Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — When Lady Noga attacks, Calix, Kada, and BA manage to escape, leaving behind the pirates and leaf people who tried to kill them. Those end up running out of time and succumbing to the long grey, at least until John Jacobs captures the Greys but leaves behing the rest.

Day by Day — Al Gore's global warming,Campaign Finance Reform, Fertik calling for blackmail, Google's Communist collaboration, Michael Yon, and John Murtha all get some play time this week, all in a dialogue between Damon and Jan.

Scary Go Round — Milford realizes his complete lack of musical ability might impede his hopes to start a rock band, so he comes up with an alternative: 'synth pop.' Meanwhile, Lindsay tosses Black Esther out of her band for poor singing, and instead hires Roxy, whose become sufficiently dark in her hypnotized state to pass for a Goth--with really blond hair.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — The Roomies somehow manage to board the plane, despite having implanted devices and being on terrorist watch lists and being armed to the teeth (well, Margaret says she's unarmed, but I don't believe it).

General Protection Fault — UGA's been spying on Nick, which is how they discover that a false Ki visited him the night before the wedding. They also guess that he's been kidnapped via the Mutex, which is supposed to be a VR simulator but actually bridges worlds. Meanwhile, our world's Trudy shows up, and we visit Evil Nick and Ki, who are holding Good Nick captive. How come Nick always winds up getting kidnapped?

Schlock Mercenary — On their way to deliver the giant squid, Tagon assigns crew quarters, but has to keep them all together to save space while keeping them from realizing exactly how spacious the ship is.

Sluggy Freelance — Bun-bun and Blacksoul get into one incredible fight, which ends with both of them going into the Ocean Unmoving, where they're apparently lost forever. Meanwhile, Calix frees those remaining of his people so both they and the pirates hurt him for betrayal. Poor Calix--he's just done his best to do the right thing, and still everyone hates him.

Day by Day — The Alito hearings, Walter Cronkite, computer addicts, Hillary Clinton, conspiracy theories on bin Laden, and Ted Kennedy, all get some play time this week.

Scary Go Round — After Esther and Erin debate the cause of Shelley's weirdness, a Battle of the Bands competition is announced, and Milford intends to win. The fact that he's much better at drawing crude band logos than actually playing an instrument isn't about to deter him.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — After convincing Roger to fix his robotic hand, Mike sets out to convince Dave to come. All it really takes is three women bodily dragging him to the airport.

General Protection Fault — UGA shows up with a guest, and alt-Trudy gives the good guys some advice. Mostly, though, Mr. Darlington is dragging things out, refusing to tell us what's really going on, keeping us guessing about whom UGA brought (I bet it's this world's Trudy).

Schlock Mercenary — Looking for a quick job, the mercenary company decides to capture a giant squid. It's easy work, plus they get paid twice!

Sluggy Freelance — It's Bun-bun vs. Blacksoul, round n+1. His attempt to trick Calix into attacking Blacksoul doesn't work, as Calix has run off with Kada. Blacksoul is one of the few people that Bun-bun can't beat by brawn. Fortunately, he always has a plan B.

Day by Day — Sam, Zed, Jane, and Damon are all at a party for Hillary Clinton. Zed doesn't like the way Mr. Clinton looks at Sam, so he decks him. The secret service, and Hillary herself, are surprisingly accomodating.

Scary Go Round — It looks like I misunderstood last week. It wasn't Erin who got hypnotized, but Roxy, who's actually a much paler blond with longer hair who doesn't wear glasses like Erin--I really shouldn't have made that mistake, but then, I didn't remember Roxy at all. Anyway, this week everyone's wondering what's up with her.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Mike invites the rest of the Roomies on Spring Break with him. Most of them are eager to come, but he has to do some arm-twisting just to get Dave to come, much less convince him to pretend to be his gay lover.

General Protection Fault — Fooker and Ki try to figure out what's happened to Nick, but they're going to have to do something about the wedding that's about to be postponed due to missing groom. Just as they're making plans, an alternate Trudy shows up.

Schlock Mercenary — Kevyn creates a very creepy AI, dumb when it comes to sentience but tactically brilliant, to run the ship. It's his way to keep the ship's AI from disobeying orders and getting itself blown up again. Meanwhile, Ennesby takes on a new role, adjutant, which works a lot like the role of gopher.


I may be adding a new comic to be added to the Weekly Webcomic Update soon. We'll see.

Sluggy Freelance — The Holiday Ninja storyline comes to a close with Torg and Riff no richer, and now it's back to Oceans Unmoving, and Blacksoul's attack is driving the Bloody Bun into the timeless ocean.

Day by Day — Dan Rather, the New York Times, and the rest of the MSM get their usual beating, then Hillary Clinton receives some mockery just before the cast goes to her big party.

Scary Go Round — Erin and Black Esther sure are spending a lot of time together. They have a lot of fun making fun of other people's relationships, loud people in diners, and January sales. Then the Child shows up and his guardian hypnotizes Erin, indicating that some weird stuff is about to happen.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — And yet more winners from Maritza's fanstuff contest. I think Maritza's coming back this week, though.

General Protection Fault — The groomsmen have noticed that Nick's missing, and they're on the hunt to find him. I'm still trying to decide whether they're more likely not to find Nick, or to find an alternate dimension version of him.

Schlock Mercenary — There's some debate on whether to let Ennesby pilot the new ship. Tagon says no, Kevyn says not unless he gets a chance to take Ennesby apart and rebuild him, and Ennesby says that he doesn't really want to pilot the ship that badly anyway. At least Ennesby managed to come up with a name for the ship.

Sluggy Freelance — Holiday Ninjas Torg and Riff have run into real ninjas, who've been hired to hunt them down. Unfortunately for the ninjas, they lack the guys' gift for literal sight gags and really stupid schemes that somehow work.

Day by Day — Christmas for Day by Day involves a lot of gift giving, mostly dresses for the girls from the guys. How's that work, anyway? I wouldn't dare buy clothes for any girl I know.

Scary Go Round — For the Christmas holiday, Shelley once again shares John Allison's favorite albums of the year. Sometimes she just doesn't show them the respect he thinks they deserve.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — More winners from Maritza's fanstuff contest.

General Protection Fault — With Nick tansported to another dimension, Ki's little brother Yoshi is experimenting with his gizmos, trying to build his own Mutex, and accidentally summoning an alternate version of Trudy. Uh-oh. This could be good or bad, depending.

Schlock Mercenary — Back to Der Trihs, who's had a major breakthrough. It turns out that the brain damage was actually the end result of an experimental brain enhancing operation which went wrong, until it just recently kicked in. That would be cool of Der Trihs weren't resigning.