Today’s strip gets to be its own bonus… first with an alternate drawing, and then with a bad translation (by way of German).

James Doohan has died at the age of 85. Not surprising news, since he had been in poor health (he died of pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease), but still sad to hear.

Today there are two new bonus strips up (here and here) from a request on the forum involving Mr. Maintenance Engineer’s brother. Thank You to everyone who’s been voting!

The bonus archive has been updated with all the voting bonuses except the current two. If you have a request for a bonus strip, you can post it in this thread on the forum. There are a few there I haven’t got to yet, but I don’t mind having more added to the list!

Today’s bonus at TopWebcomics is another bad translation – this time it’s today’s strip. Only one talk balloon made it through completely unscathed!

Today’s other bonus, at Webcomics List is a preview of the first panel of tomorrow’s strip, with a slight problem that I had to fix after I scanned it… In the process of drawing the strips, I start by printing out the panels with the words already in them, and then draw the characters and backgrounds in the panels. For this to work, I have to have a pretty good idea of where everyone’s going to be in the strip, so I can have the words in the right place. This time I didn’t. (But don’t worry, it’s fixed for tomorrow!)