Click here to go all wibbly in a phone box in this week’s comic!

Click here to join in his wonderment at simple things.

Want to know why this dinosaur looks quite so embarrassed? Click here to read this week’s strip and find out!

So this year I hit the big four-oh. Society would have me believe that I can only regain the excitement and vigor of youth by buying a Harley, wearing tight jeans, loud shirts, and purchasing hair dye products. But you know what?

I can’t be bothered. Meh.

Try to catch this week’s strip without dropping a hip right here.

Please ensure to wear appropriate hazard gear at all times whilst reading this week’s strip right here.

This week’s strip was one of those times when I overheard a snippet of a conversation and a situation popped into my head. I fully expect most people to be like “wha…?”, but it worked in my GRATE BRANE when I came up with it.

I thought I would try a less time-demanding inking method – fast brushy swooshes instead of my usual OCD solid line with many overinks. I think it worked ok, although I might try a slightly thicker brush next time. Saved me a whole mess of time though, and also made inking fun again.

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This week, we take a look at the absolute clusterfuck that is the redesign of the Gawker Media group’s wesbites. They don’t want to be seen as blogs aymore, so have decided to rebuild them as SERIOUS NEWS OUTLETS, and in the process managed to drop site traffic and piss just about all their readers off, eventually caving into the baying crowd so much that they have cobbled together some stuff to pacify them that effectively makes the whole damn enterprise redundant in the first place. Like putting wheels on a hovercar because people just prefer wheels.

Gotta love that schadenfreude feeling. We are proud to say we are a blog, will always be a blog and will never change that.

Point and laugh at the fat websites with bad glasses right here.

I know, I know, it’s been like, a million years since the last comic strip proper. But that’s the way with us frilly-sleeved, foppish creative-types – sometimes the mojo just buggers right off. And when you aren’t able to draw, there’s not a lot you can do, sadly. If you have come back after all this time to find this, then we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, bless you.

But that is sorted now. We have a few scripts lined up and ready to go, so here’s hoping this is a return to our normal schedule. Don’t forget, there will be quickie strips during the week too, to keep you happy and floaty light!

Anyway, enough grovelling, shut up and click here to get completely lost in this week’s strip!

Sit back and relive the halcyon days with this week’s strip right here.

Hidden in this weeks Avoid Spikes comic is a massively ridiculously hyper-obscure Doctor Who reference – if you can find it and are the first to add a comment to the strip saying what it is and where it comes from, you’ll win yourself the pick of the dogsounds store!

Here’s the basic rules:

• The competition is open to anyone, anywhere, except me and Mart. This is kinda obvious, really.
• The winner is the first person to add a comment to the 04/04/2010 strip stating what the reference is, and where it comes from.
• People I work with cannot get hints or clues from me when we go back to work, not even if bribed with TEH FOODZ or DAVEBREWS.
• The winner will receive an email confirming that they have won, and will need to reply providing their mailing address and stating which 1 (one) item from the dogsounds store (excluding the cameras) they want as their prize.
• Prize will be delivered within 28 days.
• The winner will not be charged for the prize or shipping, but because some countries suck local customs or duty charge may apply depending on how crappy your country is with import tax and duty.
• Once you have your prize, use it well and be awesome. No returns, no refunds!

And that’s it! Closing date will be 1/5/2010, and if no one gets it we may decided to pick a winner based on most amusing comment instead. Good luck!