2009/12/03   Interview
The Xcentrikz website, in addition to having the comic, has a lot of interesting interviews with other webcomic creators, and one of the ones they did recently was with me - take a look!

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2009/09/17   The Edible Version of Station V3
Station V3: The Birthday Cake!



I'm not sure if it counts as fan art or dessert (or both?), but I'd like to thank my brother Chris for making this for my birthday yesterday!

(And it tasted good, too!)

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2009/03/21   Strange coincidence, update, random news
In yesterday's strip (3/20), a rumormonger added two and two to get 4,376. I had considered several other numbers - like 22, for example - before deciding on a number that included the answer and the phone exchange of somewhere I used to live. Coincidentally, as pointed out by a reader, the asteroid 4376 Shigemori was discovered on 3/20/1987 - 22 years ago. Maybe I meant to do that?

In other site news, I've updated the links page, and added another page with links to fellow Palace in the Sky comics.

And in other non-Station V3 webcomic news:

Robert Cook's comic The Mansion of E recently hit the 2,000 strip mark. Congratulations, Robert!

While there haven't been any new episodes of PodWarp 1999 uploaded since January, it's not dead yet! There are more episodes on the way. If you have any suggestions for a future episode, you can post them on the PodWarp forum. Meanwhile, Mark Mekkes and I were among the people on the latest live episode of The Gigcast.

And speaking of PodWarp, fellow PodWarper Ben Paddon has put out a Jump Leads book! Fun stuff.

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2008/12/05   New Sites and Things
There's a new webcomic rating site that started up recently - Is It Funny Today? Instead of voting for a site as a whole, you see individual strips, and vote on whether not you think they're funny. You can vote from a list, or browse through random strips. Station V3 is one of the comics on their list (in the story comics section), so if you think any of the strips on their list are funny (today and the past few days), you can vote yes. Or if not, vote no! (I'm trying for "yes," of course, but there's always a chance my "yes" is someone else's "definitely not.")

Another new site (though not a webcomic one): The guys behind Star Pirates have come out with another game - Spy Battle 2165. If you liked Star Pirates, give this one a try!

And since I titled this post "New Sites and Things," here are two Things: an alternate, more stand-alone version of today's strip up as the new voting bonus at TopWebcomics, and a bad translation of today's strip up at buzzComix!

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2008/08/29   The Starlost
Someone wants me to buy more DVDs, apparently... First they announce Quark is being released, now it's The Starlost!

(Now, if they announce the Logan's Run TV series is coming out next, I'll know something funny is going on...)

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2008/08/15   And in other news...
V3 reader Daniel Ellingson has created some interesting things with the Spore Creature Creator - including a very nice version of Julius the Rumormonger!

In addition to Julius, today's comic reveals that one of the other rumormongers is named Marco, and yesterday's revealed that one of them is named Kyle. (There's a little trivia question about Kyle on the forum!)

Silence in the Darkness on Q16 recently had its 500th strip go up! (Still dark - but not always silent.)

Two new episodes of PodWarp 1999 have gone up recently - a short Episode 22 with just me, Mark Mekkes, and guest Aaron Lewis, and a regular-length Episode 23 with the regular PodWarp crew!

And finally, I've updated the voting bonuses - there's a sprite strip up at TopWebcomics, and a bad translation of today's strip up at the all-new redesigned buzzComix. Thanks for voting!

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2008/08/06   Quark
I had been wondering if this would ever come out on DVD, since 1978 sci-fi sitcoms that lasted eight episodes aren't likely to be high up on any company's list of priorities... But apparently it is! Quark is coming out on DVD this October. It'll be strange to see it with a decent picture and without commercials!

("Quark is brought to you by... Dawn. Dawn takes grease out of your way!")

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2008/07/28   Rumormongers Are Go!
If you've joined Star Pirates (or you're going to) and now you're looking for a fleet to join, the Rumormongers fleet is the one for you! In addition to being the "official" Station V3 fleet, its abbreviation is "RUM" - and how much more appropriately pirate-y can you get?

