Station V3 is somewhere around the 500 strip mark. The KeenSpace guide had it at 500 strips yesterday. It may be a strip or two under if you subtract the occasional guest strip… or way over if you include the bonus strips!

Looks like buzzComix is having some problems… so if you want to see the new bonus picture, it’s the voting incentive at TopWebcomics now.

If you’ve got a website and you’d like to link to Station V3, and you’d like some sort of banner or button for it, there are a few new ones here, with more on the way.

Today’s bonus doodle shows one of the hazards of living on Station V3. The current reader request bonus strip is here now – if you have a request for the next bonus strip, or you’ve got something you’d like to say about the comic, you can do all that at the forum!

There’s a new reader request voting bonus strip up today… Floyd’s box of spare parts was last seen on Z7, and now it’s back!

In other webcomic news: today over on Zeera the Space Pirate, there’s a guest strip I sent in for the comic’s third birthday celebration. (Happy Birthday to it!)

On a sadder note, Dog Complex is starting its final three weeks today.

The phone and DSL seem to be back to normal now. Cable is, too. (That was off too for a while, for unrelated reasons – the company was rerouting some wires somewhere) So the only problem getting today’s comic online was that Mr. Maintenance Engineer didn’t seem to want me to draw him at first. (Maybe he was mad about the way his eyes bugged out a bit in the third panel of the current bonus?) But we worked it out.