Back of the Envelope

Sluggy Freelance — Jane tells the rest of her story, about how she and the other zombies defended themselves against the scientists who wanted to study their braaainnss, who succeeded in capturing them until Jane was able to use her above average zombie intelligence wiles to escape, only to find that her own brother had become one of them. So she locked him in a cold storage unit. Ugh--that story was wrong for all sorts of reasons.

Day by Day — The burdens of being parents are continuing to sink in for Sam and Zed. The twin girls have them thinking about protecting them from boys, recycling, and Clinton's attacks on kindergarten essays. We've also got some good old politics in the form of the media's usual tricks.

Scary Go Round — Abandoned by her friends, Shelley meets up with Shelby Winner and an unlikely friendship forms, with the usual friendship rituals: the karaoke, the limbo contest, and the foiling of the mistaken-identity attacker with a fire extinguisher.

Dominic Deegan — Milov's letter to Jayden offers forgiveness, but he needs some time apart to deal with his own issues. It's not enough to completely stop Siegfried, as he's just going after easier targets now. His boss, Karnak, is more concerned about the infernomancer who's stealing his power. Meanwhile, the Knights of Callan have been disbanded and replaced by battlecasters, which everyone thinks is a pretty bad idea. This causes Reinholdt to show up looking for redemption.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — Just two comics, Mike giving his last advice to Marsha, and asking for forgiveness. When she shows up to strangle April, it seems that Mike's request for forgiveness is more on her mind ("Forgive him for WHAT, April??") than the whole April stabbing Mike thing. Marsha never took unfaithfulness well.

Schlock Mercenary — We get a glimpse of the forces after the Touch-and-Go and find out that Ennesby has fallen into their trap. And he's the smart one when compared to Tagon and Schlock, who seem likely to fall into more obvious traps. All in all, it encourages Tagon to dump his cargo on Petey and get his payment, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

Wow, it's been three weeks since the last update. That's pretty bad--I'll have to try to do better in the future.

Sluggy Freelance — Torg's having a tough time dealing with Zoe being bald, but a little hoverbike racing helps to overcome that. In fact, hoverbikes and pizza heals all wounds, and the gang's all, or at least mostly, friends again. Which is good, because Gwynn has a plan to recover her monkeys. It just didn't involve her being infected by a zombie. Or being held in their underground lair, where Jane explains her whole smart zombie deal. It apparently has something to do with some very naive circus performers and a madame Bu-bu.

Day by Day — The Hillarinator runs into some software bugs while the whole lot of them drive Sam to the hospital so she can have her twins. Baby girls. Now Zed and Sam have to deal with the joys of parenthood... too bad they can't stay on the really good drugs. The babies start to give Jan ideas, which is making Damon just a wee bit nervous.

Scary Go Round — Shelley Winters is off to Christmas Island with some good friends and an expense account that just won't quit. Things are looking good. But what'll she do when the expense account gets canceled?

Dominic Deegan — The attempts to counter Siegfried keep coming up short. He has all sorts of power now, and he's using it to torment his old friends. He nearly turns Jayden to his side, before Nimmel shows her what happened to send Siggy to Hell in the first place. Fortunately, Dominic's mother comes along to help her son and his friends out.

College Roomies from Hell!!! — April's remembering how the situation got this way. It's bad. It's really, really bad. She's a murderer now, and various and sundry scary people are coming to get her. Marsha among them. So's Blue and the Dragon. The problem is that when they do come to kill her, they'll be condemning their own soul. Especially if someone accidentally kills June instead of April. Of course, the fun part is that it looks like April's pregnant. With possessed Mike's baby. Okay, this looks bad.

Schlock Mercenary — Tagon's gotten together the smartest folk on the ship to try to figure out what to do with Xinchub. They think it's about immortality. Meanwhile, TAG and Ennesby are having their own powwow, and they think they have a better line on it than the rest of the crew. Actually talking to Xinchub reveals a lot, especially about the undead warmongering supersoldiers. And then we get a peek at the folks who are looking for the information to make them.