Thanks for all the great e-mail about the last couple comic strips. I appreciate all the support. I just have a couple things to mention real quick.

If the RSS didn't tell you already. I hope you enjoy it.

The news feed, in the code, refers to itself as the "News Fucker 3000."

I always knew that people had misgivings about communists, but I never understood why until I was laid low, ravaged by one of their Red Colds. This is like watching someone's slides from their trip to Agony. There is the Great Gulf of Torment. There is the River of Unpleasant Moisture.

Gabe just got back from Sacramento today, having gone down to a career fair to convince the young that one can indeed make a living drawing things.

I'm just testing our new RSS feed. I didn't mean to get your hopes up for a stirring new post.

Holy shit.

My friend Robert came back from Shanghai with some Stephen Chiau DVDs and some kind of Communist Supercold. I borrowed the movies and maybe the disease just came along for the ride, but that's no reflection on Stephen Chiau, who is a comedy powerhouse.

Part Two of "Cardboard and Steel," Penny Arcade's epic samurai tale, awaits you. I want to stress that I use the term "epic" rather loosely, for example - I think my belt is rather epic. This page is really cool, by the way. That's something I can get away with saying because I had very little to do with it. The first panel of the strip has been fashioned into a wallpaper, if you are so inclined.

Like Ghost Recon, I'm mainly interested in Raven Shield for the co-op play - but I'm still going to grab the recently released single player demo.

I am heading out of town tomorrow but I wanted to make a quick update.

But I've been really excited about Restaurant Tycoon for some reason. Demo's out now, by the way.

The forces of Continuity will not be stayed long, and you may be sure that they wait in the space between moments, all craft and cunning. Time has no meter to them, they are not bound by it, and also they don't carry watches so it could be five in the morning or six in the afternoon, they really have no idea. Nothing seems more Penny Arcade to me than a flight of fancy, some unauthorized adventure that seizes the site. We certainly hope that you enjoy the Cardboard and Steel miniseries, but if you don't, there's really nothing we can do for you.

I mentioned about a month ago that we got a kitty. Well we brought her back from the vet the other day and discovered that now we had a kitty and some fleas. I don’t know if the vet charged us extra for the fleas as I didn’t scrutinize the bill as well as I probably should have. Perhaps it was just flea day at the vet and we happened to be the thousandth customer. At any rate Kara and I decided that, while we liked the cat the fleas had to go. Kara ran to the store and bought a flea collar, flea comb and some special shampoo. Yeah shampoo, those of you with cats can already see where this story is heading.

I mentioned about a month ago that we got a kitty. Well we brought her back from the vet the other day and discovered that now we had a kitty and some fleas. I don’t know if the vet charged us extra for the fleas as I didn’t scrutinize the bill as well as I probably should have. Perhaps it was just flea day at the vet and we happened to be the thousandth customer. At any rate Kara and I decided that, while we liked the cat the fleas had to go. Kara ran to the store and bought a flea collar, flea comb and some special shampoo. Yeah shampoo, those of you with cats can already see where this story is heading.

We're going to start sending it out today.