To mark the occasion(?) of American Idol’s return to the airwaves, there are two new voting bonuses today (a strip and a sketch) dealing with TV on the rumormonger’s planet!

There was a news article on Comixpedia last month that briefly mentioned ComicOstrich as a webcomic collective that seems worth checking out. I thought that was interesting, since at the time it wasn’t really a collective… but it did seem like a good use for the site, so it’s gone through a little bit of a redesign, and that’s what it is now! The member comics so far (besides Station V3 and Z7) are Alternate Delusions by Tim Volpe, Beyond Reality by Orion Gates, and The Mansion of E by Robert Cook.

The redesign to the ComicOstrich site wasn’t too extensive (at least not yet) – front page links to the member comics, and the addition of a blog. You’ve probably noticed the little ComicOstrich link exchange box for the member comics here (to the right) and on the other comics’ sites, and of course there was already a ComicOstrich forum. The semi-hosted comics that were there before (including Ebb’s Children) are still there, since it seemed like a shame to take down the script after I got it to at least a semi-usable state!

In other comic-related news, there was a “draw Batgirl” meme that was going around LiveJournal the other day. Of course, I had to do it too…

And in non-comic news, it seems the new Dr. Who will be seen on US TV – or at least on US cable TV. Specifically, the Sci-Fi channel will be showing it. According to this article on the BBC’s Dr. Who site, they’ll be showing it on Fridays at 9 PM starting in March.

Recently in the comic we’ve found out the replacement Station V3 has an automatic shuttle docking system and an automatic defense system. Today’s new voting bonus sketches (here, here, and here) show some of the other possible automatic systems the new station might have!

Today’s new bonuses are: An alternate version of today’s strip, a bad tranlation of today’s strip, and a bad translation of the alternate version of today’s strip. (So I hope you like today’s strip!) Thank You to everyone who’s been voting!

Today’s bonus strip, by request – a little bit of a situation has developed over on the disabled V3 search mission ship. And Linton’s released a record about it!