Sluggy Freelance
by Pete Abrams
http://www.sluggy.com/
rating: Gosh-a-rooty!
I spent a great deal of Saturday afternoon reading the almost two years' worth of daily Sluggy Freelance comic strips on Pete Abrams' web-site, and although I laughed my ass off, I still have no idea why it's called Sluggy Freelance. Perhaps I should read the FAQ.
Q: What does the title Sluggy Freelance mean?
A: Something cool and mysterious! Not telling.
- The Sluggy Freelance FAQ
Well, there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth.
Anyway, Sluggy Freelance is an insanely funny daily online-only comic strip that's a combination parody of popular science fiction (Star Trek, Aliens, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files, and so forth) and soap opera. The major cast consists of Torg, a freelance web-designer, Riff, his buddy with no visible means of support but a penchant for demonology and mad science, Torg's "pet" lop-eared rabbit Bun-Bun, complete with switchblade and major attitude problem, Zoë, the girl next door, Kiki the ferret, Aylee the alien, and a cast of thousands. Don't worry about keeping track of the extras, though: as in the fiction that it parodies, red-shirts don't last long in Sluggy Freelance. Particularly not tele-marketers.
Because it's a strip with strong continuity, the author recommends starting from the beginning, when Satan infects Riff's computer. But if you end up blowing off the rest of your day to catch up, don't say I didn't warn you.