USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY = December 8

USPS DOMESTIC EXPRESS = December 21

Please make your orders accordingly, once those dates have passed there's not a lot we can do. Physics prevents most of our more creative solutions to this dilemma unfortunately.

Also I want to apologize to all of you for today's missed strip. My daughter has been sick since Monday, and while I've been trying to keep up with my workload by working nights, I've fallen behind considerably. Rather than post a rushed strip late today I'm just going to pick things up on Monday and hope for a better week.

Once work on Book 3 is completed (still working on the last few copyedits) I'm going to try and rebuild my long-vanished buffer to try and prevent these things from happening again. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

First up is the new book! The Corndog Imperative is book two of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle, serving up full-color Goats chaos and mayhem from 2006 and 2007. Published by Del Rey, this is my second mass-market release. It'll be available at your local comic shops and bookstores and online in various places but if you'd be kind enough to preorder it directly from us you'll be helping to support the strip. You'll also have the opportunity to order the book signed and sketched by Yours Truly for a few extra shekels and we'll also toss in an Overclocked Lemon or Psychic Potato stressball (also available separately) if you so desire. And every preorder ships with a free full-color plastic bookmark, for place-savin' while you're reading.

If you never picked up the first book, or you're buying Christmas presents for someone new to the strip, we've knocked the price of book one, Infinite Typewriters, down to only twelve dollars. That's a two dollar savings off the cover price! And you can get both books together for only $25, for a combined savings of like, seventy dollars probably.

I'd like to stress that it's extremely important for me to sell as many of these books as possible if I would like to please my corporate masters and have them continue to print more Goats books in the future. Please help if you can and consider giving them to your friends and family this holiday.

Next, we've got two new t-shirts available for wearing! Check out the new Turtles All The Way Down and I'm Feeling Randy. Both instant classics. Both available in your size. Both guaranteed to make you more attractive and/or fiscally savvy.

We're also offering prints in a variety of flavors, including Showcase Showdown, featuring art from the cover of the upcoming Book 3, Team Force Alpha prints Danger Jungle: Swamp Action and Graveyard of Death, and the full Jonathan Livingston Seagull comic. There might be some others. I can't be bothered to check.

That's about it for store hoohah. Friday's strip finishes up the Status Quo storyline (and the content for the mostly-theoretical Book Four), and I'm going on mandatory vacation (i.e., working on copyedits to book 3 while everyone else travels repeatedly to one of several nearby identical Target stores to buy diaper paste) to Florida, Land of Jewish Grandparents next week, so this seems as good a time for a break from the strip as any. Brock will be contributing Teh Nerdzors strips for the next two weeks. Please be gentle with him. I'll be back on December 7th with a new storyline to kick off Book 5.

So, no strip for Monday, and probably Wednesday (although maybe a guest MG strip?), but I'll do my best to be back on track for Friday. Sorry for the disruption of service, and I hope to be back in front of the Cintiq very soon.

UPDATE: Taking over the stripping duties for the time being is none other than our very own Brock Stalkley! Brock will be honoring us with his comicking efforts, entitled TEH NERDZORS minis and starring Brock and his roommate, Scott the Miniature Elephant.

TEH NERDZORS minis is the sequel to MEGAgamerz and the prequel to Goats. Scholars are still debating whether or not it is canon.