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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: Schlock Mercenary, Very Short Introductions, Hans Köchler's Lockerbie trial observer mission, SM City Pampanga, Community of Democracies, Turkish Cultural Foundation, International Securities Exchange, Noua Dreapta, Dubai Internet City, Amadeo Theatre and Music Company, Armidale Dumaresq Council, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Dubai Financial Market, Pacific Islands Families Study, International Tech Park, Bangalore, Cabinet of Ivica Racan I, IShares, Mbombela Local Municipality, Niger Delta Development Commission, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Bushbuckridge Local Municipality, Gravity Park USA, Nkomazi Local Municipality, Chashma Nuclear Power Complex, SwePol, Richmond Valley Council, Bauhaus Center, Mekong-Ganga Cooperation, Kaiga Atomic Power Station, Global Village Telecom, Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, Scottish Court in the Netherlands, Don Bosco Technical Institute, Lahore, CrossRef, Paraná-Uruguaiana pipeline, The Big Chill Cafe, Patan district, Teoma, Minsk World, Lunar Explorers Society, Dorkbot, Remix Dance Project, Intelig Telecom, UNI global union, Xulon Press, National Anti-Corruption Observatory, GMA Artist Center, Taiwan TG Butterfly Garden, Lithuanian Red Cross Society, OOplala, WOUGNET, Tsim Sha Tsui East Ferry Pier, King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center, Bacatec, Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, Gregor Mendel Institute, Zach Feuer Gallery, Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. Excerpt: Schlock Mercenary is a comedic webcomic written and drawn by Howard Tayler. It follows the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting. Since its debut on June 12, 2000 the comic has updated daily, begun to support its author, and been nominated for two Hugo Awards. Over time, Tayler's work improved from, in his words, bad to "marginally less bad." Jean Elmore served as colorist for the strip from February 9, 2003 to the spring of 2004 when she developed a repetitive strain injury from her work. On March 3, 2003, the comic reached its 1001st strip. Tayler marked the milestone by "re-launching" the comic. With the relaunch, the strip was slightly reoriented for publication, organizing the comic's ongoing story into "books". Each book has a fairly self-contained story, although they are still chronological and connected. On December 2, 2005, Tayler published the comic's 2000th daily strip since the series' debut. On June 6, 2010, Schlock Mercenary marked ten years of uninterrupted daily run, a feat matched by few other webcomics. In March 2006, Tayler published Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management, the first book-based collection of Schlock Mercenary comics. This collection features stories printed from March 9, 2003 through August 23, 2003, plus five pages of new material including a foreword by John Ringo, a feature explaining how Sgt. Schlock "got turned on to plasma cannons", bonus art, the author's biography, and architectural deck plans to Tagon's third ship Serial Peacemaker. In December 2007, Tayler published Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness. It features stories from the beginning of the webcomic to October 2001, as well as the bonus story "Baggage Claim," explaining the circumstances around Schlock joining the Toughs. There are numerous pieces of fan art t...