Back of the Envelope

I missed the update last week, so I'm covering two weeks this time.


Sluggy Freelance — Zoe shows up on Torg's doorstep, having been kicked out by her housemates. This gives Torg and Zoe a chance to reconcile, now that Torg's willing to tell her why he's been avoiding her. None of that explains why he's in a cow costume, however. That's no where near as strange as seeing Riff in a cow costume. It turns out that Bun-bun has instructed them to get close to Grahammy so they can gather info on Oasis. It's not going quite as well as planned. Meanwhile, work's going pretty well for Zoe despite her spats with her co-workers. Sheesh, can't Zoe get along with anyone these days? Certainly not with Gwynn, who's plenty ticked off at her. She really didn't mean to set the monkeys on her, though.

Day by Day — Plagiarism of Yon, Murtha's speaker ambitions, National Review Online's fund-raising drive, immigration problems, and terrorist having difficulties, are all present these two weeks. The major storyline, however, is about the liberal Skye, who's come to Florida to see her big sister. Meanwhile, she has an unpleasant run-in with Damon.

Scary Go Round — After a week of guest comics, Scary Go Round is back. Alarmed by Tim's invent off, Shelley intends to do the journalist thing and expose the whole Brotherhood of Inventors to the light of public opinion. But first she needs a source.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Happy Dave jumps into the pool and crashes into Margaret. When she acts all worried, though, he can't help having a little joke at her expense, which merits a kiss and a wedgie. It looks like Margaret hasn't completely grown out of using violence to express herself.

General Protection Fault — With everybody captured, there doesn't seem to be much hope. However, the Emperor's mistaken about the amount of control he has over the Greys. With the Skaboola drugged, the drones are starting to develop independent thinking, and Pi and Planck are trying to get them riled up enough to fight.

Schlock Mercenary — Petey and the UNS are now going to have an extradition hearing on whether to send Tagon to the UNS. As they're unable to find neutral territory elsewhere, the hearing is held on the Touch-and-Go, with plenty of whipped food. The thing is, we know this was set up by Petey. The question is why. I suspect he's about to blackmail Tagon into something. Of course, I would like to see Kevyn or somebody come up with something clever to get Tagon out of this, just to see Petey get his comeuppance for once.

Sluggy Freelance — Torg returns to get Riff's help to get Oasis off his back forever. It's about darn time. Then, after a quick recap, Zoe runs afoul of her co-workers and has to do the radio show on her own. She really gets into telling all her stories about her housemates, taking out a lot of her anger at them. Unfortunately, her housemates actually listen this time, and they're mad. Me, I'm worried about who else may have been listening. Most folks would assume Zoe's stories were just fiction, but some of those Hereti-Corp guys might see a little more truth in those stories than would be good for Zoe and her friends.

Day by Day — Zarqawi's dead! And Jan, predictably, says it won't help any in her debates with Damon. Other than that, there's a bit of post-proposal fallout, and a bright red shirt.

Scary Go Round — Professor Davies isn't going to back down from his invent-off. This could be a problem. Fortunately, Tim's recruited his master assistant, Amy. Unfortunately, Riley kicks Amy out in a fit of jealousy.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Chastened by her imaginary crawling zombie better self, April decides to help Marsha, only to discover that Marsha doesn't need any fashion help, and now she's all envious again. Now Roger's on the warpath, looking for a fight with Dave, until he actually runs into the grinning madman that Dave's become. On a slight side note, it seems that ICZBA believes that Satan did put something in April back during "It Had to be You". Now, ICBZA was actually a dream, so there's no telling how real she may or may not be, but I'm inclined to think she's right.

General Protection Fault — And the whole gang has been captured now. At least they're together again. The sole exception is Dexter, super evil alt-Dexter, and Fooker's brother. Let's see if evil Nick manages to kill anyone important.

Schlock Mercenary — Now that they're out of interdiction, Tagon turns the tables on the police. He'll ship them home soon. Kevyn, meanwhile, gives Elf some instruction on teraport physics. She forced a teraport because she misunderstood what would happen when she did. Too bad the battleplate followed them.

Better late than never, I suppose.

Sluggy Freelance — Riff's Omni-taser Joy Buzzer works great on Zoe, after a little camouflage. His and Schlock's antics have motivated Zoe and Gwynn to hatch a plot to humiliate them, but they're going to need monkeys. What Gwynn isn't telling Zoe is that she wants to use the monkeys to cast a spell from the Book of E-ville which will restore her eyesight. Hopefully, it won't turn her to paper too. While she's doing that, Riff runs afoul of the monkeys.

Day by Day — Zed proposes to Sam! That's exciting. Of course, going down on one knee brings about back problems, which leads to Zed finally telling Sam about his time in the military.

Scary Go Round — Tim and Amy throw a shindig to improve the mood of the inventing community, but it doesn't work as well as they had hoped, and one of them challenges Tim to an invent off. The price of failure is exile.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — April has a run in with her imaginary crawling zombie better self. Unfortunately, there were only two comics this week, so not much else has happened.

General Protection Fault — Fooker and evil Fooker are facing off, as are Ki and evil Ki. I don't know how Fooker's doing, but it looks like Ki has lost this test of wills.

Schlock Mercenary — Police arrive to arrest Elf, but they settle for Tagon. It looks like his license to operate has already been revoked, so the whole reason he had for cooperating with the police is gone. However, Elf makes the daring decision to teraport despite the interdiction. It remains to be seen if they survive the trip.

I was running late and didn't get it done for Monday (I barely got the Storyblogging Carnival done, judging from all the typos), so I was going to have it for today, but I completely forgot. I'll try to get it done tonight.