I was trying to come up with a different title for these posts but the variety sent to us has been all over the place. Everything from reaching an astronomical number of updates, to merchandise, to getting slashdotted.

Goats – I know I’m way behind on this but any milestone as big as reaching 2000 strips deserves acknowledgement. On Nov 27 Jon posted this strip that makes a little more since then most of the strips in the real story. Congrats Jon and we all hope that last panel will some day be more then an hallucination.

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In a strange turn of events, I'm not reporting the demise of a Web comic, rather the rebirth. I'm not sure how to feel about this, I feel so out of place.

Anyway one year and a very small about of change after we reported it was leaving the World Wide Web, Niego is back. Jason Sigala will be bringing his strip back on a Mondays-only update schedule. He also stated that for personal reasons he won't be returning to his old Web comic collective, BoxCar Comics.

Beyond that there's not much information on Sigala's site, but it should be more than enough for Niego fans.

I didn't want to push Daku's post about Wikipedia down, but there was a lot of other stuff today that I had to mention while it was still relevant. So read this, donate to Child's Play and then go read the posts below this and make comments so that we develop some discussion and maybe even a flame war. We've been months without a flame war.

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In a shocking turn of events, Sean Tenhoff, the creator of Webcomic Idol-finalist, The Bean Men, has pulled his strip from the competition, citing a bout of cheating on his part by some overzealous readers.? The voting system has come under fire before and this latest issue, damning as it is for one contestant, should force the folks at Bomb Shelter to take a harder look at it before attempting another Webcomic Idol.

So is Bean Men done for?? The announcement (made by Tenhoff himself on the BS forums) has yet to be reflected in the votes, so stay tuned for the final fate of The Bean Men.

A moment of silence for all the strips who are no longer updating…

I always seem to be the one to report the sad news. Housd is done. After over three and a half years and 1284 strips, Ali Graham has ended the strip no one thought would ever miss an update let alone come to completion.

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A down, but not defeated Midnight Cartooner here, joining you for yet another update of the only things that matter: webcomic news and video game lovin’. Webcomic Idol is FAR from over, so stay tuned for a detailed analysis of every strip still in-it-to-win-it. But for now, a few notes of a different competitive slant. Continue reading →

I LOVE Thanksgiving! It kills the site but I just can’t resist the food. Thanksgiving is especially good if your parents are divorced and they totally different cultures. The food was outstanding and I was so totally stuffed that I wasn’t able to eat again until Saturday at which point I went back for seconds. What kind of web comic celebrations for this of giving thanks did everyone come across? While you’re pondering that here is some news that’s just burning a hole on the bulletin board.

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I won’t delay the inevitable; yes, the Webcomic Idol is the first and last thing on my mind this week (right after my impending nuptials, of course) and yes, I will be talking about it for the next few weeks. However, I will be talking about the process that I, as a contestant, am going through and, should I feel the need to talk about the quality of each strip, I will offer thoughts on ALL strips, not just one.

Why the clarification of how I want to feature the contestants? Well, it’s the opinion of some other pundits of the biz that the critiques of the strips involved in the contest should come in weekly, one-strip doses, leaving out the good/bad of the other strips and tossing a clear biased wrench into the works of the whole system. Nowhere in the rules does it state that anyone, even the judges, is denied the freedom to say what they want about any of the contestants. However, outside of pointing fingers before I know where to lay blame, all I can do is do what I feel is right and let others worry about their own motivations.

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Tokyopop is running a marathon of their print manga The Dreaming, putting a chapter a day online. This is a great boarding school horror story by Australian artist Queenie Chan. The art is beautiful and very suited to the subject matter; it reminds me of the ghost stories in the British girls’ comics I read as a kid. The story comes from an Australian legend about girls disappearing into the outback, but Queenie brings in a Victorian angle that allows for some great costume drama. This one is well worth a read.

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It's really early in the morning where I am, well really early if you were up until 2:30 last night ' which I was. Any who, I saw that Scott Kurtz, the man behind PVP, will be hosting a live podcast tonight at 9 p.m. That's 8 for me, 10 for you on the East Coast and well you get the picture.

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