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Buck Godot is a science fiction/comedy comic book series, collected in two graphic novels (Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire and Buck Godot: PSmIth) and assorted comic books, including the eight-issue "Gallimaufry" series, all drawn and written by their creator, Phil Foglio.
Buck Godot is a quick-witted futuristic mercenary; his motto is "Always available, but never free." He lives and works on the planet New Hong Kong, the only one of the human-settled worlds where the Law Machines, interplanetary law enforcement robots, do not operate, due to sabotage early on in the planet's settlement. He once worked for the great X-Tel Corporation, a corrupt transportation firm, but "retired" from their service after an ethical dispute, damaging their headquarters and stealing a starship as he left, in what Godot later cheekily described as a "lump-sum payment of his accrued wages and pension."
Buck mostly hangs around Asteroid Al's bar on New Hong Kong, waiting for work to come to him. He is a heroic drinker and can absorb incredible amounts of booze, mostly due to his heritage as a Hoffmanite -- a variant human race designed for a heavy gravity environment. While he looks like a rotund normal human, most of the extra bulk is muscle; Hoffmanites interact among themselves very roughly by normal human standards. "Courtship," Buck has noted, "usually starts with high explosives."
His best friend is Louisa Dem Five, the asteroid-born madame of the Velvet Fist brothel and owner of franchises on several other worlds, including the great Gallimaufry space station where such interstellar government as exists is headquartered.
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