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TALPS

A systems operator in the Vanaa Aid Corps whose primary reason for joining up was to see the galaxy. She’s young, clever, and outgoing. Plus she has a kicky “hairdo!”

First Appearance: The Seat Of Your Pants Page 5

Archive

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

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

You know, when I was a kid, food was food.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 14

First rule: never surrender your weapons. Second rule: blow the hell out of your enemies 'fore they can do it to you!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 16

Even dogs have dreams, but not you. You are just a machine.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 22

This love, what is it? How do you express it?'

Valentine39s Day 2015 Part 2

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

Planet Express is done for. What with our delivery crew missing, and the abysmal sales of Tickle Me Bender!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Coda The Vanaa

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 1

Time... you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of... becoming, what we... are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it... slice by slice.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 2

How come I never make friends like that?' 'You really need to get out more.' 'We're in another galaxy. How much more out can you get?'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 6

In the name of extreme profit, you're under arrest.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 7

Each man gets a chance to be his own kind of hero. Your time will come, and when it does, watch out. Chances are it'll be the last thing you ever expected.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 9

If you expect defeat, that is what you will get...

You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

Big Trouble Page 7

They create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift, and a terrible responsibility, one that cannot be abandoned.

For The Flan Who Has Everything Pt 6

He's just not cute since he had puberty installed.

Now You39re A Man Pt 2

He who allows the alien to live shares in the crime of its existence.

Now You39re A Man Pt 3

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Give Pease A Chance

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

French Goo Wave Jadie Guest Comic

Well, if I did dream... I would like to dream about you.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Kiss girls all you want to â€” it beats the hell out of card games.

Have you? What? What is in this glass? You've seen what's coming, huh? Okay, what's coming? You tell me.

A Little While Back

Everyone, protect this slime!