Last month was Z7’s third birthday – and this month (coming up on the sixth) is V3’s fourth! There will be guest strips next week to celebrate. (If you’d like to contribute one, there’s still time to get it in!)

Also this month, there will be some voting bonuses besides the usual sprite strips, bad translations, and Rumormonger Idol – though of course you can expect to see all those too! For example, today there are pictures of the two characters from V3’s system to attend the unreality conference (here and here) – but not in their usual colors.

There is no truth to the rumor that I’ve been quiet here because I’ve been abducted by the UFOs.

Or that they’ve asked me to please not call them boring.

Anyway, the Who Gets Kicked Off poll is up now on the forum, and today’s voting bonuses are a sprite strip in which two rumormongers (including one with a hat) discuss the voting, and a bad translation of today’s comic.

For today’s bonuses, Contestant 5 concludes Round 4 of Rumormonger Idol – and in a sprite strip, Contestant 6 considers life after Rumormonger Idol.

(Apparently no invasions or abductions that we know of from last night… boring UFOs!)

I’m looking out the back window, and there are a whole bunch of things flashing different colors in the sky right now.

I haven’t identified them yet, they’re flying in all sorts of directions, and they’re certainly objects! So for now at least I’m seeing UFOs out the back window. (And so are some other friends and relatives in other parts of Northeast PA.)

Interesting!

To all the people who have arrived here lately searching for “who got kicked off Idol” – it was Contestant 6! But I doubt very much that was quite what you were searching for…

Round 4 of Rumormonger Idol begins now… Contestant 2 has some new modifications, and Contestant 4 is trying out a new strategy. What do you think?

(Oh, and for anyone who did get here with that search string or some variation of it, it seems that the answer you were most likely looking for this week was “Sanjaya.”)