Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — Zoe meets up with Frank and his daughter Meander, who've been trapped in the building since Frank was fired. Zoe convinces them to make a break to the lobby, but one of the bugs, having alreaday given a frog sentience, invades Frank. Has Frank been turned into a Zombgeek, or just made a little geeky? And what does Zoe have against cheerleaders?

Day by Day — This week, we've got the MSM, the NAACP, vibrating cell phones, conspiracy theorists, Ted Kennedy, and much more.

Scary Go Round — Shelley has jellyfish tow her Argentinian agent boyfriend to shore, Fallon gets herself killed for being a rogue agent, and Shelley helps deliver what looks like a clone of herself to Tackleford.

General Protection Fault — We begin by hearing Trevor's side. It looks bad, as Fred really has been nasty to him. Of course, that doesn't excuse Trevor trying to kill him.

Schlock Mercenary — The fleetmind has succeeded in neutralizing the threat to the galaxy, and they've declared war on the Paan'uri in Andromeda, without consulting their organic bosses. Meanwhile, future-Kevyn's retired, leaving Tagon and present-Kevyn to pick up the pieces.

I mean, how could anyone possibly argue that gay marriage is a plot against homosexuals?

I don't really agree, as the reasoning doesn't completely work and I don't think homosexuality is purely genetic. (I believe that genetics influences personality, and personality influences sexuality, but I've never been one to think that there's no degree of decision-making in our sexual preference.)

Sluggy Freelance — The bugs the creepy cloner geeks were planning to use on Zoe, which are supposed to convert all her social skills to geek smarts, escape and attack the audience, thus changing everyone but Zoe into a zombgeek. Thus Pete shifts effortlessly into a 28 Days Later parody. Although I've never seen 28 Days Later, I'm really enjoying the humor, especially when the head cloner gets his just desserts.

Day by Day — A few Rove jokes, a bit about the Iraq flypaper strategy and the continuing debate on it, but mostly a lot of fun interactions of the principle characters.

Scary Go Round — Shelley's having a boring time on the Island of Armageddon with the League of Enemies, who act more like they're on a Carribean vacation than planning to take over the world. It improves when a spy shows up for the express purpose of killing the League, with just enough time beforehand to romance Shelley. Too bad Fallon comes along and kills him right before he gets to the "eliminating the League" part.

General Protection Fault — The case begins once the judge decides that, if both the defense and the prosecution concur that the slime mold is a person, he ought to go along with it. Opening arguments are made, and all that lawyerly stuff. The problem, as I see it, is that Fred doesn't exactly show the proper respect to the court, and it's liable to hurt his case.

Schlock Mercenary — The battle has begun, as the Fleetmind battles the Paan'uri, which is what the dark matter entities call themselves. Fortunately for Tagon, he wisely decides to leave the Serial Peacemaker shortly before Ennesby gets it destroyed. I'd guess that Ennesby himself will survive, but he's just lost most of his brainpower.

Okay, this one is a little bit late, but considering all the substantive posts I've put up over the last couple of days, I'm hoping you'll forgive me.

Sluggy Freelance — Uh oh. Sluggy's new server will no longer do the full week on one page starting at any day of the week. It will only do Monday-Sunday, which means all my old WWUs are messed up, pointing to the week previous to the one they're referring to. I'll have to start linking to just the first day of the week. I don't know when I'll get a chance to fix the previous WWUs.

Anyway, in the actual comic, things take a turn for the better when Pete acknowledges he's overdone the iPodling jokes, and then ramps the tension up as Torg and Riff find out that Zoe's been kidnapped. That panel of Torg in the Hero shirt with Chaz in hand and Riff with his laser cannon was worth a hundred iSophagus jokes.

Day by Day — Pelosi's denseness gets special mention this week, as well as what's happening to the 9/11 monument. Finally, there's a mention of the London bombing.

Scary Go Round — It turns out that all Stanwyck needs from Shelley is a little bit of blood, after which he keeps her captive but unharmed on Armageddon island, which is inhabited by a confederation of Tim Jones's enemies. Overall, Shelley's having a fairly pleasant time.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Maritza only did one comic this week, of Lily arriving. Did Roger invite her or did she just show up? Is he going to tell her what happened to their mom? Will she try to kill Margaret? And is it Spring Break now, or is that still a week or two away? I don't know the answers to any of these, but I do know that CRFH is not going to be appearing in the WWU for a little while, as Maritza is on hiatus. Don't worry, it'll reappear once Maritza's ready to start drawing again.

In case you're interested, Maritza's daughter was born on the seventh, over a week earlier than expected.

General Protection Fault — Fred's trial has begun. He's gone public, and his goal is to get the government to recognize him as a person. Trent just wants money from him for being humiliated. And the judge just wishes he didn't have to deal with the cases with all the freaks.

Schlock Mercenary — Petey has kidnapped the project director of the core reactor and is mind-ripping him to get valuable information in order to prevent the destruction of the galaxy. What fun!

Sluggy Freelance — And after another week, we finally come to the end of the iSophagus saga. You know, usually I'd criticize this "saga" as unoriginal, weak, and crude, but for some reason I found it incredibly funny. Meanwhile, the creepy cloners discover that Zoe's snooping around, but being as creepy as they are, they're trying to encourage her, which is doing a good job of scaring her off.

Day by Day — Damon's house gets bulldozed, following the Kelo precedent. Meanwhile, Chris makes fun of Bush's way of speaking, Jimmy Carter's relationship with tyrants, and Sam and Zed's relationship.

Scary Go Round — So rather than UFOs, the mad inventor Archie Stanwyck, has captured Shelley this time. He's the one who killed her last time, before she came back as a zombie. And now that he's a half-zombie cyborg, he wants to find out how she went from zombie back to normal human.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — So only three comics this week, and not an April in one of them. Dave finally works up the backbone to do something before he loses Blue, but it's Jay who answers the phone when he calls. Dang, that's evil, as Jay, Blue's ex, tried to kill him not too long ago.

General Protection Fault — This week we meet Ki's cat, Randi. Apparently Nick's okay with adopting her, which is good. In addition, it seems as though the Gamester is still spying on Nick, but only Randi can see him.

Schlock Mercenary — Tagon finally escapes to his ship, where future-Kevyn explains what's going on. So, yay, it looks like Tagon really is back. He's not to happy with Ennesby taking his ship off to save the galaxy rather than coming to his rescue, though.