It's been over a week since the last ones went up, so it's time for some new voting bonuses! Two new sprite strips are up today - In the first one, part of the past/future Ebb/Neap situation is figured out, and in the second one, it gets a whole lot more confusing. Thanks for voting!

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The host I'm on was doing some emergency server maintenance over the weekend, so you may have had problems connecting to the site (I did) - but everything should be working now.

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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.)

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Two new voting bonuses today - A bad translation of today's strip, and a sprite strip in which the rumormongers try to sort out the past and future Ebbs. Thanks to everyone who's been voting and keeping Station V3 in the top 100 on the lists, and if you've got a request for a future bonus, you can post it here on the forum!

(And if it's past bonuses you're after, most of those can be seen here.)

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Last January I made some comic-related New Year's Resolutions. I think for the most part I managed to keep them:

• Update Station V3 every day - yep, did that.
  
• Update Z7 at least 50 times - I wound up putting up 98 new strips and getting it back on a regular schedule.
  
• Update Ebb's Children at least 10 times - Update 13 times.
  
• Make a few changes to the site - Yep, made a few. Maybe not as many as I planned, but a few!
  
• Finish putting together the first Station V3 book - Did that! (And you can buy it here.)
  
• Keep things interesting - I certainly hope I did that!
  

...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. :)

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There are two new sprite strips up today (One at buzzComix, one at TopWebcomics), both with Ebb from the Future. Thanks for voting!

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Bonuses from the future today! (I was going to put them up a couple hours from now, but here they are at lunchtime instead...)

The first one is a sprite strip with Ebb from the future, and the second is a bad translation of today's strip. Thanks for voting!

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Time for some new voting bonuses (I hadn't updated them since last year!) - A sprite strip in which a rumormonger reappears after a New Year's Eve party, and a bad translation of today's strip. Thanks for voting!

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Happy New Year!

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