This week (uh, again) in Smithson:

23 Skidoo - despite their supernatural tracking powers - have apparently lost Micki and Chuck in the forest, and given up the chase. But where did Micki and Chuck actually get to?

I've always though that the majority of webcomics were gamer comics. Amateurish gamer comics. Even more broadly comics that center on geek culture. I don't think I am alone in this. The gamer comic horde has been the subject of numerous diatribes, rants, and snarky cynical comics. I have come to realize that I am wrong. Dead wrong.

In a perfect world, I would have the patience to create a webcomic, from beginning to end, and then post it like clockwork, on a daily schedule. But it's not a perfect world, and I don' t have a lot of patience.

Over on Talkaboutcomics is an interview with Dale Ingram, the creator of the rock & roll comic Hold My Life. I have had Hold My Life on a list of webcomics I want to write reviews for and I actually have notes on the archives to date (I really just need to sit down and write complete sentences...) It's certainly a webcomic worth checking out and so is the interview.

I only ask because that's what happens to our heroes in this week's instalment of Laughter in Cold Blood, one of the comics I made by rubbing two biros together in the pre-PC days of my youth.

Yes, those fiendish one-legged Welsh monsters have taken three of our crew captive. See what cruel fate awaits them in the latest two pages to be posted at Broken Voice Comics and tune in next week for our nail-biting conclusion!

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• Sequential Tart interviews Rich Burlew of Order of the Stick.
• Tod Allen, author of The Economy of Webcomics, has a short essay on why last weeks Captain America media event would have benefited from digital distribution.
• Derek Kirk Kim is working on two new books, one with Jesse Hamm and one with Gene Yang. The information is rather limited at this time, but one is slated for release this August and the other at the end of 2008 (if I read the entry correctly).
• Preparations for the Penny Arcade Expo 2007 is well under way. If you want to save some money, there is an early-bird registration rate for those who register before March 31st.
• Finally, from the "not-webcomics at all" department. Shaennon Garrity makes a note of a "Get Your Girl Into Comics" thread on the Johm Byrne forum.

  The thread currently running on the Byrne board is notable only because it's such a perfect, Platonic example of the genre. It's like a template for all Get Your Girl Into Comics threads on all comic-book forums for all eternity. It's got every one of the essential elements