At the beginning of 2005, Station V3 was experiencing time/space disturbances. That problem was gone by the end of the year, but there were a few new problems, like the station exploding and half the crew being stuck on the disabled search mission ship. Hopefully things will go a little better for the guys on V3-A!

Things changed a bit for V3 here in the “real world,” too… the strip switched to daily color in May (with some previous months also switching to color), and moved off KeenSpace/ComicGenesis at the beginning of October. And there are more daily readers now than there were a year ago, which is a nice trend that I hope continues!

V3 hit the top 40 on the voting lists a couple times last year (including on buzzComix and Webcomics List last month), which could be one of the reasons there were more readers! To get things started this month, here are the first three voting bonuses of 2006: a post-New Year’s party strip, a picture of a rejected replacement for V3, and a bad translation of today’s strip, in which the crew flies to the station in their Double Poppet.

Thanks for reading, and I’ll try to keep things interesting in 2006!

Happy New Year!

So here we are at the end of 2005… I guess I was done with it at this point! Not that there’s much I could do about it if I wasn’t. But while I’m thinking of it, there are three new voting bonus pictures (Here, here, and here) up today on the subject of the New Year!

None of them deal with the subject of New Year’s resolutions, so if you were looking for that, check out this strip over at Zoology by Nathan Birch!

There’s an alternate version of today’s strip up as a voting bonus today, where the interview process and outcome are a little different.

The DVD I mentioned having to return the other day has been replaced with a copy that my DVD player likes – it’s a copy of “The Claws of Axos,” one of my all-time favorite Dr. Who stories, in which an organic spaceship (complete with psychedelic interior) arrives to drain the Earth of all life and energy, and it’s up to the 3rd Doctor, UNIT, and maybe the Master to stop it.

The DVD is a big improvement over the VHS release, where the 2nd and 3rd episodes had been converted from the UK’s PAL video standard to US NTSC in the 70s, converted back to PAL when the original copies were gone, and converted back to NTSC again for the video release. They’ve still gone through that process for the DVD release, but this time the NTSC back to PAL part involved a new “Reverse Standards Conversion” process used by the Dr. Who Restoration Team. They’re still not perfect (especially in the exterior scenes that were originally on film instead of video), but they’re a lot better than they were before. And the DVD’s got some fun bonus features, including some studio footage with deleted scenes and the opening title sequence with the story’s original name, “The Vampire From Space.” (Just as well they changed that…)

This might seem like an unusual Station V3 newsbox/blog post, since I’m not talking about the comic (which I hope you’re enjoying!) or the Dr. Who story being talked about most right now (the recent “Christmas Invasion,” which I haven’t seen yet), but maybe that makes a nice change?