Two new voting bonuses today - an alternate version of today's strip, and a sprite strip with a rumormonger giving his NaNoWriMo update. Thanks for voting!

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Sprite strips just got a vote in the bonus preference poll, so there are two sprite strips up as today's voting bonuses. In the first one, Linton and Ebb discuss the Chef's special. But "alternate version of a strip" also picked up another vote, putting it in the lead, so the second one is an alternate version of today's strip, with the Alternate Universe rumormonger sprites. Thanks for voting!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all the readers in the US today! (And according to the logs, that's most of you - but not all of you, so everyone else at least have a nice November 22nd!)

Today's new bonuses are a sketch with the Chef's Thanksgiving Special, and a bad translation of today's strip that manages to mangle pretty much everything except the "Here we go again..." Thanks for voting!

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So far in the bonus preference poll on the forum, "alternate version of a strip" is ahead of both bad translations and sprite strips. But... What if they were also alternate versions of a strip? Vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics to see a bad translation of a slightly alternate version of today's strip, and at buzzComix to see the sprite version.

You can see how it might be hard to interpret the poll results! (And also that it might be just a bit early to even try, since there aren't that many votes in...)

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I wound up with two slightly different ideas for today's strip - they start out pretty much the same, but go off in different directions from there. I drew both of them, so one goes up as today's strip, and the other becomes today's first voting bonus (in color!) - vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics to see that, and vote at buzzComix to see a bad translation of today's strip (in black and white!) in which even the line "Morty, you're fired" doesn't quite make it through intact. Thanks for voting!

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Today's first bonus is a sprite strip in which two rumormongers discuss novel writing, and the second bonus is a sketch in which Morty tries writing a how-to book.

As for my own progress, I've got a couple hundred words written and a vague idea of where the story might go. Which is probably about as far as I got last time I tried the NaNoWriMo bit, but this time I got there by the middle of the month instead of the end, so maybe I'm getting somewhere... And as for the other book (the first collection of Station V3 strips), I'm putting the final bits together and checking to make sure all the pages look right.

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Two new voting bonuses today - a bad translation of today's strip, and a sprite strip in which one of the rumormongers explains what happened to the Rumormonger Idol Reunion Special.

If you have a bonus request, you can post it here. If you'd like to share your opinion on what kind of bonus you like to see without having to say anything, you can vote in the poll here. If you don't have any requests or opinions, but would like to see the list of search strings that led people here last month, that's here. And if you'd like to visit the forum without doing any of that, you can do that too! Lots of options. (Which are all, of course, optional!)

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You may have noticed it's been a little quiet here lately, apart from new strips still going up every day. Due to some computer problems last month, I've switched operating systems (to Linux), and put in a new hard drive. Fortunately, this hasn't affected the update schedule here (or at the other strips in the "V3 universe") - the first thing I did was get the scanner and printer working, and the GIMP works as well as any of the programs I was using before. Also fortunately, I didn't lose any data along the way, but it did delay work on the Station V3 book, which is a little frustrating, since it was very close to being done. At this point I can start getting back in to finish work on it - It looks like I may have a few formatting issues to work out with the different program (OpenOffice) I'm using now, but hopefully it'll be ready soon.

In other book news, The Kid's Book Project is almost done, with all the pages in.

In other other news, November is National Novel Writing Month - I've signed up at nanowrimo.org, since what's one more thing not to have time for? :)

And finally, I've put up two new voting bonus sketches today - in the first one, a book is being written, and the second one is a preview of what might happen once V3's crew gets their new replacement station. Thanks for voting!

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October has ended, and November is now here. More news as this story develops.

To get things started on the comic toplists (Station V3-wise, that is), today's bonuses are a bad translation of today's strip, and a sprite strip in which two rumormongers discuss their Halloween. Thanks for voting!

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