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Switchblade Honey (Comic Book)
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Back in the early Aughts, Warren Ellis watched an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. The man who Bromanced Patrick Stewart described it as "Katharine Hepburn impersonating William Shatner". Out of sheer exasperation, he cried out, "They should get Ray Winstone as captain". The result was a July, 2003 graphic novel using said idea. Hilarity Ensues....Two Hundred Years From Today, Earth is fighting losing an interstellar war with a Jerkass Herd Mind known as the Chasta. General Ripper comes up with a desperate strategy. "We can't be the U.S. Marines anymore. Now we have to be the Viet Cong." The result is the experimental guerrilla space destroyer Switchblade Honey. He hoped to build eight more. He got the one.Meet The Crew. Captain: John Ryder - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for disobeying direct orders in the face of the enemy and assault on military property. (Command ordered him to destroy a crippled friendly vessel as a proxy suicide attack. He refused, and fired on and disabled a vessel that attempted to follow those orders in his stead.) First Officer: Susan "Switchblade" Niles - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for assault on a superior officer. (She caught her captain raping the Communications Officer. She cut his dick off, then jettisoned it into space.) Chief Engineer: Jack Rhodes - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for disobeying direct orders in the face of the enemy. (After his captain decided to abandon his engine crew on a Chasta world to save weight, he sealed all of them in the engine room and lifted off anyway.) Gunner: Aliya Jones - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for disobeying direct orders in the face of the enemy, assault on military property, and assault on military personnel. (She refused to fire on civilians, then destroyed her gunnery station with a pistol taken off a guard who was trying to make her do it. Then she shot the guard.) Electronics station: Milligan - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for disobeying direct orders in the face of the enemy and substance abuse. (He hacked an enemy vessel and opened its airlocks, killing its entire crew while sparing prisoners in its sealed hold, rather than let his captain, an admiral's son, destroy the vessel for personal glory. But he really was stoned out of his fucking mind when he did it.) Pilot: Harwood, B. - Imprisoned and awaiting execution for disobeying direct orders in the face of the enemy. (He refused to ram an enemy vessel.)They've all been fucked by the Navy. They're all pretty disgusted with the human race. Hell, they're probably only three steps from trying to kill each other.And they're pretty much the only hope we have left. | |
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Kirk Summation | |
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Kirk Summation: Ryder gets two. Why isn't this an ongoing series, again? On being a starship captain; On being a hero in a Crapsack World; | |
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On being a hero in a Crapsack World; | |
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Wave-Motion Gun | |
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Wave-Motion Gun: The Chasta are able to assemble a giant lens above the corona of a star, focusing its radiation into a planet-destroying X-Ray laser. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Basically everybody in some way; the main characters are the result of crossing Star Trek with Spider Jerusalem. | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock: The backstory for e-station helmsman Milligan is that he hacked an enemy Chasta vessel and opened all of its airlocks simultaneously, sending the crew into space and instantly killing them. He repeats the same stunt to stop the Chasta from firing a giant X-ray laser on Earth, saving the planet. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: In case the description didn't make it clear enough... | |
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Army of Thieves and Whores | |
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Army of Thieves and Whores: The crew of the Switchblade Honey are all technically prisoners, freed only as part of the military's desperate plan to send out a rogue crew of guerrillas against the Chasta. Almost all of them are surly misanthropes at the start, and by the end the sole idealist is drinking and swearing with the rest of them. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: The crew stop the Chasta from incinerating Earth with a sun-powered X-ray laser by having Milligan hack the Chasta vessels and opening the airlocks, spacing the crew — the same stunt that got him imprisoned at the beginning of the story. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The crew of the Switchblade Honey ignite the ice in an asteroid field to hurl metallic asteroids at a wing of Chasta ships. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Possibly a Historical In-Joke to the first Gulf War, where the Iraqis allegedly dropped leaflets on US soldiers which read, "Your wives are at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds." It's referenced in The Men Who Stare at Goats. | |
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Expy: John Ryder is clearly based or Ray Winstone in London Gangster mode. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Basically everybody in some way. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Basically everybody in some way; the main characters are the result of crossing Star Trek with Spider Jerusalem. | |
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Aliens Steal Cable | |
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Aliens Steal Cable: Chasta are using their knowledge about humans to telepathically torture them during the battle. The problem is that they don't have too firm a grasp on it, resulting in threats like: Possibly a Historical In-Joke to the first Gulf War, where the Iraqis allegedly dropped leaflets on US soldiers which read, "Your wives are at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds." It's referenced in The Men Who Stare at Goats. | |
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