Here's why the furry comic Jack isn't updating.

Send David your well wishes and Good Thoughts via the aforementioned thread... their e-mail is probably flooded already..

Sluggy Freelance has the sometime "filler weeks," often coinciding with Pete Abrams' appearances at conventions such as Penguicon (which apparently Abrams will be attending this year).

Abrams writes that his next filler week is right around Penguicon in early May, and that he is in need of something for a Sunday strip. To enter his fan art competition, send in an original piece of fan art to trillian at my sluggy.com address, width of no more than 700 pixels wide, gif or jpg fomat, each file under a meg. Winner to be picked by Abrams and a to be announced panel of judges.

Pulse's inexhaustible Jen Contino interviewed Iain Hamp about his comic, Darwin's Complex.

Figuring out the ins and outs of life is tough enough when you're human, imagine being a robot, though, and trying to figure out human nature? That's the problem facing the robot Darwin in Iain Hamp's webcomic Darwin's Complex.

Although I haven't pestered Greg Stephens about the timing yet (and I suspect the date will be "when it's ready") it looks increasingly likely that Greg will be releasing a public version of the excellent set of scripts he coded to run Zwol, (which, if you haven't visited, is a great site with comics by Greg and others and a healthy discussion forum) which he has labeled "ZAS" or Zwol Archive System. Check out the recent updates in Greg's "The Latest Word" column on the front page of Zwol.