Z7‘s 300th strip went up this past Monday! (Not counting the nine Station V3 strips it started out with, which introduced the station – as V3-b – as a temporary substitute for V3, and Gordon as a temporary substitute for Floyd.)

Z7 was originally hosted on DrunkDuck – in fact, I started it partly as a way to give that a try after meeting Chuck and Steve Rowles at one of their Gods of Arr-Kelaan book signings at the Barnes & Noble in Wilkes-Barre. But DrunkDuck went down for a while last year, I had signed up with a Jatol Economy hosting plan for ComicOstrich (and Station V3 a couple months later when I moved off ComicGenesis), and I had written a comic automation script I was using for a V3 and Z7 mirror, so I just moved Z7 over to its current location, and it’s still going.

So if you enjoy V3 and haven’t read Z7 yet (or even if you have!), take a look!

Three new bonus strips up today: A badly translated preview of tomorrow’s strip, Mr. Substitute subscribes to a magazine, and one of the Rumormongers gets the voting wrong for Rumormonger Idol. Thank You to all of you who have been supporting Station V3 with your votes!

If you have a request for a bonus you’d like to see, you can post it on the forum, and if there’s a contestant you’d like to see kicked off Rumormonger Idol, you can vote in the poll! (Which I’ll probably end some time this weekend, with results to follow.)

Station V3 will not be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. And do you know where else the Winter Olympics will not be hosted? Hoth. (They missed the deadline for the bid, after all…)

If V3 did have the Olympics, Honest J!on would no doubt run another round of Rumormonger Idol against it…

Three new voting bonuses up today: An alternate version of today’s strip, a bad translation of today’s strip, and a bad translation of the alternate version of today’s strip. Thanks for voting!

(And I’ve just updated the bonus archive again with the bonus strips from Sunday.)

In case anyone was wondering if the “History of V3” strips this week are some sort of commentary on T Campbell’s “History of Webcomics” book and some of the controversy that was (is?) going around about it – they’re not. I actually had them written before I heard any of the fuss about it last week. Most likely none of you were wondering that, but I thought I’d say it anyway.

The one thing I will say about the book is that even with the webcomic characters on the cover and the title “The History of Webcomics,” somehow the way it looks makes me think “You Can Program Videogames on the Commodore 64!”

In other news, voting is open for Rumormonger Idol, and the bonus archive has been updated with everything except the three bonus strips from Sunday. (Thank You to everyone who’s been voting!)