For today's new voting bonus, there's a sprite strip in which one of the Rumormongers is considering joining the fleet while he waits for the next round of Rumormonger Idol to start!

And on a completely different note, the fifth episode of The Sequential Artists' Pub is up! I was there again for this one - lots of interesting topics covered, like a cartoonists' public persona, pen names, mirror sites, the use of RSS feeds (Station V3 has one) and blogs on comic sites (like this one you're reading right now).

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2008/07/24   Star Pirates!
I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to those of you reading this that I'm currently playing Star Pirates - you've probably noticed the ad (featuring the Pirates and the Rumormongers) currently running on the site! (If you haven't, go back to the top of the page and take a look!) It's a browser-based game in a sci-fi future setting, with gangs of Star Pirates flying around the solar system, attacking each other, looting, scavenging, gambling, mining, exploring, and all those fun things you do once the Earth has been destroyed! Apart from the fact that it's online and has other people playing it at the same time, it reminds me (in a good way!) of some of the Commodore 64 games I used to play.

The guys there emailed me last week and asked about the possibility of having me create a custom ad for them featuring some of the V3 characters. So I've been working on that since then - drawing the bits for the ad, animating them, coloring them, etc. Of course it involved a lot of research, too, since I had to make sure any game details I mentioned in the ad were accurate. (And even though the ad's done, I'm still doing that research...)

I'm not quite as far along in the game as the Rumormongers in the ad are, but I'm getting there... My next step will have to be to form a fleet to do battle with the other sci-fi webcomic fleets there!

Oh, and if you do join (which is free!), I certainly wouldn't mind if you used my referral code (which is 9338)!

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2008/07/09   ComicSpace
A few of you may already know this - I have a ComicSpace page, which I rarely checked, and updated even less often. But I logged in tonight, and finally got around to making a few changes, including adding a gallery of sample strips for Station V3, Z7, Ebb's Children, and Silence in the Darkness on Q16. Check it out, especially if you're also on ComicSpace and think you might like to add a gallery like that to your favorites (and/or me as a friend) - and if you have a favorite V3 (or Z7, Ebb's Children, Q16) strip you think should definitely be in that gallery, let me know!

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2008/06/28   Further Adventures in Podcasting
Last night I took part in Krishna Sadasivam's podcast, The Sequential Artists' Pub. Lots of interesting topics were discussed, such as tools and techniques, drawing tablets, site statistics, cartoonist resources, and wearing hats!

(My contribution is a bit limited, due to some connection problems. TalkShoe's "ShoePhone" didn't want to let me talk - it'd tell me I was connected, but it's also tell me I wasn't on the call. Eventually I wound up installing Gizmo, and finally managed to connect that way - so I don't say anything until about 40 minutes in, and later on my connection gets garbled. Hopefully I'll have better luck next time!)

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2008/06/26   Welcome New Readers!
Since there seem to be a lot of people reading at the moment, I thought I'd take the opportunity to welcome any of you who happen to be new readers coming in from StumbleUpon, what appears to be the most successful ad campaign I've run on Project Wonderful, and of course anywhere else, too...

Welcome!

Make yourself at home, check out the three spinoffs, tell a friend about Station V3, say hello on the forum, get a copy of the book... Or (most importantly) just enjoy reading!

And for anyone who isn't a new reader (and has read this blog post this far anyway), thank YOU for reading, too!

In other news, the 'official' version of the latest episode of PodWarp 1999 ("Dial F for Frankenstein" - the call-in show episode) is up on the site now. I was using the same headset as on the past few episodes, but on a different computer, and that seems to have worked much better. (So now you get to hear what I actually sound like!)

Finally, in voting bonus news, I finally closed the Rumormonger Idol round 1 poll - the results are up as today's first bonus, and some parting words from the loser are up as the second one.

