Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — Uh-oh. The Grahammy they thought they had turns out to be Broadman, and he's a martial arts expert. He kicks Torg's and Riff's tails. Unfortunately for Broadman, his boasting about the owning the cows (Riff and Torg in cow suits) gets him the blame for bringing the stampede to the party, and Zoe gets the promotion she's looking for. Meanwhile, Torg blurts out that he kissed Gwynn to Riff, and Riff admits he's dating some girl named Miranda, whom the rest of them have never met.

Day by Day — The New York Times, Howard Dean, Andrew Sullivan, and terrorists get plenty of mockery, a lot of it coming from Zed and Sam at the beach. I think that's mostly an excuse to draw Sam in a bikini.

Scary Go Round — Having lost the inventing contest, fair and square as far as he knows, Tim leaves for exile. Meanwhile, Shelley's not being awarded for her journalism in trying to uncover the conspiracy.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Dave wins the swimming match, due to his superior swimming ability, but Mike thinks he cheated. Before things can get really interesting, Blue shows up.

General Protection Fault — Dexter's plan gets them past the guards, evil Nick is ignoring the reactor going critical, as it looks like a mere blip to him, while Ki's about to provide a distraction to let Dex do his thing.

Schlock Mercenary — Massey presents a novel defense: wer're guilty, but not what they're accusing us of, and by the way, the government's guilty too. TAG has an objection: he thinks the government's trying to prevent a civil war.

Sluggy Freelance — Kiki and Bun-bun are at the party too. Kiki sneaks into a pie, with which the monkeys hit Zoe's boss while aiming for her. Zoe takes that as her cue to make a hasty retreat, where she runs into Torg and Gwynn, who've caused quite a bit of damage. Admittedly, it wasn't really Torg's fault, as it was Gwynn who sicced the monkeys on Zoe and Riff who started the stampeded, but he is at the party wandering around in a cow suit. Just as it looks like the party is ended by stampede, Torg spots Grahammy. Yay! Hopefully the guys won't be wandering around in cowsuits anymore.

Day by Day — Jan just doesn't get the NRAniks, Zed doesn't get Sam, and Rove doesn't get the base, in this week's Day by Day. The terrorists do, however, understand American culture well enough to borrow from our playbook. Finally, on Sunday, the USS Cindy Sheehan doesn't do too well against the alien invaders, so Captain Murtha makes a run for it.

Scary Go Round — Shelley's got the goods on what's happening at this invent-off, but Elaine Wu catches her in the act and beats her up to take her phone. Fortunately, Esther makes short work of the political operator.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — This week, we got comics on Tuesday and Thursday. Dave challenges Mike to a swimming race over his cell phone debt. Meanwhile, Marsha's feeling guilty about April, which is interesting, as April's feeling guilty about Marsha. Hmmm...

General Protection Fault — It turns out that Dexter's evil twin isn't interested in helping out, which upsets Dexter. Fortunately, he has his own plan to get Fooker and Jason past the guards.

Schlock Mercenary — Tagon doesn't do a great job following the script, so Massey convinces Petey to let him represent himself.

Sluggy Freelance — It's a wild ten minutes at the party. Gwynn's monkeys attack, Zoe shoots herself in the foot with her clever insults, Gwynn kisses Torg, and Riff starts a stampede. The Sunday at the end is particularly brilliant, as it forces you to go back to a past strip and see that what appeared to happen was only Gwynn's glassesless perception of reality, and it ain't accurate.

Day by Day — Uh-oh. On a techie note, Chris Muir has changed his webpage so the old links I used will no longer work. On the bright side, it's really nice looking, the permalinks are easier to find, and the full size Sundays show up better. So overall, a net gain. Speaking of Sunday, the Superman rewrite of the last one is followed by Bill Keller cosplaying as Spiderman. Then it's on to mockery of the Dixie Chicks and North Korea, Ken Lay conspiracies, and the race problems of Biden and Rove. We finish up with Skye, Sam, and Jan ganging up on Damon, who was just asking for it.

Scary Go Round — Esther is disappointed in the Boy, but there's little she can do as the match begins, and Tim begins construction of a catapult. Shelley and her sister are keeping an eye on things, but they're beginning to realize that there are bigger things going on than a simple invent-off.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Marsha's ticked at Mike, but he makes a break for it. He'd have made it, too, if Dave hadn't collided with him. The two good friends then set out to manipulate one another.

General Protection Fault — The biggest news this week is that Jeff Darlington is no longer updating daily. He, like Maritza Campos, is now down to three days a week. Too bad, considering that evil Fooker's death is about to cause a base to explode. Now we'll be watching it happen in super-slow-motion.

Schlock Mercenary — Massey has an idea. Didn't Massey's last idea get them into this mess? But this time he's convinced that if Tagon follows the script, all will be well, except the part where Ennesby comes up with some new information which invalidates the script.

Sluggy Freelance — Gwynn's desperate to stop her monkeys from ruining Zoe's career, so she crashes the party. So does Torg, still dressed in a cow costume. Meanwhile, Broadman and Midgetski are determined to ruin Zoe's career, or at least stop her from advancing above them, so they're sure to try to crash the party to.

Day by Day — Skye meets Zed, and surprisingly, they seem to get along okay, despite the fact that Skye is overly affectionate.

Scary Go Round — Shelley uses her feminine wiles to win the Boy's cooperation in spying on Tim, and gains a prime vantage point to watch the invent-off.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Everything's back to how it should be: Dave's depressed, Roger's oblivious, and April's slutty. Okay, that's not quite how it should be. Dang it, April, get your act together already!

General Protection Fault — Fooker's still fighting his evil doppleganger, and the battle brings them into contact with his brother and the Dexters. I hope they can successfully join forces.

Schlock Mercenary — Tagon's really overmatched in the lawyering. I hope that Massey can help him out, especially if they're right and it really is a set-up. They are guilty, just not guilty of what they're being accused of.

Update: I had forgotten I did two weeks last time, so I failed to increment properly and the links were off by a week. It's fixed now.