Quote Originally Posted by uncool View Post
I've been thinking about it, and I think I can pinpoint one specific point that heralded the downhill, at least in my view: the challenge coin.

But that could just be me; what do you guys think?
I'm not sure about when the decline actually started, but for me the symbolic moment that sums it up best was when Schlock developed a conscience. In that moment, he went from being a slightly simple but totally bad-ass mercenary Sergeant to effectively a hyper-effective cutesy child sidekick. And just as Taylor was changing the essence of the titular character, he changed the nature of the comic to something much less enjoyable.