The comic Insanity for the Poor is one year old today, and I sent a guest strip for the occasion (which is up now). (A little background for the guest strip, in case you’re not familiar with the comic: Doomy is a demon that works at Hell’s gate, and a poseur doll is, well, a poseur doll…)

Today’s bonus strip is an alternate version of a past strip – it turned up semi-complete in the pile of V3 strips, so I semi-completed it some more. Bonus points to the first one to post a message on the forum identifying which strip it’s an alternate version of! (Not sure what you can do with them, but still… bonus points!)

Other things that turned up and are now availble for your voting pleasure: another station that appears to be using modified escape pods as shuttles, and this guy. Thanks for voting!

Today’s voting bonus is another photo of Ebb looking for the next bonus that isn’t a photo of Ebb looking for the next bonus.

(That isn’t a photo of Ebb.)

Since I’ve had Station V3 online for almost two years now (and Z7 one), the pile of original strips on paper has been getting pretty big. And it’s not really in any kind of order – Z7 strips are in the pile with the V3 strips, and bonuses, rough drafts, guest strips, etc. are in there too. I was going through the pile today, and I found a strip from some time last year that I don’t remember actually using, even as a bonus – and the words hadn’t been added, so I don’t know exactly what it was going to say! So now it says two different things. One version’s up as the voting bonus at buzzComix, and the other’s up at TopWebcomics. Even if I did use it before (let me know if you remember seeing it!), it’ll be a little different this time. And I’ve got Ebb looking through the pile to find any more strips like that. (See the photo at Webcomics List!)

I’ve also updated the bonus archive with all the bonuses through the end of last month, so if you missed any, you can see them all there. Thank You to everyone who’s been voting! If you have any requests for a bonus, you can post them at the forum – which brings me to another topic. There have been some problems with posts from unregistered users at Talk About Comics (where the forum is) lately, so the admins have turned off guest posting. Now you’ll have to be a registered user there to post on the forum. So if you’ve been wanting to talk about Station V3 (or any other comic with a forum there), now would be a good time to register.

A year ago today, the first Z7 strip went up as a voting bonus strip (yes, it’s up again), and soon after that, it went up (in color) on its own site. And it’s still going… I’ve tried to tell it I’m too busy, doing V3 as a daily comic already… but would it listen? It even insisted on a bonus update today!