Times Like This

Taking the Space-Time Continuum, and ripping it a new hole.

She doesn't waste time – She recycles it.

Times Like This is a web comic created by Thomas Overbeck. It is, as the author puts it succinctly, "about time travel, and all the fun and interesting stuff involved with it. It's also about lampooning historical figures and speculating humorously on current celebrities."

In short – it's a "Comedy of Eras."

The main character is Cassie Wells (whose name is doubly appropriate, all things considered), a young female genius who discovers the ability to travel through time. She works at a high-tech lab in the Dallas area specializing in Nanotechnology.

She has two friends helping her with her travels: Matt Gahan, an electronics expert whom Cassie befriended when he worked at the travel agency next door; and her best friend from school, Bethany Gibson.

She lives in the greater Dallas area along with Bethany, her pet dinosaur Mascus, and her MIRA-7 robot, named Nicki Darling. (Yes, exactly what you're thinking - Matt came up with the last name, and she wasn't too thrilled about it.)

Her travels are "monitored" by the Federal government (until a particular person was elected President) - but not how you'd expect. Agent Keith Scott has been assigned by the FBI to keep tabs on her - and help her keep her secret.

Since slightly before the COVID-19 pandemic started, Times Like This has had extremely irregular updates, sometimes going months between strips.

Tropes used in Times Like This include:

Cassie: Well, we're certainly giving self-help a whole new meaning!
Future Cassie: Heh... Not to mention talking to yoursef!
Cassie: Next thing you know it'll be playing with yourse-- Oooh, uhhh... Never mind.
Future Cassie: Yyyyeah. Let's not go there.

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