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Salvastalker
Since: Nov, 2017
1st Jul, 2019 06:44:44 AM
Nevermind, I found it. It's "The Forever War: Forever Free", by Joe Haldeman.
I'm looking for a comic I read about a small space colony, formed by some people who ran away from earth or something.
The first settlers have kids, who take the ship they arrived in, and go trying to find another planet to live in or something.
The main theme of the comic is nostalgia, and the writer uses the space-time trope of light-speed time travel as a medium. For example, two women who are in love, one of them accompanies the kids, and come back like a year later. But the one who stayed on the planet is 20 years older. They still love each other, even when the older one gets married to a man. They live and grow old on the colonized planet, on a farm/cowboy lifestyle, with 21/22 century technology. One of the characters uses a 21 century pick-up.
The kids also find an alien species, who look like ants, and have a slightly different set of moral principles. In one particular instance, one of the ant-aliens kill a crew member with an axe, and then calmly tells everyone who saw it that it was in self-defence, and that he was scared of the crew member. It's ambiguous if it really was self-defense or more like "he had it coming".
Both the drawing and the literary style are realistic, modern, American style, similar to Y: The last man.
I'm 90% is a comic, and 10% that it might have been a webcomic. Read it in website to read comic online (you know which one).
What was the name of this comic? Can't find it in any of the tropes pages I remember.
Edited by Salvastalker