Today's strip took something like 8 hours total. Ridiculous. I hope it was worth it. Of course, what the hell do you care, right? As long as you get your fix you're all happy little methadone addicts.

End-ofYear packages for the Super-Premium folks are going to be way late. This year's minis are taking far longer to put together than I had hoped they would, and it's slowing everything else down. I'm shooting for end of January at this point to be realistic. The good news is that the third mini, "Operating Thetan Level Three," promises to be the best one yet. It's a Neil solo story, believe it or not, guest starring Oliver, Tom Cruise, and Xenu himself! So it will be worth the wait and please don't be mean to me.

The annual Nov. 15th deadline for subscribing for the goodie bag came and went a while ago so there's no chance of geting these unless you thought ahead and subscribed early. Tough luck, suckers!

And yes, I know I owe you Sunday strips. They're coming. Hard.

The October Sunday Strip is up and waiting for you to be reading it. In this episode, our heroes make it back to the network node, but something is already there ahead of them...

This is the time of year where I traditionally work 14 hour days to get everything ready for our Super-Premium End-of-year Package, affectionately known around these parts as the SPEY Package. It is a hard, grueling time but ultimately worth it to see the dimples and smiles on the faces of billions of children around the world. You've only got until November 15th to get in on this year's SPEY action, so git movin'.

This year's package is HUGE:

• Limited Edition Mystery T-Shirt
• Limited Edition Full-color Archival Print
• Original Full-Color Goats Mini-Comic
• Goats Buttons
  (set of 4)
• Goats Stickers
  (2 sets of 6 vinyl beauties)
• Certificate of Member-ness

Two changes from last year: firstly, the Gocco print is now and archival print. I'd like to see what we can do with more than two colors for a change; I think it will be a nice change of pace. Also, we've finally run out of Diablo tattoos, so no more of those.

Anyway, back to work for me, I will chime in soon with additional wondrous and amazing news for you!

The Sunday Strip for September is now seconds away from your beady, bloodshot eyes. Lots of carnage this episode. October's is almost ready; I should have it to you in the next few days. Certainly by the end of the month, at any rate. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

New premium strips are now up for your consumption; both the belated one for June, Worlds of Peril 18, and the just-in time Worlds of Peril 19 for July. Enjoy!

Preemies, your Sunday Strip for April awaits you. Is that a note of regret I hear in Fineas' voice?

Your Sunday Strip for March is now available. And with that, we're all caught up. More fighting and general intra-team unpleasantness this week.

Now I get to move onto working on my story for the Disposable Parts, the idea for which has been slowly germanating. I anticipate lots of farm animals and violence, but that's no real surprise.

Your Sunday Strip for February is now available. Lots of revelations and backstory in this one, with more to come.

I'm beginning to think I have a chance of catching up -- March's Sunday Strip is already drawn, and if coloring goes well, maybe it'll be ready sometime next week. I hope.