Freefall

Copyright (c) 2007 Mark Stanley.

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DOGGY! Here's a comic that's loads of fun - it's family-friendly, it's furry, and it's almost entirely non-offensive. (That is, unless you don't like the occasional essay on technology and psychology.) Freefall is based on "hard" science fiction (no transformers or warps or stuff), and it has one of the slowest plots of any online comic…but what it lacks in action (and there's plenty of that), it makes up for in sheer fun.

The storyline revolves around Florence Ambrose, a hard-working and honest "Bowman's Wolf" who finds herself contracted to work for Sam Starfall…a no-good, two-timing alien con artist who still somehow manages to be lovable and friendly, even as we see him committing every (non-violent) crime in the book. Florence's efforts to repair the good ship Savage Chicken and get it underway, while keeping her sanity amid Sam's antics, make for one of the most enjoyable trips into the future you're likely to see.

And we can't forget Helix. ("Oh boy!" ) Lovable Helix the robot, whose sole purpose in life is to pick up heavy things, move them, and put them down. Don't ask why that means he believes in vampires.

Strips come out every Monday Wednesday, and Friday; in addition there's also a delightfully silly message board that takes a light-hearted "critical" look at everything happening in the story. The message board can be more addictive than the strip itself.