Ninth Art weighs in on whether or not comics are uniquely obsessed with issues of continuity.

Jeremy - the nine-year old Frankenstein monster with a heart of gold and a body of criminal corpse parts - packed up its online existence way back at the beginning of the year.

After six months absence, Jeremy returns in his first comic book appearance since Gumbo, in the pages of BOO!:Halloween Stories ...

On Tuesday Oct. 2, webcomic kingpin Scott Kurtz let fly a comical jab poking fun at fellow Big Webcomic On The Block, Penny Arcade.

Krahulik and Holkins were quick to respond to the barb with a comic jab of their own today, using the Comixpedia's own most recent Webcomic Traffic Rankings article as cannonfodder. As is expected from the PA pair, they also spoke of the matter in their newsboxes.

At this point, the exchange appears to be friendly in nature.

I don't know how Dirk Deppey found this one but good catch. I agree with most of Mr. Bateman's rant - which is why I look for opinionated comics on the web and in the weekly throw-away.

Jim Zubkavich is best known for his completed long-form webcomic Makeshift Miracle, so it's good to hear that he's contemplating starting another long-form webcomic soon. Here's the link to the Pulse interview.

New freaky ascii webcomic Command Line Comics gets to number 100 on October 8th. You can also take a look at Pepius' other freaky ascii comics.

Or just check out the whole website at www.iespana.es/pepius.

(In English and Spanish!)

What kind of place is this? It's the weird, twisted, no-holds barred world of the Comixpedia Hallowe'en Event.

We want you to create a 13-panel scary story starting from a random panel we assign. It's a fear-fraught opportunity to work with some of the most twisted minds in webcomics.

Chow down on terror with a bit of frisson for dessert. And don't forget to leave us the check.

Hello everyone. Heck of a first post, but I figured since I have a specific question about setting up plot then here would serve rather than the Coffee Haus.

While sitting down and designing the plot and script for a webcomic project I hope to complete (as opposed to my previous dismal failure), I've run into a slight quandry. Perhaps some of the webcomic gurus here could cast their considerable wisdom on the problem?

The first "segment" of the plot centers around a scientist who works at a large observatory built on the Lunar Farside. Unfortunately for her (and helping to set up some of the larger conflicts) not only is her pet project threatened with closure, the observatory itself is set to be shut down barely a few months after it was completed (real-life precedent for such bonebrained reversals: those who follow science news may remember in 1993 when the Superconducting SuperCollider, then the most ambitious particle accelerator planned, was cancelled by the US Congress, leaving a big hole in the Texas soil.)

However, at the moment that her project recieved its "death sentence", it succeeds when the scientist finds not only what she's looking for (Earth-sized planets beyond our solar-system) but finds something she wasn't looking for, but even more momentus (one such planet has a breathable atmosphere).

In other words, a case of serendipity (which does happen in real science now and then) occurs to save the scientist's project. Storywise, this seems to be a little too pat, but since this is being planned as the trigger for everything else that follows, I think such a coincidence may be justified, but I fear it might shatter the suspension of disbelief that I want to cultivate. Any opinions?

Andrew