Station V3

The Station, The Galaxy, and Other Things

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:53:00 +0000

You wouldn't know it from the amount I've been posting on the blog here lately, but the past few months have been the busiest in terms of visitors/site traffic/etc. since the comic started! So I'd like to say hello to all the new readers, and thank everyone for reading! (Hello! Thank you!)

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day (or today, depending on when you read this) - In previous years I'd sometimes bring a photocopied and stapled Station V3 mini-comic to Comics on the Green and Unknown Comics, and they'd be nice enough to let me put it out on the table with the other free comics. However, since a good number of you don't happen to live in Northeast Pennsylvania, this year instead you can download the PDF version of An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3 for free!

In other news, coming up on May 6, Station V3 turns 7! In addition to the (virtual) cake and ice cream, the annual guest strip week will be coming up the following Sunday to celebrate!

And finally, there's a new bonus strip up to see when you vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics - by request, the station's original Plant is back for revenge!

Fan Art

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:46:00 +0000

Some very nice art received recently from reader Archevogel! (Click to see full size.)

Cameo, Wallpaper, and Bonus

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:48:00 +0000

The Cameo: A Rumormonger recently put in a brief appearance in AA Vrooman's comic a2alien (along with a few aliens from some other comics)!

The Wallpaper: Kent Paul Dolan recently sent some very nice desktop wallpaper he made from this Sunday strip:

(Click to see the full-size version!)

The Bonus: I recently found a page of strips sketched out for the Escape Pods in the Swamp storyline from last year - some used, some not. One of the sketches is now up as the new bonus at TopWebcomics - vote and see!

Webcomic News

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:40:00 +0000

The results are in for the 2009 Webcomic List Awards! Lots of good comics were nominated - I took part as one of the judges for the Best New Comic, Best Gag-A-Day, and Best Comic categories.

And in other webcomic news, this week marks the 10th anniversary of Zortic, by fellow PodWarper Mark Mekkes!

A distraction from the Real Issue

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:38:00 +0000

The "real issue" for the guys in and around Station V3 (and all the distractions from it) has been mentioned several times recently - reader Timo Frenay sent in a strip where two of the rumormongers discuss it some more, and one of them comes to an interesting conclusion. Take a look!

Meanwhile, in the Floyd Dimension...

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:43:00 +0000

It's been a while since I put up a new bonus strip, so there's a new one today - the Floyd Dimension discusses Alternate Floyd's visit to V3. Vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics and see it now!

Happy New Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Q16 Milestone

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:51:00 +0000

There's a milestone reached in the Station V3 universe today - Silence in the Darkness on Q16 had its 1,000th strip go up today!

(Most of them are dark, and many are also silent - but there are 1,000 of them!)

Secret Santa!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:22:00 +0000

I took part in a Web Comic Secret Santa exchange this year, and got a very nice comic from Jessica Perrie of Lusus Naturae - see the rest of it here! I sent a strip to Alice Otter, which you can currently see at the Secret Santa site.

Season's Greetings

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Merry Christmas if you're celebrating it, Enjoyable December 25th if you're not!

Mansion Pirates!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:40:00 +0000

In a flashback scene in today's strip at The Mansion of E, it's revealed that the space pirates once visited there. Take a look, if you haven't seen it already! (Or even if you have - the Mansion of E is always worth visiting!)

Beethoven!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:52:00 +0000

A little late, but it's still December 16th here... So Happy Beethoven's Birthday!

Lots of Strips

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Here's something that hasn't happened in a while... Station V3 and all three spinoffs have new strips up today! (Ebb's Children updated for the second time this year... I really should update that a little more often.)

And if four new strips in the V3 universe isn't enough for you, vote for Station V3 today at TopWebcomics and see today's fifth strip - a visit to the Floyd Dimension!

Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:52:00 +0000

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!

Black Friday Book Sale!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Today through the end of the month, An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3! is on sale for $8.88, and you can get another 10% off that by using the coupon code GREATBOOK when you order!

Happy Thanksgiving!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:56:00 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bonus Archive Update

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +0000

The Bonus Archive has been updated - all the bonus strips, bad translations, sprite strips, alternate versions, Rumormonger Idol contestants, etc. that have gone up as voting bonuses for the past year and a half are there now. So if you're a new reader here, there's some stuff you haven't seen - and if you're not, there's some stuff you probably haven't seen in a while!

And for a new voting bonus, vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics for a closer look at the evil dangerous weed Linton tried to arrest the other day!

Don't Vote For Me/Vote For Me

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:00 +0000

The Webcomic List Awards 2009 are now open for nominations! But you can't nominate Station V3 (or Z7, Ebb's Children, or Silence in the Darkness On Q16), because I'm one of the judges. If you're interested in nominating some of your (other) favorite comics, you've got until December 13th!

You CAN vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics - and if you do, you'll see the "Meanwhile, in the Alternate Universe..." strip I wound up not using last Saturday!

And if you're not interested in any of this voting stuff (or even if you are!), you can get 10% off a copy of An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3! this month by using the coupon code GREATBOOK when you order.

Trick or Treat!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0000

Happy Halloween!

New voting bonus today... A rumormonger photo in which they're getting a treat. (Or is it a trick? One way to find out!)

And Another Thing...

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:15:00 +0000

I bought the new Hitchhiker's Guide book on Monday... For whatever reason I haven't finished it yet (ordinarily I would have read the whole thing that night), but I suppose maybe it's a good sign that when I picked it back up I noticed I had stopped at page 42? I don't think it's going to be my favorite Hitchhiker's Guide book (which is actually So Long And Thanks For All The Fish), but it's not bad so far.

In other news, there's a new voting bonus up today! It's a sprite strip in which Neap tries to get Linton to rescue Violet and the Plant.

And there's also a new PodWarp 1999 episode up now! (Or at least one you haven't heard before!) Mark Mekkes and I discuss holidays in science fiction (last December).

Group Picture!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:40:00 +0000

Some more fan art! This one appeared on the forum, thanks to Unigirl3.

Desktop Art!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:37:00 +0000

I'd like to thank reader Katrina Blau for this very nice desktop art! (Click to see it at full size.)

Thanks, Katrina!

The Edible Version of Station V3

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:54:00 +0000

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!)

Guest Strip at Legend Of Bill

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:48:00 +0000

I did a guest strip recently for David Reddick's comic Legend Of Bill, and it's up now - take a look!

(And read through the rest of the archives too while you're there, if you haven't already - A file clerk turned barbarian and his friend the dragon set out for adventure. Good stuff!)

July

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:46:00 +0000

Another busy month... But we wouldn't want July 2009 missing from the blog archives, now would we?

Tune in next month, as Lloyd finds out all about being the Station V3 administrator, and Floyd finds out what HIS job is going to be!