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2008/06/22   Technical Difficulty Day
This morning, there was a power blink at home, and the computer reset itself.

At work, I got a call from a remote site that also had a power blink, and they were having problems with a printer because of it.

Later in the day, due to some server configuration work being done, stationv3.com was unavailable for a little while.

Tonight we had our first PodWarp 1999 call-in show - and Talkshoe froze up on us.

Then after that, a thunderstorm knocked me offline for about half an hour.

The site should update automatically at its usual time (about two hours from now), and you can see tomorrow's strip then. But if anything goes wrong with that, I think I'm going to have to blame Technical Difficulty Day!

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2008/06/06   Glass Prism


File this one under "Bands I never thought I'd get to see" - I've got my tickets for the Glass Prism concert at the Scranton Cultural Center tomorrow!

(It's not the first time they've played there - they opened for Vanilla Fudge there about 40 years ago!)

They recorded two albums for RCA - Their first album, "Poe through the Glass Prism," was released in 1969, and featured (as you might expect from the title) the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe set to rock music. "The Raven" was released as a single, and was a big hit locally. They wrote their own lyrics for the second album, "On Joy And Sorrow," released in 1970, but the sound was still similar - guitar, bass, drums, and organ. From what I've read, they'll be playing a 90-minute set, with songs from both albums, and some new material.

(And hopefully Ebb won't steal the tickets on me!)

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2008/05/20   The other Idol show
So, that "Idol" show on TV is winding down for the season... My prediction (really going out on a limb here) is that someone named "David" will win.

But as that one winds down, season 3 of Rumormonger Idol gets round 1 started with the first two contestants, up as today's new voting bonuses: Contestant 1 and Contestant 2!

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2008/05/10   And in conclusion...
Yesterday's guest strip was from Robert Cook of The Mansion of E (it wouldn't be a proper guest week here without his contribution!), and guest week concludes today with a guest strip from Mark Mekkes of Zortic. I'd like to thank them again, and everyone else (Krishna Sadasivam, Kristina Foster, Aaron Lewis, the Fuzznuts crew, and Andreas Gustafsson) who contributed to this year's guest week!

In other guest art news, there's a strip (well, one big panel) I drew up now at Jump Leads!

And in unrelated news, I'd like to thank the "Anonymous Benefactors" who have been helping transcribe the Station V3 archives at Oh No Robot - over 82% of the strips are transcribed and searchable now!

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2008/03/21   Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur C. Clarke died earlier this week at the age of 90 - the last of science fiction's "Big Three."

I'm not sure what to say besides the obvious (he'll be missed), so here's a picture of a monolith instead:



Get enough of them together in the right spot and they'll ignite Jupiter!

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2008/03/09   Adventures in Podcasting
Last month, Ben Paddon of the comic Jump Leads invited me to join him, Tauhid Bondia (Good Ship Chronicles), Jim Francis (Outsider), and Mark Mekkes (Zortic) weekly for a sci-fi webcomic podcast, which we've named PodWarp 1999.

The first installments of the podcast are now online for all to hear - if you're the sort of person who enjoys sci-fi and/or webcomics (and I'm assuming most of you reading this probably are!), listen to an episode or four and let us know what you think!

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2008/02/28   Mike Smith, R.I.P.
Mike Smith, the lead singer and keyboard player of the Dave Clark Five, has died of pneumonia at the age of 64, less than two weeks before the group's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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2008/01/24   Related: Pomegranate
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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2007/12/30   Answering my email in public
It occurs to me that some of the things I said in replies to recent email might be of interest to some more of you, so:

If you tried registering for the forum but never got your activation email, check to see if it got filtered as spam. If you still can't find it, email me and I'll activate your account.

And:

There is an RSS feed of Station V3, at http://www.stationv3.com/comic.xml.

Also:

Someone is around the corner from my house with something that has a very loud engine - like a snowmobile, except there really isn't enough snow for that right now. It's very annoying.

