Back of the Envelope

Not only is this overdue, but I forgot to put one up entirely last week. So this week I'm covering two weeks.

Sluggy Freelance — Back to Aylee and Torg, who've run into some actual, honest-to-God humans. Who then try to shoot Aylee down. Hey, just because she's big doesn't mean she's hostile. Just clumsy. Then it's a couple of filler weeks with Clay Yount, and Gwynn's creating a potion. Not good, definitely not good.

Day by Day — Jan's dad has hired a mercenary to look after her. She's not happy. Neither is Sam, when the merc, Naomi, turns out to be a former colleague of Zed's. And while all this is happening, it's the immigration bill that has everyone's attention in the states.

Scary Go Round — So, Ryan captures the Leprechaun's mate, a little bird, and proceeds to be beaten up by leprechauns, ogres, and unicorns. Fortunately, Margo's mad crochet skills save the day, and the leprechaun comes willingly for her work.

Dominic Deegan — Dominic goes to talk to the Shintula orcs in a vision, and gets his head handed to him. Afterwards, he gives as good as he gets, but it seems that the Shintula are just as xenophobic as he warned Cassafin. Meanwhile, Dominic's mother is not happy with either of her two headmaster candidates. On the bright side, Dominic and Melna finally get a chance to, well, be intimate.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Mike's mom is blaming Dave for not saving her son. Not that Dave was there, but if he had been more responsible, maybe they could have gotten Mike help in time.

Schlock Mercenary — The rest of the mercenaries delay Kevyn's departure, and meanwhile he's restored to his more human form. He's happy to be back to normal. And Elf is happy that he's back, and planning to move in. Petey may or may not be happy... it's hard to tell. But in the meantime, he has a job for Tagon's crew.

Sluggy Freelance — Riff discovers Bun-bun's little flea market, and tries to buy some explosives off of him. It seems that Riff has no plans to hide Aylee... he simply wants to kill her. Nerdboy's not going to be happy, and even Bun-bun likes Aylee. But Bun-bun and Riff do work together to keep the government from digging up the house.

Day by Day — The hypocrisy of the global warming prophets is pure gold for Chris Muir. Meanwhile, Jan is learning to deal with all sorts of military junk, from paperwork to tough female soldiers to body armor to military planes. Sounds fun.

Scary Go Round — Right on the verge of capturing the leprechaun, Hugo shows up, bringing with him the woman Ryan was chatting up at the airport. She quickly concludes that Ryan must be nuts, since he's trying to capture a leprechaun. If only!

Dominic Deegan — Jacob shows up, and he and Dominic, despite their differences, quickly discover that something much different from what they expected is going on. The destruction of Maltak is actually its purification. Of course, Jacob slips out when Dominic isn't looking, and continues his own experiments on a certain Elemental. Yeah, Jacob's evil, but he usually only torments the nasty ones, so it's hard to get too worked up.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — So Mike really is dead, and April's in hiding. Well, that's a bummer. I've never been a big fan of Mike, but I did like April at one point. She's gone downhill quite a bit if she's now a murderer.

Schlock Mercenary — Kevyn's called the calvary, and Tagon comes for the pick-up, taking care of any of Shufgar's remaining soldiers. What he hears about Kevyn's performance is pretty impressive, but it seems that Kevyn's not interested in continuing the mercenary job.

Sluggy Freelance — Schlock narrowly escape, but draws the attention of Hereti-corp in the process. Schlock discovers that Aylee's horn contains no DNA, that's it's just ordinary rock, which is what Torg's discovered as well. It'll be interesting to see how this Kesandru Aylee plays out. We do find out what happened to Kiki... it appears that Bun-bun retrieved her.

Day by Day — After dealing with the military's paperwork, Jan has some trouble with the sexism of the female soldiers she's meeting. Jan's worldview has trouble with all sorts of things. But don't worry, there's still time to make fun of some prominent Democrats.

Scary Go Round — So one god captured, on to the next, and Ryan's trying to capture a leprechaun. It's not going well, but at least he hasn't been lavaed to death by a volcano god. Speaking of which, how do these guys qualify as gods? I'd hardly rank them as tough monsters.

Dominic Deegan — Cassafin ignores Dominic's advice and decides to go to the orc homelands anyway. That wasn't such a smart idea. Although she recruits a royal knight for protection, the Shintula quickly turn her away, destroying her supplies in the process.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Wait, wait, wait! Did April just kill Mike? It sure looks like it. There's a funeral and his family's there and everything. Of course, no one's actually saying who's funeral it is, and Harry was in a pretty bad way the last we saw of him... It could be a bait and switch, or it could be a bait and switch of a bait and switch. Either way, it's not looking good.

Schlock Mercenary — With the help of Schlock, and a gun implanted in his frontal lobe, Kevyn quickly defeats Shufgar. Now the team's back together and everyone's happy. Except Shufgar and his goons, who're badly injured. And Pronto, who's dead. And the rest of the mercenaries, who are bummed that Pronto's dead. Okay, so no one's happy, but things are still looking up.