Monday's comic ties up the Cheese Conspiracy storyline.

On Tuesday my wife and I leave on a three day trip so she can have surgery (not for anything life-threatening). I've currently got Monday and Wednesday's comic in the buffer and should add Friday's tomorrow so your comics won't be interrupted. I would appreciate it if you could throw some prayers our way for the surgery in exchange for my comics benevolence.

Next week I'll have a business trip all week (leaving Monday night, but with luck I'll have the buffer stocked for that too, since I plan to draw while my wife is in surgery. (I've been told that this surgery takes about 7+ levels of Starcraft to complete, so I should hopefully be able to get a few drawn and inked in that time).

Starting on Monday (pacific time) if you vote for us a Top Webcomics you'll get a sketch of Dee Dee to view instead of the Linda art that's been up forever and that I did not like very much. So yay for that.


Added 1/11/2009: Also, apparently our forum was set to require us to approve you.  It's still set that way but now that I know, feel free to log in and/or sign up. I approved everyone that was not obviously a spam bot.  Not a lot going on there right now, but nobody was able to get it.  Really, I just thought you all hated me. S'cool.

Added 1/11/2009 by Steve (abusing godlike forum permissons): Register for the forums, and post in the new forum section for site suggestions/ideas! Feel free to suggest that we upgrade the forum to something more modern.


Added 1/13/2009 by Matt: My wife's surgery went well, though anesthesia decided to strike her a bit heavily with nausea afterwords they are making her stay the night. Thanks for your well-wishing and prayers.

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My new update schedule for 2010 (two thousand ten, no ands!) is as follows: Randomly thrice weekly.

To put it more clearly, but less awesomely, I will post three comics per week, but I will not guarantee my update days.  I won't post comics on weekdays (unless to post a Friday comic late or something) so in the span of Monday through Friday, expect to see comics on three of those days!

This isn't a ploy to have you check the site everyday, but rather the brutal nature of the fact that sometimes I will manage to leave all my drawing implements somewhere I am not and/or totally forget we have to go spelunking with the Smiths in the evening, immediately after our full-contact basket weaving classes and thus not be able to color it at all after work.

Something like that.

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So I am really digging the new Space Police LEGO sets that debuted last year.  For the most part they are well done and hearken back to the old space days.

I went to Toys R Us today to pick up 5980 Squidman's Pitstop today, since TRU is pretty much the only place that seems to carry it (and without the usual TRU price markup too!), and discovered that they also had the Star Wars Home One Mon Calamari Star Cruiser discounted by $30 so I picked that up too.

I dropped a lot of money on LEGO sets today. Yeouch! But hey. LEGO Admiral Ackbar and Lando and Mon Mothma? Awesome.

Squidman's Pitstop oozes that bad guy repair shop feel.  Secret missile launchers and a tool rack that flips over to reveal a weapons rack and tons of other stuff.  The little ships somewhat leave things to be desired (except Snake's little ship, which is pretty awesome), but overall this is a fantastic play set. I wish I were a kid again (or I wish I had kids so that I wouldn't look silly actually playing with the sets), because this would be completely supercool to play with.

Now I just need to get around to getting the last two Space Police sets I need, Space Truck Getaway (aka Container Heist) and Smash & Grab.  And maybe one of the new Atlantis series's Manta Warrior mini sets to use as an extra bad guy to put in the Galactic Enforcer's prison pods.

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I am debating going back and redrawing the "classic" Fodi strips.  I was reading through the classic archive a bit and realized that some of the story there is really not too bad, and since it forms the backstory of the current archive, it'd be really nice if it all looked more like the Fodi of today.

This would naturally be a gradual process, with the goal being eventually to recombine the archives again to form one whole cohesive story.

I'm not sure if I should keep the old versions around somewhere or just let them go by the wayside, however. What do you all think?

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So I'm getting back into the comics groove. It feels good. I hope you'll all enjoy this series and the next.  Beyond new comics though, we'll have some additional things of interest.

1. Twitter! There's a twitter feed on the sidebar now. you should follow it. *nods Sagely*  Most of the time it'll probably be me tweeting, but you may occasionally see a Steve tweet. They are rare and magical.
2. RSS feed works again.  It'll always contain the last five comics and last five news posts.  It updates 2 minutes after midnight.

Steve is plotting a grand update on the backend site code. This should allow for some nice features later on. We'll keep you posted.

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