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Tranquility Base (Webcomic) |
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TranquilityBase |
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Tranquility Base is a twice-weekly science-fiction parody LEGO Photo Comic with geeky overtones, and also a bit of pop-culture, literature and whatever else takes the author's fancy. Tends to be one-shot jokes and short-arcs - the fourth wall is optional. The comic is very British in flavour.Starting with the Attack of the Blips storyline (a loose parody/homage of Battlestar Galactica), story arcs have got longer with greater continuity, and although the Blip story was "resolved" by the end of Volume III (Dec. 2010), its effects are still being felt into Volume IV and the reset button has been left alone.The comic was first published in August 2007 and ran for approximately 5 years; however, following several months of inactivity, it officially ended in April 2015.Tranquility Base is part of the Brick Comic Network. |
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Dropped link to BattlestarGalactica2003: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to DoctorWho: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to LegoSpaceTheComic: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to TheMafia: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Creator's Pet |
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Creator's Pet: Invoked. A trio of them, calling themselves The Orphan Posse (one is named Mary Susan). |
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Those Two Guys |
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Those Two Guys: The TV geeks. |
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Cute Kitten |
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Cute Kitten: Slog's cat Fluffy plus the kittens he fathered! |
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Badass Bookworm |
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Bad Ass Bookworm: Chief Engineer Houston Texas. especially when he successfully disables the Blip Central Control Station while seriously wounded and losing a lot of blood, taking him into Determinator territory. |
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The Omniscient Council of Vagueness |
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The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Beings of Interminable Vagueness from the Indescribable Place. |
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Hollywood Nerd |
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Hollywood Nerd: Felicia Featherstonhaugh, the computer technician. |
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KickTheDog |
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Kick the Dog / Moral Event Horizon: The Blips firing on the Sunshine Orphanage ship. |
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Funetik Aksent |
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Funetik Aksent: Squidman puts the "fun" in Funetik Aksent! |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension |
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UST: Between Hudson and Slog. |
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Flashback |
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Flashback: The author seems very fond of this device, and various types of flashback appear. |
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The Dragon |
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The Dragon: Mister B.D. is this for the Contralto Family. |
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Reassigned to Antarctica |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Implied to be the reason Slog was promoted to Captain of Tranquility Base. |
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Bavarian Fire Drill |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Two, at the same time... in the same place... on the same people. |
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Wild Mass Guessing |
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Wild Mass Guessing / Epileptic Trees: Mentioned by the author after a new character mysteriously turns up to rescue another character. |
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Meadow Run |
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Meadow Run: With C3PO and R2D2 of all people, uh, droids. Also an example of a Slash Robo Ship. |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors: A surreal version during the Z-Ships arc. |
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BBC Quarry |
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BBC Quarry / Kirk's Rock: Used frequently and lampshaded. |
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Timey-Wimey Ball |
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Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey: And then some. |
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The Informant |
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The Informant: DCI Semaphore wants Squidman to do this on the Contralto family. |
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Overly Long Gag |
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Overly Long Gag: a game of Rock/Paper/Scissors. |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Captain Slog in his Moment of Awesome. |
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Translator Microbes |
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Translator Microbes: Actually Universal Translator Nanodes - nanobots that do Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Some of the fridge logic that goes along with their use is discussed and hand-waved. |
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Big "NO!" |
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Big "NO!": Used several times. |
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Shout-Out |
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comment |
Shout-Out: To other brick comics, including Lego Space The Comic, Legostar Galactica, Irregular Webcomic! and Reasonably Clever's Brick House. To many, many sci-fi shows, but Doctor Who, Firefly, the Terminator franchise, Star Trek and Star Wars get the most. Volume III was one long Battlestar Galactica shout-fest. Volume IV has a very obvious shout-out to 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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Retirony |
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comment |
Retirony: Lampshaded and parodied. |
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Cool Old Lady |
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Cool Old Lady: Mrs. Squidman (Squidman's mum) looks like she's shaping up to be this, her second and third appearances in comic have her surfing and water-skiing respectively. And now she's defeated a would-be hostage taker, having revealed that she was a Martial Arts champion in her youth. |
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Big Damn Heroes |
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Big Damn Heroes: The Viper fleet. Complete with Shout-Out to Firefly! |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Robotic characters tend to suffer from it. |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Implied to be the source of quite a lot of Squidman's business. |
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