Updated July 2, 2008; 12:46pm MST

Sluggy Freelance Guest Week July 7-13

Yes folks, we'll be basking in Teh Nifty over at Pete Abrams' Sluggy Freelance next week! Witness the horrors we unleash upon his unsuspecting characters.

Also this Nick guy who's been appearing in our strip is a real person who was kind enough to pay real, blood-sweat-and-tears ducats to the Balticon charity auction for the dubious distinction. And just look at what we've been doing to him in effigy for it! But seriously, thanks for donating to a good charity, Nick! You iz awesome!

And a pleasant 2008 to you all...

Surprise, surprise: I decided to change my section of the rant. :) As one of our friends pointed out at Rising Star this past year, the hell listed here was about the stalest hell around.

I can't say that I'm too sad to see the back-end of 2007; around October, things got rather bad for me personally and just kept going bad, culminating in the loss of my laptop. (No, I didn't physically lose it, but the strip where Tanya's computer gets fried is painfully autobiographical.) The strips since then have been written on my work machine, but I do miss having the laptop right there with me.

2008... hard to say what's really in store for us or the FG gang. We've got threads to tie up and new characters to round out. We're hoping to be a little more active out in the webcomic world and, if nothing else, produce at least one damn podcast this year. Our first two conventions this year are Marscon in VA Beach and Katsucon in DC, so we hope to see folks there. I'd also like to start running a small review section for genre webcomics with the first choice being horror; if you have a strip you think we'd all enjoy, please send your suggestions to the e-mail address in the paragraph below.

By the by, we're still looking for people to help us edit the third arc; if you're interested, drop me a line at barb.fischer at gmail.com. We could also use suggestions for who to bug about writing a foreword. I think the only guidelines for that is 1) they should have some knowledge of who we are and 2) they should vaguely like us. Somehow the idea of the book front saying "These guys suck -- if you see them, you should hit them with a large fish!" doesn't send the right message. :D

More as more occurs...

Our special strips in case you missed them...

• April Fools! Here are our 2003, 2004, 2005 bits.
• Avast! In honor of "International Talk Like a Pirate" day, we provided an extra strip; get out and be flyin' your pirate colors!.
• Boo! Our special Halloween strip with contest winner David Muniak..
• Happy V-Day! This was from the Comixpedia Blind Date with me doing the adaptation and the magnificent Sahsha Andrade from Nekko and Joruba doing the art..
• Neko the Kitty goodness! Our guest strip at Neko the Kitty..
• One hundred strips! Our 100th strip celebration graphic.
• Web Comic Awareness Day! Here's our 2003, 2004, and 2006 strips.

Pooshing de Shiiiiny Buttons

We've been out of the voting races for a while, but keep an eye on this section for updates. :)