For anyone who wanted a copy of An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3 but didn’t want it on paper, you’re in luck! The book is now available from Lulu as a PDF download – it’s over 100 pages, including several month’s worth of strips (mostly from 2004), and some new material (mostly involving the Space Pod) exclusive to the book!
And for anyone who wanted the book in its printed form, you’re also in luck! That’s still available too.
I haven’t had too much to say here this month! (But there might be something soon enough.) I did renew the stationv3.com domain name for another year, and this time the comic paid for the domain name itself (and is now working on the hosting) through sales of the book – so thank you to everyone who bought a copy so far, and I hope you enjoy it!
In other news, there are two new voting bonuses today – A sprite strip in which the past/present/future Ebb/Neap situation is (sort of) resolved, and the third season of Rumormonger Idol begins. Thanks for voting!
As some of you probably know, LiveJournal has little “SnapShot” windows that pop up to give a preview of the page a link leads to. In addition to the preview, it lists some related searches. At the moment, for a link to the Station V3 book for sale at Lulu.com, it lists “Pomegranate” as one of the related searches. I’m not quite sure how it came up with that! But if you’re looking for a book to read, I’d recommend the V3 book instead of the pomegranate. On the other hand, the pomegranate would probably taste better. So if you’re hungry, eat the pomegranate. (While reading the book, for best results!)
It also listed “Dark Shadows” and “Blue Whale” as related searches. Related to each other, yes, but I’m not sure how they connect to Station V3! (Or the pomegranate.)
Last January I made some comic-related New Year’s Resolutions. I think for the most part I managed to keep them:
…And I also did a few things I hadn’t planned to do! For example, starting Silence in the Darkness on Q16, the third Station V3 spinoff. It actually had the most visitors of the four comics last month, thanks to visitors from StumbleUpon, and various German web sites, such as this one. (Though Station V3 still had the Pac-Man share of the site bandwidth pie chart, and is back in the lead this month.)
Plans for 2008 include hoping the comics will earn enough through Project Wonderful ads and book sales to pay for their hosting, doing more guest strips for other comics, and generally doing pretty much the same thing I did in 2007! (Except for putting together the first book – I’ll have to work on a second one instead.)
…So keep checking this year and see how I do, and I’ll have a followup post on the subject this time next year. 
As you can see in the photo above, Ebb is enjoying reading a copy of An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3! He’s even got two extra copies just in case something happens to the first one. He thinks it would be nice if everyone had a copy!
(He’s right, you know!)
I’m pretty happy with the way the book turned out, considering all the file had to go through to finally get uploaded! I had the original files for most of the strips I used (a few of them I re-scanned), but a lot of them needed to be tweaked a little to line up properly on the pages, and I started putting the book together over a year ago, on a different computer. The files survived the death of that computer, and I continued on this one, getting a prototype version of the book printed earlier this year. I liked the way it turned out, but I had a few things to change and/or add… A couple months later (and some hardware upgrades, and a switch from Windows XP to Linux), and it’s finally done. Hopefully when I start putting together the next one, it won’t be as complicated!
If any of you were thinking of ordering it and wanted it in time for Christmas, it’d probably be best to order it soon – according to Lulu’s holiday deadlines, the closer it gets to Christmas Eve, the more expensive the shipping options are to get it on time. I know some of you have ordered it already – let me know what you think of it when you get it!