Last month my sister gave me a stuffed Ulcer (H. pylori) microbe (one of these guys) – it looks a lot like Ebb eating spaghetti.
On that note, today’s bonuses are a sketch of Ebb and Neap at dinner, a photo comparison of Ebb with the ulcer microbe, and if you don’t like the Ebb=Ulcer idea, a photo of Ebb as a Christmas ornament. 
Also, I finally put up a new Ebb’s Children strip the other day!
Rob Hamm of Blue Crash Kit, a daily comic about three furry superheroes (in an alternate reality based on “Firefly” in the current storyline), put out a call for guest strips while the artist, Shannon Henry, is in the hospital – I sent them one, which is up today. Get well soon, Shannon!
Since I use blogger.com for the Station V3 “news” entries here, Station V3 gets tracked by some sites as a blog. It must seem like a strange sort of blog… Most of the time I’m just talking about this comic strip I draw, how there’s new voting bonuses for it, and that sort of thing, with an occasional sci-fi TV, 60s rock, or holiday greeting message for variety!
Anyway…
The alternate story where Linton loses the simulation tournament continues with some new voting bonuses today – an alternate version of yesterday’s strip, an alternate version of today’s strip, and an extra panel that answers a question you might have after seeing the two alternate strips. Thanks for voting!
I’ve made several banners for Station V3, but only one link button, and that was in 2003… I figured it was time for a few new ones!
So if you want to put up a link to Station V3 somewhere, you can download one of these to use.
Two new bonuses today, by request… An alternate version of this week’s events in V3. If Linton hadn’t won the tournament, today’s strip would look something like this, and the simulation would have looked a bit like this!
Here it is, December already! It’s been an interesting year for Station V3, both in the comic (where the station’s still missing!) and for the site, which moved off ComicGenesis in September. According to the site logs, people are still reading, which is good – I’m glad people like to read the strips I put online every day, so thanks for reading! Also, last month V3 hit the top 40 on Webcomics List and buzzComix, and near the top 50 on TopWebcomics. The NaNoWriMo thing didn’t go too far, but it’s not a total loss! (More on that at some point…) And there are over 200 V3 strip transcriptions up on Oh No Robot.
To get things started with the voting for this month, here’s a bonus strip (by request) in which Floyd helps the computer keep its circuits warm. (In an interesting coincidence, I heard “Fire” by Crazy World of Arthur Brown on the radio as I was drawing this one…) Also, Linton in a very unusual security simulation, and a bad translation of today’s strip. (The fourth panel comes out unchanged, but the third panel is interesting… and I like “escaping case” for “escape pod!”) Thanks for voting!