Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — Now, that was unexpected. So that cocoon Aylee's been in for the last year... it wasn't her whole body in there, just the horn on the top of her head. Meanwhile she's been growing beneath the ground, becoming huge. And when she wakes up, she destroys the house. Dang, it's going to be hard to hide the alien now.

Day by Day — Chris is back! After the usual: Jan's old-time liberalism, microchip outsourcing, et cetera, it looks like Sam's having mood swings. Is she entering menopause? And meanwhile, Jan talks Damon into going to an Obama fundraiser, mainly because it hurts Hillary.

Scary Go Round — After the painful breakup after The Boy discovers that Esther's obsessed with Bob, things get weirder when he finds that Erin's engaged to Bob. In the midst of that, Moon, the scientist and former assistant to supervillains, comes to examine the fishman, and someone kidnaps Monty.

Dominic Deegan — It looks like all Dominic's students have decided to stick with the course. Afterwards, Runcible Spoon and Cassafin are getting ready to interview for the Headmaster position, but Neilen decides to mess with their spellbooks. Dominic helps to reverse the damage, and Neilen tries to laugh it off as a practical joke, going out of his way to protect Luna, who let the news slip. But something tells me that Neilen is up to no good. That something being his internal monologue.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — So with Dave out of the way, and Roger a little burnt out by his attempt to distract Diana, Mike gets a visit from Stanny, who cops to using his ten minutes to ruin his life.

Schlock Mercenary — Kevyn reads off the ransom demand for Shufgar, and now that Pronto's been captured, the mercenary hostages are about to be moved by teraport cage. Everyone wants to know what Tagon's going to do. I want to know where Schlock's gone.

Sluggy Freelance — So, Schlock's in love with Gwynn, huh? She, on the other hand, is perpetually angry at him, but that doesn't mean she doesn't think he's cute. Gwynn's perpetually angry with most of the people she loves. Torg, though, isn't angry with anyone, but he decides that doing what's right means moving in with his old roommates, and leaving Zoe in the apartment. This is the last straw for Zoe, though, and she's considering leaving the radio show. She's been very successful making fun of her friends, except that now she doesn't have any. After a beating at Gwynn's hands, Schlock decides it's time to leave, but just as he packs up, he discovers a life sign in Aylee's cocoon.

Day by Day — Chris Muir's still in Iraq, so Day by Day is still in reruns. It's all pretty recent, though, focusing on the Democrats trying to bug out on Iraq. The direction of their "leadership" is highly disappointing, isn't it?

Scary Go Round — After Bob seduced her (with magic!), Esther's a little obsessed with him. Okay, a lot obsessed, which causes her and the Boy to break up. Bob's suicidally disappointed that his love interest isn't a virgin, but he quickly moves on to a new target: Erin.

Dominic Deegan — Luna and Melna spend some quality time together, with Luna comforting her orcish friend. Then they go back and tease the blinded Dominic. Dominic's beginning to regret what he put his students through. After that, we have filler for the rest of the week as mookie's away.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — So, did Mike and April just do it? It sure looks like it, although it wasn't exactly the most romantic get together. Once Mike comes back to himself, he doesn't look happy about what happened, which does a fairly decent job of crushing April. Of course, April shouldn't have been playing with that fire to begin with, but I guess she couldn't have known about Stanny's involvement. He was definitely controlling Mike for that. Did he have any influence on April, too? And to what end? Is April going to be the mother of the antichrist, now? Meanwhile, Mike's dad is knocking out Dave, apparently preparing him for the Maximum Fun Chamber. Uh oh.

Schlock Mercenary — Pronto disables the fire control for the enemy vessel by blowing something up... which seems to be his preferred method for everything. And while Kevyn and Elf have escaped from one tank, they run into another pair, and now Elf loses her clothes too. There's a lot of naked humans around now.

Sluggy Freelance — Finally, we're back to Aylee! I'm still predicting she comes out human. Pete starts with a quick recap of everything that led up to her current condition, and then shows what happens when Schlock discovers that the faint energy readings from her years-long cocooned state have died out. Realizing that once the others discover what's happened, he'll be in big trouble (after all, they brought him there specifically to do what he could for Aylee), Schlock keeps it a secret while he plans his escape, with some unwitting help from Kiki. Meanwhile, Pete's started a countdown for some purpose he won't explain, likely Aylee's emergence from her cocoon. What? I don't for a second believe she's actually dead.

Day by Day — Chris Muir is embedded in Iraq. Sheesh, there are more bloggers embedded over there than reporters right now. In the meantime, he's running some old favorites. Democrats unable to decide who the enemy is, Jan and Damon clashing over politics, Sam and Zed flirting... it's all good.


