577 | AWOL

577 | AWOL

April 8, 2012 | 9:39 pm, by Pascalle Lepas

And now you see why reports are so important!

When you fly around the universe on a space ship, it is important to check in with your superior officers, so that they know what you’re up to. Big whoopsie, there, Reona.

How much trouble do you think she’s in?

Also, I’ve put some drawings and things on my tumblr over the past couple of weeks, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing.



Comments

  • AWOL is such a harsh phrase. Perhaps ‘distracted’ would be less antagonistic? Besides, being a rebel fighter is all volunteer work, anyway! What’re they gonna do, fire her?

  • forcible tulips

    heh, I’d almost forgotten that she was technically involved in a rebellion at this point. Or that there was a rebellion. Didn’t forget that Naveed was attractive though. 

  • Anonymous

    How big is the rebellion right now anyways? There’s got to be more than Excelsior right?

  • Anonymous

    reports?….reports!!?…..WE DONT NEED NO STINKIN REPORTS !!

    ahh to be documentatively rebellious, young, cute and missing one arm in the face of our superiors.

  • yes, we just havent seen alot of them… yet.

  • Trashbandit

    Maybe, ‘You’ve nearly been killed how many times?’ would have been a better response from Justin! To which Reona could reply: ‘Well I escaped Naveed and Gunner about 4.5 bazillion times, while you allowed yourself to rot in jail. Bazinga!’

  • Vanillagregory

    lul. she’s got a procrastination sensation. dat feel.  

  • Anonymous

    “AWOL ” is such a harsh term; we prefer “unmotivated”.

  • Malnexus

    she should just drop the rebelion and become a vigilante of sorts with those pirates.

  • Negatron

    That is one bureaucratic rebellion.

  • Safyrejet
  • Kiren201

    I still don’t see any rebelion going around. They just fly around in sentiel starship doing random stuff… Like getting their captain violated by female alien, then have him kidnaped…. Just random stuff. XD
    Who has time for reports anyway! XD

  • I think anyone who lets a Stickel attach a device to their arm counts as AWOL :D

  • J: “So, about your homework…”
    R: “The stickel ate it!”
    K: “I DID NOT!”

  • d

    This digression 100% boring.

  • Kiren201

    And now, he will make her write it! POOR GIRL!!! O.o

  • Anonymous

    just wait for the lingerie pillow fight in a few panels.
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    i lied, there is no lingerie pillow fight or regular pillow fight that i am aware of (hint,hint), but you know that sudden feeling of “great expectations” that you just felt a moment ago…yea, thats what you should be expressing instead in an attempt to get more surprise updates. (hint, hint)

  • No one ever wants to let us set up a story arc! They just want explosions and fight scenes to happen for no reason.

    Next webcomic I do:

    Explosions for No Reason: The Webcomic
    This Time Things Happen for No Reason

  •  Cooourt Maaaaartiaaaaal

  • Gillsing

    As far as I understand it, Reona and her crew are merely stationed on Excelsior. So if she’s not going to actually work for the rebellion they might want to have the ship back. But I guess you’re right: What’re they gonna do, send a repo man?

  • Ramification

    It’s a rebellion for crying out loud!
    Reports? AWOL? Seriously? WTF!
    Girl’s lucky to even be in one pie…err..alive? (quick, someone check for pulse and prepare the zombie-scanner!)

  • Ramification

    LOL. Good one!

    Next, the Stickle blames the bulk eraser falling on the tapes.

  • Ramification

    Already been done. Was called UnderPower. Was rather great actually. Something of a combine of all our existential angst + drug-induced hallucinations and massive amounts of violent self-indulgence and venting.
    But artist was a self-loathing no-income poor guy and then the host server crashed and lost years of strips and he just threw hands up and went off the grid since.
    Rather sad story.

  • Kiren201

     And imagine how horrible would some things look in those report! You don’t want people to know that your amnesic captain was kidnapped by his old-times buddy, who is, by the way, ploting world (ehm, universe) domination…

  • Kiren201

     Well, considering that it seems like it was Zap who made ship… Zap is owner and captain, no buts. Realize how cool is it to be captain of sentient ship! Zap’s hers daddy!
    …does that make Gunner mummy?

  • Kiren201

     Anyone noticed that it never blew up!

  • I know! Such advanced technologies that could defy laws of physics like that! Oh wait, it was a katana. Auto-defies anything physics related :D

  • Anonymous

    Court martial? For serious? *intrigued* I do think it makes sense that there might be ramifications for Reona going off of the grid with what I imagine is one of the Rebellion’s most advanced ships…Is Excelsior pretty much considered a common resource of the Rebels?

  •  Yes, Excelsior was found on a deserted planet and donated to the resistance (this backstory is part of this arc, so you’ll be reading this in canon soon). Efrem was granted the ship as captain because she reacted to him.

  • Violet Black

    That actually sounds pretty cool! Assuming you aren’t serious about doing this yourself, and I eventually become a productive person, remind me to give it a shot someday!

    *ASPLODES*

  • Speedy Marsh

    Just when the Aquarians are finishing their new Ebony Waterfowl temple…
    *BOOM*

  • Speedy Marsh

    I wrote all my reports, double spaced, in triplicate… but Grontar ate them…

    I wrote all my reports… but we had a toilet paper shortage…

    Three women on the ship… but no… oh, never mind…

    I dictated all my reports to Robot… but he erased them to make room for his Barry White collection. ‘Cause he and Excelsior…

    I wrote all my reports on my sticklePad… but it blew up in my hand…

    I was so ticked at Efrem, that every time I tried to write a report, my arm cannon engaged… and blew away my notebook, and pen, and desk, and bunk, and…

    (Not gonna play the cripple card… not gonna play the cripple card…)

    My robotic hand had this bug… whenever I made a pen holding motion, my fingers started vibrating like crazy… (note to self, ask Kasey if that was an undocumented feature… and make sure she replicates it in the new hand…)

    I was rebelling… against homework…

  • John Smith

    “I’ve been busy!”

  • She is rebelling against writing reports.

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