Back of the Envelope

For once, this should go up on time. Assuming that I don't delete it by accident again. Grr.

Sluggy Freelance — Torg's Playstation Puny isn't a technological match for Riff's iPodling. It's so small that Torg mistakes it for a multivitamin and swallows it, making for days' worth of iSophagus jokes. It sounds kind of stupid--okay, it is kind of stupid--but for some reason, I found it really funny. Meanwhile, Zoe's trying to learn what the creepy cloners are up to.

Day by Day — It's really getting hard to parody the Democrats these days, but Chris is trying his best. My favorite one was Wednesday's, however.

Scary Go Round — Unable to find Shelley, Amy's moving away, which means putting all Shelley's stuff into storage. And it looks like Fallon's had enough of Ryan, and they're breaking up.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Marsha's agreed to marry Mike, which makes him very happy--in a running around naked with his underwear on his head sense. I'd say Dave should zap him as a precautionary measure, but that would require looking at him. This, needless to say, does not make April happy, and she goes back to Paul. Bad move, April. Let's see if Paul can redeem himself by treating April like a friend rather than a client, which is what he should have done in the first place. The reason I was so angry with him last time was not just that he treated her as a client, he did so when she thought he was being a friend.

General Protection Fault — The Brotherhood decides that neither Sharon nor Fooker are the One, but that they're destined to be the parents of him (or her), which to Sharon's mind is even creepier.

Schlock Mercenary — After days of butter and chainsaw jokes, we finally see the two mercenary companies cut their way to safety. When Pranger tells Tagon how much Kevyn's paying, he gets that stunned look of folks knocked across the forehead with a solid gold, diamond studded fencepost.

Dang, this is probably the latest the WWU's been in a while. Sorry, but I was out-of-town this weekend on not one, but two, trips, and having to get the final chapter of Eyes in the Shadow, Storyblogging Carnival XXI, and the Weekly Webcomic Update done within that time was just a bit beyond my abilities. Something had to be pushed back, and the WWU was it. Well, at least it's done now. I'll redate it back to Saturday in the archives later.

Sluggy Freelance — The guest storyline comes to a spectacular finish, and now Pete's back and his hand's working. Yay! Torg needs to come up with an ad package for Snikey, which makes sports' shoes, while Gwynn's spying on Riff to find out how he's making so much money by babysitting.

Day by Day — Damon and Jan, Zed and Sam spend a night on the town, all the while making fun of the overblown reaction to Guatanamo. Zed and Damon are all for invasion of personal space by a female.

Scary Go Round — John's back too. Fallon and Amy have noticed that Shelley's missing, and they suspect goblins. Well, Shelley does have a history of problems with them. So the two hire a paranormal investigator, but as they're both out of work (Fallon has quit the spy business), they can't afford someone with actual qualifications.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Dave is very reliable. When something good happens to him, you can count on him to screw it up. Now, I actually approved of Dave trying to slow things down with Blue. They were going too fast, their relationship was too sexual, they just needed time to sort things out and do it properly. However, of all the reasons Dave might have to do so--worried that Satan might go after her, fear of the Dragon, wanting to stay on God's good side in case he needed another dry-cleaning, wanting to make sure Mike isn't right and his feelings for her aren't pure lust, even needing to sort out his feelings for Margaret--he just had to go with feeling like too much of a poor loser to date the rich girl. Could he have come up with a reason more likely to drive her off if he had tried? Maybe, but I doubt it. Roger actually gives Dave some good advice afterwards, but it's coded in Roger-speak and delivered with his usual lack of empathy, so I doubt it will do Dave much good.

General Protection Fault — Fooker and Sharon stumble on the Brotherhood's plans. Fooker, at least, is all for helping out, so he and Sharon fix the thePROPH3T's code to find out what the prophecy's really about.

Schlock Mercenary — Past-Kevyn's mini-antimatter bomb goes off, causing a great deal of damage, destroying tanks, damaging ships, turning the Phica reactor into a big, smoking hole in the ground. At least Tagon and Pranger and company are deep enough underground to survive.

