Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — Zoe's not happy at work, nor is Gwynn. Schlock and Riff are getting along pretty well, though, roleplaying selling alien DNA to evil corporate goons, apparently to get it out of Schlock's system. Sunday's is the best, though, when Schlock takes advantage of his blow up decoys.

Day by Day — Damon somehow convinces Jan to join him, Sam, and Zed at the shooting range. She doesn't seem to be getting along well there, what with casings in her shirt and hassling the military guys. But how do the military folks know Zed?

Scary Go Round — The minotaur becomes a local hero, but Tim and company are worried he'll eventually go crazy, so they arrange a meeting with the envoy from Robotania, resulting in a fried minotaur. That's really a pretty evil plot.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — It's back! The Roomies have arrived, and the girls are just now finding out how rich Mike is, leaving Dave feeling inadequate as usual. Marsha's suffering from sea hair, and April intends to outshine her. Well, it's not really that evil.

General Protection Fault — Evil Nick tries to trick good Nick to help in his plans, by telling him that he is leading the world in its fight against the aliens. Nick isn't buying it, but he can't let evil Nick kill Ki, even if it isn't his Ki.

Schlock Mercenary — Schlock helps steal some nanocameras. Meanwhile, Massey is short selling rising stock, and losing a fortune unless their plan works out.

Sluggy Freelance — Torg and Bun-bun meet, predictably leaving Torg unconscious. The only surprising thing is that he managed to avoid Bun-bun's attack, although he hit his head against the wall doing so. Who's that weird chick in his dream? I say there's a decent chance it's Alt-Zoe's ghost, but it's not certain yet. In other news, Schlock's presence is explained--he's helping Aylee in return for some tech exchange with Riff. And just when Torg wakes up, Bun-bun's stealing his car, but Torg manages to come along for the ride.

Day by Day — A lot of fun interactions between Zed and Sam, followed by some fun interactions between Jan and Damon. Of course, there's still room for some politics, including Kelo, Glenn Reynolds's book, and Lauren Weiner. "Who?" you ask. She's the one who illegally acquired Lt. Governor Steele's credit report.

Scary Go Round — Shelley and her journalist colleague discover the minotaur from the labyrinth hiding in their barn. After a few pictures, they intend to call pest control, hopefully without getting mauled.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Maritza still hasn't restarted. Well, she did have an eye operation, so I can hardly blame her for resting her eyes.

General Protection Fault — Nick sees through the false Ki, and his alternate self tries to convince him to help save the world. Of course, we all know that his counterpart is really evil, but will Nick figure it out. He is more suspicious these days, so I'm guessing he will.

Schlock Mercenary — Kevyn analyzes Massey's plan and declares it good, although he'll need some help from some Ennesby and Thurl, who'll do some hacking, and Schlock will have to help the inside man do some theft.

Sluggy Freelance — Bun-bun's home, and he's causing his usual trouble. Zoe rushes home from her hateful job to confront him, and he has fun with the opportunity to beat up their new roommate: Dr. Schlock. Schlock moved in since Torg moved out. Which leaves the real question: where is Torg? What's he doing? This'll be good once we find out.

Day by Day — Murtha, the media attitude towards classified documents, and Cindy Sheehan get some love this week. Well, for decidedly masochistic definitions of the word, anyway. Maybe I should just call it skewered by Muir. Of course, there's plenty left over for the Dubai ports deal and, of all things, candlelit dinners.

Scary Go Round — Esther and Erin use Sattelite images to find the center of a labyrinth, where they meet a minotaur. Since there are always minotaurs at the center of labyrinths, I guess. I'm wondering why images good enough to lead them to the center of the labyrinth didn't show the minotaur. Or did he show up as a fuzzy dot? Anyway, the minotaur doesn't seem too violent, but I wonder what they plan to do with him.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Maritza takes a week off, so no updates this week.

General Protection Fault — Ooh, there are Greys in this comic too. They're spies on Emperor Nick, but they have a really bad reaction to Persephone. I wonder why. Meanwhile, Nick's being interrogated by the false Ki. I wonder what she's after.

Schlock Mercenary — The plan to take down a television network is coming together, with a dead drop arranged for the inside man, and a completely incomprehensible plan on Massey's part taking care of the network's insurance. Meanwhile, Kevyn's pretty sure he can bring down the building with some anti-matter cutting charges.

Sluggy Freelance — And Oceans Unmoving finally comes to the end. I didn't care for Oceans Unmoving overall, but it got much better once Bun-bun left. Bun-bun is more destructive than constructive, and without him, Calix became the Pirate King and Kada his queen and captain of his flag ship, the Greys his lieutenants, and we leave them on the verge of war as he leads his armada against the forces of John Jacobs. It turns out that Calix, Kada, and BA did rescue Face and Murdock, and they're telling their tale just as a matter of historical record. It's a cool ending, even if it took much too long to get there.

Day by Day — Muir sends some love to Mad Mikey, a blogger who's recovering from a stroke, proposes a counter to the "Why Mommy is a Democrat" children's book (which I discussed myself earlier), and takes on the Zogby poll and ranting high school teachers.

Scary Go Round — We leave Shelley under the mind control of an earwig and we visit Mayor Tim, who is receiving an ambassador from Robotania, which might work out better if Amy had not finagled her way into being Tim's assistant and then taken charge of the reception for the ambassador.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Dave is finally reunited with Chester, and while the girls deal with their own clothing problems he tries to convince them to hide Chester under their shirts so they can sneak out the suspected terrorist cat.

General Protection Fault — On the flip side, Ki and the gang meet the "good" counterparts of their enemies, including the CRUDE gang, a brain-damaged Yoshi, and some aliens.

Schlock Mercenary — Determined to take down a whole television (it's not called television anymore, though, is it?) network, the mercenary company decides to explore some alternative methods, assigning their lawyer to figure out how to uninsure the network, and one of their soldiers to infiltrate the company.