There are three new voting bonus pictures up today of guys on the planet. (Here, here, and here.) One of them is a robot… but which one is it?

Thank You to everyone who’s been voting for Station V3 so far this month! If you’ve missed any previous bonus strips or pictures, the bonus archive has been updated, so you can see them there. (And in other site update news, I finally got around to updating the art page with the 2004 Secret Santa stuff I sent and received!)

I was going through the prototype notebook, where I doodled, sketched, and scribbled a lot of the stuff that later wound up being Station V3, and I found some stuff that didn’t… today’s bonus is one of the things in there that appeared to have nothing to do with Station V3. But I suppose I could say one of the Plant’s relatives is in it… (The previous two bonus pictures are now here and here.)

While I can’t really say today’s comic (or Station V3 in general) is especially romantic, today’s bonus picture does have a Valentine’s Day theme! (But it isn’t especially romantic either.)

There are some interesting pictures from the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie at this page at IGN.com. The Vogons look a little bigger than I remember from the TV show, and I’m wondering if Zaphod’s going to be calling himself Phil… This is one of those movies I’m going to see whether it gets good reviews or not, but I’m hoping for good.

(What if the Guide had an entry on Station V3? It might look a little like this bonus picture.)

This time a year ago on Station V3, the station had broken apart, and the station that had been Z7 (and would be again) was put into service as V3-b while V3 was repaired. But did you know that one of the problems they faced on V3-b was an invasion of superheroes? I didn’t know that either – but it’s up as today’s reader request bonus strip!