Sluggy Freelance — The Sluggite, Georg (see, he has a name now), gets Zoe and Riff to go to the Dimension of Pain in search Torg, and then gets tossed into the Dimension of E-ville when Gwynn accidentally uses the Book to summon Riff instead of Torg. Meanwhile, Bun-bun's talking to glowing-headed Pete. He ain't happy with him.

Day by Day — Jan and Damon, agreeing. Wow, that freaks me out. Still, there's plenty of time to make fun of Amnesty International, the MSM, dog-owners, DeLay, and Howard Dean.

Scary Go Round — Guest strips still. I liked a lot of them this week, especially the ones where Amy's a caricaturist.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — So it doesn't look like Roger likes Paul either. Do any of the Roomies like him anymore? April was the one who was closest to him, but he burned that bridge to ashes. April's finally doing something smart and having a serious talk with Dave. Unfortunately, Blue cuts that talk short. It seems like that happens every time she attempts to ask for help. You don't think there's a Satanic influence here, do you?

General Protection Fault — So, the remains of the Brotherhood are now testing Sharon to see whether she's the One. She's game, but does she really want to pass? It looks like she might have failed in the same way that Fooker did--insufficiently geeky priorities.

Schlock Mercenary — So we're back with future-Kevyn in his efforts to save the galaxy. He attempts to reason with the Gatekeepers, but their bureaucracy gets in the way. After that it's up to Petey and the fleetmind to back up the threats with force of arms.

I'm late again. Ugh, sorry about that, but the all day wedding on Saturday threw me behind schedule. It was worth it, just for the chance to see a lot of old friends. That and seeing a good friend of mine get married too.

Sluggy Freelance — Pete's taking two weeks off to heal his broken hand, so we get a guest comic. Set around the time Torg entered the Dimension of Pain to escape the N.U.K.E., we get a crossover between Sluggy and our universe, with Bun-bun out to find Pete and a random Sluggite trying to help Riff, Gwynn, and Zoe find Torg. Looks interesting.

Day by Day — McCain's ego is a big topic this week, but Chris also criticizes Frist for calling changing the Senate rules the "nuclear option." I do agree that calling it the "nuclear option" was a huge mistake. If they'd given it a less extreme sounding name, they probably could have passed it. Finally, the MSM takes its usual share of criticism.

Scary Go Round — Guest strips up at Scary-Go-Round too. Some of them are good, and some are outright scary.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — It doesn't look like Mike's gonna get rid of Sticky. I thought it might be hard to destroy, but one would think they could at least lock it in a chest, sink it in wet concrete, and drop it into the ocean. That should at least slow it down.

General Protection Fault — GPF is expanding, and they're hiring new people to fill out the work force, including the remaining Brotherhood of the Twisted Pair.

Schlock Mercenary — Kevyn manages to destroy a tank with one epaulet, before getting blown apart by the other tank. Before that happened, though, he armed his remaining epaulet, which turns out to be a small anti-matter bomb, roughly equivalent to a 15 kilotons. This results in a boom and one less Kevyn in the universe. Well, it was getting hard to distinguish between them.

Back when I discussed Christian webcomics, I mentioned the comic 1/0, done by a guy going by the name of Tailsteak. I've recently discovered what he's been working on recently, and I thought I'd point it out. Now, if you check this out, you'll want to start at the beginning.

This comic is about three guys, who happen to be in a band, who discover this... thing in their basement. The thing is clearly intelligent, but whether it's a mutant, an alien, or a demon or an angel is a complete unkown. It's fun as they try to figure it out, philosophizing on what it may or may not be and how they should treat it.

This particular comic is not the only thing Tailsteak's working on, and navigating through his archives is a bit tricky, as each of his projects are running concurrently, and there's really no way to tell which one he's going to post on any given day. At the bottom of the page you'll see two sets of arrows, one which are just arrows, and another which have little symbols behind them. Use the ones with those little symbols, as they'll navigate you through a particular project, skipping over the works from other projects. And then you can try looking at some of his different projects if you want. Anyway, worth checking out, more for the humor and the philosophical discussions than for the artwork.