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'''''Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire''''' is a science-fiction/action/comedy comics series by [[Phil Foglio]], featuring the adventures of private detective/bodyguard-for-hire Buck Godot, operating out of the Lawless planet of New Hong Kong.
The supporting cast include Al, the manager of Buck's favourite bar (who looks like a [[Little Green Men|short green]] cartoony version of the critter from ''[[Alien (
The series started as a string of short pieces in various anthology comics, some of which were collected in the first ''Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire'' collection. In these stories, Buck protects a woman pursued by fanatical sun-priests, finds a lost heir despite the hindrance of being followed around by a freelance conscience, defends a cargo ship from space pirate attack, and attempts to learn the secret of teleportation from an enigmatic alien (with the fate of worlds hanging in the balance).
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There's also a one-off graphic novel, ''PSmIth''. An attempted ongoing comic book folded, due to scheduling and other problems, after a single story arc; but that story arc, ''The Gallimaufry'', is the crowning achievement of the series, the added length allowing new levels of depth and complexity in plot and worldbuilding.
Following the success of ''[[
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=== ''Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire'' provides examples of: ===
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* [[Anything That Moves]]
** Louisa Dem Five
** And yet her employee Sizzlin' Sue manages to make her look like a nun. Especially when she's off her meds and drags [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]
** The fourteen Accepted Signs of Divinity, as listed [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080318 here], include: "call down the lightning, corrupt the innocent, eat the moon, answer the phone before it rings".
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The board of X-Tel.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Hyraxx D'Mofiti
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Data Crystal]]: Info Points.
* [[Deadly Euphemism]]: Don't accept an invitation to a "New Hong Kong wake".
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* [[Drunken Master]]: [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070116 Buck in the early strips]. Later ignored.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: The conclusion of the {{spoiler|Gallimaufry}} storyline.
* [[Due to
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]: ''The Herodotus Complex'', a history of Earth's involvement in galactic affairs; a relevant extract appears at the beginning of each book and each issue of the comic
* [[Energy Weapon]]: Starting with zap-guns and working up from there.
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* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20081220 Louisa's approach to abnormal hormone levels.]
* [[God Guise]]: Many of the religions that surround the Winslow. He MAY be actually Divine (immortal, indestructible, and showing signs of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]), it is just that everyone thinks he is for the wrong reasons.
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Well, half-dressed cartoon aliens.
* [[Heavyworlder]]: Buck and the other Hoffmannites -- suprisingly, given the rest of the comic is actually fairly high into the "Hard" scale of sci-fi, they're the fantastical "big and portly" types, rather then the scientifically accurate dwarf (i.e. short, squat, and lean) types. (This may be related to the fact that they didn't evolve, but were engineered -- by a group of genetic engineers whose other projects included a race of centaurs.)
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: Why {{spoiler|Par ultimately decides Godot ''and the Prime Mover'' have to die.}}
* [[Hive Mind]]: {{spoiler|Psmith}}
* [[Hooker
* [[Humans Are Special]]
** Parodied. Lots of species think we're [[Cloudcuckoolander|entertainingly crazy]], at best. Mmmm, [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080103 popsicles.]
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* [[Interfaith Smoothie]]: The Church of Slag-Blah who are "militant agnostics" who celebrate a different religion's holy day every day.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Subverted by Buck/Louisa (Hoffmanites find humans underdeveloped and also "a wee bit... delicate") and Buck/Tal (since she's a reptilean alien, as Buck points out, even if he were inclined to perv he wouldn't know what to look at. {{spoiler|Turns out he's lying}}.)
* [[Jerk
* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]
* [[Knight Templar]]: Security Chief Parahexavoctal is not above opening entire embassies to space to keep order. {{spoiler|And that's only the beginning of the lengths he'll go to.}}
* [[Love Is in
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Winslow, so very much -- he could have been an inert lump of [[Made of Indestructium|indestructium]] for all the difference it would have made to the plot. Given a great big [[Lampshade Hanging]], with much discussion of the fact that although everybody knows he's very important, there's no general agreement on exactly ''why''.
* [[Mass Teleportation]]: In one story, Buck has to gain the trust of a mysterious alien which has the mass teleportation technology needed to evacuate all the people off a planet that's about to be wiped out by a supernova. {{spoiler|When he finally manages to explain the situation, the alien casually suggests that it would be just as easy to teleport the entire planet.}}
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* [[One World Order]]
* [[Paparazzi]]: Hyraxx D'Mofiti
* [[Pie in
* [[Plant Aliens]]
* [[Porn Stash]]: Even nigh-omnipotent aliens have them.
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