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ISIDOR FARRING

Mr. Farring has lived the life of a classic space adventurer, getting in exciting fights and dodging countless lasers. What’s not obvious is that he has as much brain as brawn, and his actual specialty is as a science officer.

First Appearance: The Prize Page 11

Archive

Captain, I wasn't expecting you here.' 'Neither was I.'

The Prize Page 11

Wealth is too precious to be entrusted to the rich.'

The Prize Page 12

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cry of strange birds and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?'

The Prize Page 14

No you fool, we're following orders. We were told to comb the desert so we're combing it.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 1

It was his job to do his job, which was to do his job.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 4

At least we've got it stopped.' 'Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 5

A somewhat flippant title, perhaps, but not without foundation! I have conquered the diseases that brought their victims here.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 6

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 7

The door dilated.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 9

If you are worthy of your command, prove your strength and try to destroy me!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 10

Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 11

Exactly my point! Here are six thousand years of recorded history, a history that includes remarkable composers, astonishing symphonies! But what is the one song that half of them sing to their children generation after generation? You put your right hand in. You put your right hand out. You put your whole self in. And you turn yourself about. You do the hokey-pokey. You give a little shout. That's what it's all about! It doesn't mean anything! I have been studying it for seven days!

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 12

Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives... I know you understand.'

New Year39s 2014 Part 1

Attention, people of Earth! Attention, people of Earth! This is Krankor Exploration Force speaking!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 15

I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do. So let's get to work, let's lay it out, okay?'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 17

Bugs, Mr. Rico. Zillions of em!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 19

Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 24

Out here in space, no one is completely independent. We all depend on one another.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 25

Every man's got his own honor and ethics, and so long as he sticks to 'em, who's anybody else to point the finger? You may not like his ethics, but you've no right to call him unethical.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 28

I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 29

Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.'

Casinopeia Page 1

Nah, this is nothing. A little trigonometry, some minor wrist action.'

Casinopeia Page 4

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.'

Casinopeia Page 6

The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up.'

Casinopeia Page 7

Sometimes, in the dark of the night, I lie awake and wonder if different intelligences can communicate at all; or, if I've had a particularly bad day, whether the phrase 'different intelligences' has meaning at all.'

Casinopeia Page 8

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.'

Casinopeia Page 9

There is an old Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." And it is very cold in space.

Casinopeia Page 18

I didn't know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion.'

Complementary Angles

First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.' 'Why, there's no such thing.'

The Big Race Page 15

And as your mother, you will listen to me, young lady. There will be no leading of these ships and armies on a mass-murdering crusade! Or else!'

The Big Race Page 16

I figure this ship is going like, what, twenty miles per hour? Figure an hour, and that puts us twenty miles out, right?' 'Jake's a total mathematical genius. One hour at twenty miles per hour. Right away he figures out that's twenty miles.'

The Big Race Page 19

Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.'

The Big Race Page 20

Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. What are the odds?'

The Big Race Page 21

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity.'

The Big Race Page 26

Good work. Give me a moment with the human, and next timeÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ use a bigger needle.

The Big Race Page 27

So, what are you gonna try next? Cheese?

Incredible race of giants here. Race of giants. No, Central Control. No counterattack. Repeat, no counterattack. Too much for us. Too powerful. Stay away.

Big Trouble Page 1

I have a tongue. "You will be taught how to use it."

Big Trouble Page 2

Maybe there never was a real me in the first place.

Big Trouble Page 3

Thinking you know why you behave as you do gives you all sorts of excuses for extraordinary behavior.

Past The Edge Page 1

Children, your performance in the school fundraiser was pathetic. Your parents will receive phone calls instructing them to love you less.'

Past The Edge Page 4

Man is a rationalizing beast, if not a rational one.'

Past The Edge Page 5

I never get furious. As we say in fencing, "What's the point?"

Past The Edge Page 6

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better.'

Past The Edge Page 8

Soldiers don't like to lose. And that is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.'

Past The Edge Page 9

You must be so EMBARRASSED! Do me! Do me, do me!

Past The Edge Page 11

Excuse me, can you help me? I'm a spy.

Covert Operations

A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.'

Past The Edge Page 13

I can't even begin to tell you how fascinating this is. "Anthropologist fascinating, or actual fascinating?"

Past The Edge Page 15

I've always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin, and his vice president has several. This to me is not a good combination.

Now You39re A Man Pt 1

Ã¢â‚¬Å“I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Now You39re A Man Pt 4

Phone Home Kolshio Guest Comic

Soon, all of us will have special names â€” names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.

Party All The Time Part 1

Boy, do I hate being right all the time.

Party All The Time Part 2

What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!

Party All The Time Page 11

I'm Garrus Vakarian, and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel!

Hammy, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about firepower.

Combat is not a spectator sport.

It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.

The greatest treasures of all, Mister Land, are a sound mind and a full belly. I hope you remember that before stooping to pick up pennies.

We are who we choose to be, Matt. "When you figure it out, let us know. We're waitin' on ya."

Leave Bonus Page

He calls science 'the study of the Forces.' Whatever that means.

Science Sweet Science

That, uh, blew out the Heisenberg Compensator.

Observable Reality