A little background information on how I draw the strip: The first part is on the computer, where I type the words into empty panels. I print this out, draw the strip in the panels, and scan it back in.

This weekend the printer seemed to be running a little low on ink – last time this happened, I discovered printer cartridges for it aren’t as easily available as they used to be, so I used a refill kit instead. I refilled the cartridge again, but the ink doesn’t seem to want to come out. At least not on the paper… on my fingers is another story. Since I can get a new (and faster) printer for less than the cost of ordering a pair of new cartridges online, I suspect that’s what I’ll be doing.

I’ve updated the bonus archive again, adding half a dozen recent bonuses – five strips and the “real life” photo of Ebb doing tech support. (This brings the bonus archive up to date with everything except the current voting bonuses.)

I still haven’t added the guys on the planet to the cast page… I should do that soon. In the meantime, today’s bonus is a scene from the planet.

Station V3 is somewhere around the 500 strip mark. The KeenSpace guide had it at 500 strips yesterday. It may be a strip or two under if you subtract the occasional guest strip… or way over if you include the bonus strips!

Looks like buzzComix is having some problems… so if you want to see the new bonus picture, it’s the voting incentive at TopWebcomics now.