(Okay, that last one wasn't really a reply to anybody's email. But it could have been!)

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2007/12/13   Glad All Over


A little bit of news that has nothing to do with the comic - after being nominated three years in a row, The Dave Clark Five will finally be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame!

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2007/10/28   Grass Roots
I've now heard two members of the Grass Roots sing their 1968 hit "Midnight Confessions" - just not at the same time. Rob Grill came around with his current version of the group for a concert a couple years ago, and Creed Bratton sang it last night at the Office convention going on this weekend. (And both versions were good!)

On a not-exactly-related note, today's first bonus is the return (sort of) of the Rumormonger Idol Reunion Special, and the second one is a sprite strip in which two rumormongers discuss the special (but one of them may have been watching something else). Thanks for voting!

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2007/10/16   Oh good!
The Oh No Robot transcription buttons seem to be working again, so if you see any comics in the archives that need transcribing that you'd like to transcribe, feel free!

In other news, I've updated the bonus archive with everything up to (and including) the current two bonuses, so if you've missed any, you can see them now. (And Thank You to everyone who's been voting so far this month!)

And in other other news, that KeenSpace sampler comic book (with my autograph) from the 2004 Free Comic Book Day that was up on eBay wound up going for $4. So much for my plan to get rich by signing any copies I might have and auctioning them off... :)

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2007/10/13   Oh no!
Well, hopefully the motivational poster bonus the other day DIDN'T motivate any of you to enter any strip transcriptions for Station V3 at Oh No Robot, since the transcription entry seems to be having some technical difficulties right now, and all the transcription buttons have disappeared. (Fortunately, the transcriptions already entered haven't, so you can still search them.)

Speaking of technical difficulties, in today's first bonus strip, the Rumormonger Idol Reunion Special comes back from theirs, and today's second bonus is a bad translation of today's strip. Thanks for voting!

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2007/10/10   More motivation
Two new bonuses today: a bad translation of today's strip, and another rumormonger motivational poster.

I don't know how motivated any of you might be feeling after seeing that poster, but just in case you are, there are only around 300 strips in the archive that still need transcribing! Or you could just tell all your friends about Station V3! Or have a look at Z7, Ebb's Children, and Silence in the Darkness on Q16! Or if you've got your own comic, get a rumor for it!

But if you're not motivated after seeing it, thanks for voting, anyway. :)

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2007/10/06   Interesting auction
An interesting eBay auction was pointed out to me today - an autographed copy of From Pixels To Paper, the 2004 KeenSpace Free Comic Book Day book. What I find interesting is that it's my autograph! And yes, it's genuine. (As if someone would fake that!) I'm not sure how much of a selling point that's going to be, but I'll be interested to see how it does.

In semi-related news, the bonus archive (where you can see my page from the book and the picture of Ebb and Floyd from the back cover) has been updated with the two dozen bonuses that went up since the last time I updated it, not including the current two.

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2007/07/07   Numbers
Three sevens in today's date.

Four strips I updated today - this one (obviously!), Z7, Ebb's Children, and Silence in the Darkness on Q16.

Two new sprite voting bonus strips today - here and here. (Thanks for voting!)

1400+ strips up at Robert Cook's fantastic comic The Mansion of E! (Congratulations, Robert!)

Five items in this list!

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2007/06/29   The Kid's Book Project
Here's something I meant to mention earlier this week:



The Kid's Book Project, set up by Mike Rouse-Deane involves over 50 webcomic artists (including me) coming up with a story in which one group works from the beginning of the book to the middle, only seeing the page before theirs, and another group works from the end to the beginning, only seeing the page after theirs. And then some lucky person gets to tie the two halves together! It can be preordered now - It's £6 (around $12) plus shipping, and the profits are going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Its planned release date is this December. I've already done my page (and seen the one before it), and I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes out. :)

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