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September State of the Station

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

August was a pretty busy month here – a lot of people reading through the archives lately. New readers? Looking for answers for the trivia quiz? Going back and re-reading some of your favorite strips? Whoever you are and whatever the reason, thanks for reading! And point your friends here if you think they’ll like it! (If not, maybe some new friends…?)

So, about the Station V3 book, and that trivia quiz… Since this is September 1st, I can tell you someone has posted the right answers to the quiz, and will be getting a copy of the ‘prototype space pod’ version of the book. And since September 1st isn’t over yet, you can go see those right answers, post them yourself, and win a copy of the photocopied-and-stapled Station V3 mini-comic I put together for this year’s Free Comic Book Day, featuring a slightly revised Third Planet story. Do it now! Or if you’d rather wait for the book, it’ll be going on sale later this month. (Of course, you can always get both… That’s allowed!)

On the technical side of things, the host I’m on seems to be having a couple problems today – which fortunately aren’t affecting things here at this point, but if the site is suddenly gone, that may be the reason. (Of course, if it *is* gone, you most likely aren’t reading this.) The LiveJournal feed should be unaffected even if it does disappear, though, so you can always check that. I’ll try to get everything back up and running as soon as possible if it does go zap.

And finally, a big Thank You to everyone who voted for Station V3 last month and kept the comic in the Top 100 on TopWebcomics and buzzComix – it does seem to help bring in at least a few new visitors, according to the site logs! I’ve got two new bonuses up today to get this month started: A sprite strip in which Linton is not especially pleased with how he did in the first round of the Security Simulation Tournament, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Thanks for voting, and if you have a bonus request, let me know!

Contest – Win a Station V3 book!

Monday, August 20th, 2007

So, about that “secret project” I mentioned a week or so ago… The first copies arrived the other day!

I started putting some files together for a Station V3 book last year – fortunately, the files survived a couple computer problems, and I got around to finishing the initial version of it (“A Prototype Space Pod Visits Station V3!”) this month!

It’s 100 pages – mostly a collection of strips from 2004, with a few earlier strips and also some new material. Before it goes on sale, there are a few things I’m going to add/change/delete – but you can win a copy of this version by being the first one to get all the answers right in the trivia quiz on the forum!

Book of the Day

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

(Apparently Ebb didn’t get the message about Harry Potter…)

Today at Black Diamond Antiques at the Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, PA, I was looking through some books at one of the booths – a lot of science fiction (I was hoping maybe I’d find “The Space Barbarians” by Tom Godwin, but no such luck), and a lot of TV show tie-in books. And of course a lot of overlap between the two – mostly Star Trek, of course, but there were also a few (original) Battlestar Galactica books, and surprisingly, a lot of Space: 1999 books!

I wound up buying “The Space Guardians” (seen above with Ebb). One reason I picked that one was the fact that one of the episodes novelized in it is “Force of Life,” which is one of my favorites from the first season. And it was also the cheapest one they had. :)