Scary Go Round — In order to determine whether the serum that turned Dr. What's-his-name into a mindless monster will do the same to Erin, Amy and Shelley seduce a couple of scientists from his lab, getting a close look at what the good doctor has wrought, with a little advice from Ryan on what scientists are looking for. I wonder how he knows.

Dominic Deegan — Dominic spends some time going through applications to become the Headmaster at his mother's school. Most of them turn out to be pretty bad, but two of the applicants, already teachers there, are the best. So he'll be passing those on to his mother. Unfortunately, so much use of his second sight has given him Seer's Shroud--he's temporarily blinded. Which makes Luna's attempt to seduce him less fun. Of course, his sense of touch is working fine, but Melna quickly interrupts the exercise to explain to Luna what her problem is.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Oh, no. This is bad! Well, not so much Dave's good-bye kiss to Margaret. That was nice, and kind of necessary for now, but I'm a firm believer that those two will get together in the end. I'm referring to Mike kissing April, except that it's not Mike anymore. It looks like Stanny is taking his ten minutes now. We really could use some divine intervention, or IFWA, or Roger or Dave, or even Chester. Roger's still bemoaning his loss of Diane, though, and Harry's plan to brainwash Mike seems to be running into trouble. Instead, he's going to go after Dave, even though the Dragon's goons don't want to touch him.

Schlock Mercenary — With the enemy seizing the ship, the mercenaries are in trouble. Kevyn uses one of his explosive epaulets to get rid of a tank, and a bunch of goons, and Elf's power armor, and almost himself, except that Elf gives him a heave at the last moment. Unfortunately, despite that powerful counterattack, there's no chance to get to the shuttle, and Elf has to send the shuttle crew on ahead.

Hopefully this will go up on time this week.

Sluggy Freelance — Erica finishes up her two week guest artist stint with a fight between her and Pete, an "it was all a dream" photo-comic, some fanservice, and a quick Sluggy wishlist.

Day by Day — Paid websites, William Arkin, and Sam's gun calendar all come under scrutiny this week. Jan and Damon are debating global warming, and it looks like Jan's winning through clever marketing.

Scary Go Round — Shelley's worried about Erin, but meanwhile the high school principal is busy trying to find a virgin to marry. You'd think the place would be full of them, but it turns out that virgins are in somewhat short supply there. Esther's out at least. I'm thinking Erin will come in soon.

Dominic Deegan — Dominic reveals the "truth" to his students, and it's ugly. They don't like what they're seeing. Melna's dealing with her own truth, which isn't quite so ugly. So apparently, she's in love with Stonewater. Not a bad choice, actually.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Dave and Margaret continue their talk, and when Margaret offers to move away, Dave says no, and they kiss. I sure hope this isn't going to mess up things with Blue. Meanwhile, April gets Mike alone. She seems quite startled when he kisses her. It might have something to do with the aphrodisiac's his Dad's been spiking his drink with.

Schlock Mercenary — The mercenaries find themselves in a trap, as the enemy starts teraporting back aboard the "abandoned" ship, trying to take Kevyn, Elf, and the others hostage. It looks like they already have control of the bridge, and their firing on Tagon.

Sorry this is so late. I thought I had scheduled it to go up this Monday, but apparently I forgot.

Sluggy Freelance — Pete's on vacation this week, so Erica Henderson is the guest artist. Her comic is all about the difficulties of being a guest artist for Sluggy, starting with the effort to read through the archives, then dealing with fanatical Sluggites, then dealing with Pete himself.

Day by Day — This week, Jules Crittenden and Spain, the Congressional Black Caucus, musical chairs at the State of the Union, Al Gore's rotten luck, and PC speech suppression... all this week on Day by Day.

Scary Go Round — Shelley tries to have a discussion with the new mayor, but he's a mite crazy, and soon he's off to the mental ward. This brings up two issues: 1. Who's the mayor now?, and 2. Will the same thing happen to Erin?

Dominic Deegan — The bullies are dealt with quite effectively by Nimmel. I don't remember him, but I think he had a role during the Infernomancer's attack on the school. Meanwhile, Dominic's mom is announcing her retirement, and Melna is getting drunk and violent, with Dominic.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — April convinces Mike to dance, then convinces him to talk in private. This April is creeping me out. Dave, laser her already.

Schlock Mercenary — Tagon's sending Kevyn over to the captured ship to disable the hyper-nodes, and hopefully make the ship less of a booby trap. Kevyn quickly finds a teraport cage, however, which would allow the opposing force to quickly teraport to and from the ship.