News: 

Around the web:
- Deviant art is working on creating something called "Motion Books" which is something like animatics or motion comics. Looks kind of neat. 
http://motionbooktool.deviantart.com/blog/
Example: http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Mono-T ... -362911026

- The pilot trailer for the animated series of Least I Could Do is posted. If this is something you feel like you want to have in your brain, you can find it here.

- Comic book legend Carmine Infantino passed away today at the age of 87. Co-creator of the flash, and several other DC characters.

Milestones
Pulse is now 125 pages long.

Welcome Wagon
- Martian Orders by Paul Tye

Review: 
- Crowbar
- Dubious Company

Discussion: 

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Local:
- RGBots is a new comic effort by hpkomic, Deft Beck and Conroy Conroy - it's described as A Hot, Sexy, Robot Comics Jam WITH A TWIST. Be warned! This comic jam features a lot of copy/paste and swear words.

Around the web:
- A feature length documentary highlighting some of the worlds best cartoonists? There's a kickstarterfor that.

- Strip Search A reality game show about webcartoonists...I'm less excited for this.

- Emerald City ComicCon happened. It was said to be 'an event'

Review: 
- Fantasy Power


Discussion: 
- Our Favourite Webcomic Characters

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Hi everyone!

Before posting the news items I just wanted to take a moment to apologize for our sporadic update schedule as of late.  My new job has been keeping me pretty busy and it's been making it tough to have enough time to record a show and then edit it.

BUT we have one for you today and we hope to have another in a few weeks time. 

Thanks for bearing with us!  We appreciate your continued listening!

News: 

Around the web: 
- Build A Game Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/65916870/build-a-game 

Milestones: 
Local: 
- Machinegun Angel will be 4 years old on February 3rd! (although it is on indefinite hiatus!) Been hard at work on my new full color web manga project "Sweet Dreams Bakery!" 

Review: 
- Elysion Age 

Discussion: 
- The Steam Punk 

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Around the web: 
- Stef Marcinkowski of the webcomic Sarah Zero is holding the ninth annual Sex Drive, in which webcomic authors use Valentine's day to post a naked picture of their comic characters. 

The people at Cyanide and Happiness have turned down their 3rd offer to make the popular strip into a TV show. This is also the last time they do so and will be moving towards kickstarter to fund an online cartoon of the comic. 

Review: 
http://www.accurseddragon.com/ - Accursed Dragon by Ryan Smith 

Discussion: Violence in webcomics

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Local: 
- Just Another Day reaches the end of its third volume on December 27th. 

Can I get a mention for turning three years old back in October too? It got lost somewhere in an episode gap. 

Around the web: 
- Ryan Estrada, has announced a launch date for Asking For Trouble: Thursday, 10 January (that would be this week) at 9:00pm EST. 

Danielle Corsetto, has announced the first of them as an Adventure Time original graphic novel, to be illustrated by Zack Sterling, entitled Playing With Fire. 

Numbers for Child's Play are in. They raised over 5 million dollars, which is 2 million over what they raised last year. To date, over 17M dollars have been raised through child's play. 

Hugo Nominations have opened up! 

Milestones: 
Local: 
- Culture Shock hit 300 pages on Dec 31st 2012 

Review: 
- Endtown 

Discussion: 
Tone of Story and Art 

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News: 

Around the web: 
- Here is a cool and interesting Kickstarter Project - Magnet Comic 
- Girl Genius is also doing a kickstarter for their very own Video game! 
-Ryan Estrada of XKCD is also running his own kickstarter - A choose your own adventure version of hamlet. Yes, shakespear's hamlet. 
-MiloNeuman (jiminycricketx) has opened up 20 slots for Christmas commissions! For more information check out his DA journal here: http://fav.me/d5nty0s 
-Tim Buckley has rebooted Ctrl-Alt-Del. 

Milestones: 
Local: 
- Culture Shock had its 11th Anniversary a while back. 

Review: Project Jikoku 

Discussion: 
Character flaws 

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News: 

Around the web: 
- Child's play has begun again for its ninth come around, and has already received $300,000 within the first week. Last year they tallied up $3.5M 

- Is readership for webcomics in general dropping a bit? El Santo of the Webcomics Overlook has some interesting stats to show us. 

- Axe Cop + Kickstarter = Documentary? Lucy, you got some splainin to do... 

- Rich Burlew's Order of the Stick has it's own miniature for use in your table top grid maps. Even comes with customizable eyebrows! 

- The Desert Bus for hope charity event should still be running when you record. 

- Cheeko has released the 2nd part of her series BLANK. You can purchase a copy here: http://wolfstories.net/ 

Milestones: 
Local: 
- Planet Chaser hit its 3rd year on the Dish last oct 25! 

Discussion: 
- Reed and Modesty talk revisit some comics we've reviewed over the years and discuss where they are today. Links for comics talked about can be found on BJC's Dish Data Bank 

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