Round 1 of Rumormonger Idol continues today, with Contestant Three and Contestant Four up as today’s voting bonuses!

And getting back to Commodore Decker for a moment, apparently “The Doomsday Machine” is the next remastered Star Trek episode coming up! I haven’t seen any of the remastered episodes yet, but some of the preview pictures look interesting. (I’m not sure if I’d prefer seeing the original plastic Enterprise model and blow-torch effects on the episode or the computer-generated replacements, but I guess it’s nice to have the choice!)

Round 1 of Rumormonger Idol is underway! Vote for Station V3 today at buzzComix and TopWebcomics and see Contestant One and Contestant Two!

The other four contestants will be appearing the next few days, and after that the round 1 “who gets kicked off” poll will go up. And in the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts on them!

The recent end-of-the-universe reality blink for Station V3 has also affected things in Z7 and Ebb’s Children!

(And yes… that means I did finally update Ebb’s Children!)

There are two new sprite bonus strips up today – in the first one, a rumormonger wearing a hat gives his reaction to this year’s Rumormonger Idol contestants, and in the second one, Linton has a few thoughts on them.

And in case you didn’t see them, here they are:

What do you think of them?

I had a feeling I wasn’t getting it quite right…

In the alternate version of yesterday’s strip, Linton’s response to being told there is no third planet is “You think I don’t know that?!” And of course, in the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine, Commodore Decker’s line upon being told the third planet he beamed his crew down to isn’t there, his response is “Don’t you think I know that?!”

Oh well… I did say it was “Commodore Decker-style,” not an exact quote.

And in completely unrelated news, the groundhog didn’t see his shadow today.