Two more sprite bonus strips today: Floyd can tell Ebb and Linton apart (sort of), and Linton and Prentis discuss Floyd’s problem.

Rumormonger Idol Round 3 results tomorrow!

Floyd’s having some problems telling people apart in today’s three sprite-style bonus strips: He can’t tell Ebb from Neap, Linton from the pirates… or himself from his reflection in the mirror! (Not doing very well, is he?)

Two sprite-style bonus strips today: The rumormongers discuss the fact that the Rumormonger Idol Round 3 results haven’t been announced yet, and Floyd finds a way to keep the station secure without any help from Linton or Prentis. Thanks for voting!

In the second panel of today’s strip, the third planet in V3’s system was drawn by tracing the center hole of an extra copy of the Beach Boys’ mid-70s top 10 hit version of Chuck Berry’s “Rock And Roll Music” (with “The TM Song” on the flip side) that I had on the shelf near the drawing supplies. Two days ago the planet was drawn (or at least part of it was) by tracing the outer edge. And it was also used on Sunday, where the outer edge was the rumormongers’ planet, and the center hole was the gas giant off in the distance. The 45 was not harmed in the production of any of these strips. (Though like I said, this was the extra copy – a little worn. I wouldn’t have used a good one for this!)

…In case anyone was wondering!

There were two slightly different strips I had in mind for today – the one I decided to go with is the one above, and the one I didn’t – where the rumormongers get more specific about what sort of object the third planet is – is up (in color!) as one of today’s bonus strips. The other is a bad translation of today’s strip, which gets better as it goes along. Thank You to everyone who’s been voting for Station V3!