Finally made it!  After a months inactivity, we’re glad to be back on our regularly scheduled schedule.

So, we’re delving a bit more into everyone’s history.  Now we have an inkling as to why David is always walking around in a flight jacket… he used to be a sky pirate!  Ever played “Skies of Arcadia?”

Back when we were planning this whole shindig, we all agreed that all the characters should have good backstories, and that’s what this story arc is all about.  There’s a similar backstory for Chris, Ashley… the whole cast.  Maybe we’ll get to get into their pasts too?

The ship here was designed by Chris, during the lull (the only guy with access to a working computer), and updated/cleaned up by David.  Three cheers!

So, thanks for showing up… and thanks for the encouragement over the last few weeks!  Our analytics packages have assured us that our average hits-per-day had not gone down… in fact, they increased!  So we knew we were being missed!

So, enjoy the comic.  And if you’re new here, read through our archives.  And don’t hold our first issues against us

“I swear,” says the artist, “I will NEVER ever name a comic after a computer glitch again.” Yes that’s right, folks. The artist’s computer has died again. Sorry for the delay. Here’s Saturday’s update:

Sorry for the lateness of this comic… again.  If you haven’t read about it, we’re in the process of moving, so it’s causing delays all across the board.  Next weeks’ comic might be delayed as well, depending on how fast Verizon gets our FIOS hooked up!

We finally get to delve into the backstory of Dave and Chris.  Before we started on this journey, we planned out complete back stories for Dave and Chris.  All that work’s gonna come in handy!

See you next week.

P.S.!  We have a new feature here at Missing Number Comics!  As our archives grow (and they will grow… this is only Issue 25), finding a specific issue can be difficult.  To help with that, we had just recently implemented a “tags” system, that appears directly below each comic.  You can use these “tags” to find comics of similar subject material, etc.  (EDITOR’S NOTE:  This is now a feature of Missing Number:  Gold Edition,  with separate tags for characters and not-as-important-as-characters.  See all the tags in the footer.)

Well, now we’ve added even more value for your … value.  Enter the Google Custom Search!  Located directly below the Google Ads to the right hand side (EDITOR’S NOTE: nowadays it’s at the top) is a search box powered by Google Custom Search.  You can use this search engine to do a full text search of the entire Missing Number Site.

How does it work?  Here’s a bit of our website secret sauce: each comic comes complete with a “Novelization,” a prose version of the comic.  You can see it by clicking over on the “Novelization” link next to the ads under the comics’ image.  This serves three purposes:  users with text browsers or other assistive technologies can enjoy our storyline if they wish… Google (a text indexer) can index against this text, allowing outside searching of our archives (something I wish more comics would do… as long as they aren’t Pokemon comics, as I don’t want to lose my PageRank)… and now, it’s used by our Internal Custom Search to make searching our archives easier!

And they call Google evil… come on.  All I had to do was sell your eyes for advertising…