Tara of Galaxion joins Fes, Aaron, and Tanya as we go over reasons and “how-to”s of restarting your webcomic. We also get Jason Wilson of Smuggling Vacation on to discuss some “controversy” that came from his print comic.

Milestones this week: Jazz and Jess (3-yrs) and Code Name Hunter (7-yrs). The Beacon Searchlight points at Unions of Heros and we give it our impressions. Mark Savary comes back with a review of Last Place Comics.

Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update! Lisa Sindorf and Peterson Trethewey came in first for Round 171: “Video Games”. Vote now for Round 172: “Birth”. The deadline to get your entries in for Round 172: “Made in China” is September 1st!

David Willis of Shortpacked introduces our show this week!

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Sites mentioned: Midwest Fur Fest, Fan Expo, Geek Kon, Girl-a-Matic, ReBoot, Dark Red, and be sure to check out our Talk Shoe page for “Extra Content” from after the show ends.

Next week we will be talking about Superhero Webcomics once again! Join us LIVE on Sunday at 3pm Eastern. We hope to have Ben of Point Guardian, Al of Mind Mistress, Mr. Neil of Dasien, and Abby of The Green Avenger.

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Each we we will try to do a quick impression of a submitted webcomic from a listener. Keep in mind that this is not a review, but merely our first impressions. We may love it, we may hate it. We may talk about it for a minute or several minutes. Either way, submit your comic (if you choose), and will stick it on the list. There is no “requirement” for your comic, except that you should have at least several strips already up for us to, you know, look at.

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The newest edition to the show… still trying to work out the bugs. But if you have a comic that you’ve been doing… but, for some reason, have gotten stuck, but really want to continue the comic…. Perhaps we can “rescue” it! Send an e-mail to us with: (1) Your Comic Name and URL; (2) Genre and Premise; (3) Why you think you are stuck; and (4) Any concerns and ideas you have. We’ll pick from a list of submitted comics and invite you to come on our show and take about 20 minutes to help brainstorm a story arc or direction for your webcomic to try.

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Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive joins Fes, Eric, and eventually Tanya as we discuss webcomics that have transgendering or morphologies.

Milestones this week: Dungeon Warden (500 and Ending), and Exiern (3 years).

Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update! Raygun came in first for Round 170: “Thing Under My Bed”. Vote now for Round 171: “Video Games”. The deadline for Round 172: “Birth” is August 25th!

Not Randy Milholland of Something Positive introduces our show this week!

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Sites mentioned: Sluggy Freelance, Girly, Commissioned, Girl Genius, PVP, Penny Arcade, Sin Fest, Dominic Deegan, Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity, Backward Compatible, Crossworlds, Ps238, The Wotch, Abstract Gender, Discordia, Clan Bob, Metamorphose, Order of the Stick, TGComics (moreso NSFW), Changes, Venus Envy, Galaxion, XXXenophile.com, Guest Strip Project, Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive, The KAMics,

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Fes and Tanya, are joined by Ben Carver to help salvage what Murphy’s Law had done to this week’s show! Awesome!Let’s say it’s everyone’s fault… yea… let’s go with that. Well, Hopefully this is entertaining since Fes get’s made fun of for not knowing how to do things. We also talk about a few things brought up in The Webcomic List forums. Some of which turned into a discussion on Feminism. And then we roll into how Fes can’t do things again.

Mary Savary brings us his thoughts on webcomic updates, and goes over The World’s Worst Webcomic, Avoid Spikes, Butternut Squash, Bugsport, Pirate & Alien, and Daedalus Blue. Also we have a Beacon Searchlight of Jakob’s Hourly Comic project. Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update! Deadline for Round 171: Videos Games is August 18th!

Mark Savary takes a look at The World’s Worst Webcomic by Evil Couch, Avoid Spikes by Martin & Wolf, Butternut Squash by Ramón Pérez and Rob Coughler, Bugsport by Ted Bastien, Pirate & Alien by Tyson Smith, and Daedalus Blue by John Aggs and Dave Andrews.

J. Jacques of Questionable Content introduces our show this week! Special break music was from Lord Pandar’s coming music album, with samples at Cryptowen.com, whom of which also did this week’s cover!

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Sites mentioned: Galaxion, School Spirit, Comic Genesis, Drunk Duck, Exiern, CSS Zen Garden, Net Mechanic, Coffee Cup, The Webcomic List Forums,  DMFA, The Devil’s Panties, Penny Arcade, Templar Arizona, Queen of Wands, Something Positive, American Gothic, Girls with Sling-Shots, Girl Genius, Girl-a-Matic, Girl Wonder, Webcomics Weekly, Downloadable Content, Digital Strips, Art and Story, The Gig Cast, Kaspall, Punch and Pie, Jenny Everywhere, Blade of Toshubi, Also you can check out the prep work for the Halloween Cameo Caper 2008!

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