_00.shtml (3852 words)

	Sluggy Freelance Character Kills
		Some characters were involved in wars or have more kills than is explicitly documented in Sluggy (e.g.
		Also, some characters have a tendency to be killed more than once, owing to the fact that they are resurrected, zombified, etc. This list is as accurate as possible, but if I have made any mistakes, please email me at
		All characters and images are copyright Pete Abrams and Sluggy Freelance.
	www2.gvsu.edu /~loulab/sluggy.html (521 words)

	Amazon.com: Sluggy Freelance: Is It Not Nifty? (Book 1): Books: Peter Abrams,Pete Abrams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sluggy is entertaining -- the plots are really in-depth and easy to get into, and...
		Ahhh, Sluggy!...This is the first book in the Sluggy universe, where demons are summoned for beer, a mini-lop carrys a switchblade and a glock and your neighbours travel to other dimensions to bring aliens back with them, and well, let me check my notes.
		Sluggy Freelance is compelling, with the neverending storyline that makes you rave more.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966067657?v=glance (918 words)

	Amazon.com: Sluggy Freelance: Yippy Skippy, the Evil! (Book 5): Books: Peter Abrams,Pete Abrams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For those of you unfamiliar with the comic, Sluggy Freelance is a webcomic started by Pete Abrams a few years ago.
		Since its debut, Sluggy Freelance has assimilated thousands and thousands of daily readers and has won numerous awards, both for popularity and content.
		Sluggy Freelance: The Bug, The Witch, and the Robot (Book 6) by Pete Abrams (Price: $93.50)
	www.amazon.com /Sluggy-Freelance-Yippy-Skippy-Book/dp/1929462239 (523 words)

	Nothing to See Here: Frequently Asked Questions
		Most good webcomic artists/writers take the time to figure out their premise and come up with character designs before they even draw a single panel.
		Some characters don't quite look the same as they used to.
		Aidan and Irene, primarily, had to be changed because they looked too much like certain Sluggy Freelance characters.
	www.weirdweb.net /comic/faq.html (1136 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week
		Hence Sluggy Freelance, an unabashedly geeky adventure that's long been one of the best of the growing crop of online comic strips.
		But Sluggy Freelance is way too much fun for the increasingly stodgy mainstream newspaper comics pages.
		The Guide lets readers access strips by the day or by the week, so it's easy to catch up on all the complex backstory, which is necessary to really appreciate the later strips' humor and to feed the addiction that often hits newcomers after their first taste of Abrams' twisted, fan-friendly wit.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue195/site.html (938 words)

	Piecemeal's Sluggy Freelance Fansite - Welcome!
		Sluggy Freelance is a non-syndicated online comic by Pete Abrams.
		It has stellar artwork and great jokes, and a large cast of characters including an alien from another dimension and a talking ferret!
		If you've never heard of Sluggy before, I recommend you start at the Events section.
	members.tripod.com /~piecemeal (126 words)

	Collector Times Online - Alternate Views - May 2002
		Updated daily, with huge color Sundays, Sluggy is a wacky comic with original stories, spoofs, and an interesting cast of characters.
		It used to be a funny little geek comic, but it’s currently on a year-long over-arcing storyline that has far too much drama in it for me. I’m to the point of dropping it, but the archives may be worth checking out if you like geek jokes.
		The story is entertaining, the characters make me laugh, and Ian J’s art has evolved nicely.
	www.collectortimes.com /2002_05/av_1.html (829 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Interview with the creator about the origins of Sluggy Freelance, his life, the characters and stories.
		Fan Site for the online comic strip Sluggy Freelance, with a set of character profiles, a list of events in the strip and a vote for favorite character.
		A review of the collection "Sluggy Freelance: Is it not Nifty?" from the MIT online newspaper.
	portal.opera.com /web/?cat=2588 (336 words)

	Absurd Notions: Interpretations
		Three cranky characters in a conflict caused by coffee.
		Jay and Isaac wax nostalgic at a safe distance from the characters of College Roomies From Hell.
		Images by others and the characters of others are otherwise copyrighted as noted.
	www.absurdnotions.org /byof.html (179 words)

	The Sluggite Zone :: View topic - Sluggy Freelance RPG--and Dragon*Con
		I am pleased to announce the existence of the Official Sluggy Freelance Roleplaying Game, written by the illustrious R. Brent Palmer (that's me), with much consulting from the magnanimous Pete Abrams (not me).
		To register, go to http://gaming.dragoncon.net/event_search.php, click on the menu that says "Game System," scroll to "Sluggy Freelance (RPG)," and click the button that says "Search." No matter what it says, this game does NOT require special or on-site registration; go ahead and register.
		I'll be providing pregenned characters, but I'll also be around half an hour early for each session to help anyone who wants to make their own.
	www.sluggy.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=5495 (1311 words)

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