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“I’m telling you, man. Miss Shannon gets all the best stuff.”

“I don’t get a big giant hammer to thump monsters with.”

“No, you just get a big giant cat with fangs and claws!”

“Rawr.”

“Check out the new updated Warrior of the Night Page folks.”

“Ooh! This one’s got the whole cast from the live action show!”

“What live action show?”

“Sailor Moon!”

“Yeah, you savvy?”

“Music-uuuuu Start-O!”

*giggle*

“You people need help.”

“It’s Friday!”

“Correction.”

“Hmm?”

“It’s TEN UPDATE FRIDAY!!”

“That means updates all day everyone! It’s going to be extra neat!”

“Konnichi-waaaa minna-san! It’s me Jessie! We got something super neat today because of the new comics group we’re in! It’s called Palace in the Sky Publishing!”

“There’s thousands of pages of comics on that site now. There’s 18 different comics!”

“That’s right. No comics are as cool as our pals.”

“Looky what we got!”

“It’s a color comic just like ours!”

“Yeah! Except it’s got zombies and stuff. It’s about a boy named ‘Cat Legend’ and he fights monsters and villains just like us!”

“Palaceinthesky.com Says it’s the Site of the Week.”

“All this week Cat Legend is the most important comic out of aaaaaaaaaall the comics on the whole site!”

“Hey, somebody should go find Antenna-hat girl and see if her comic’s going to be up there soon. That site is on Palace in the Sky Publishing too.”

“I hope we get to be the site of the week someday.”

“I’m going to need to clear a couple days to check all those comics out. Wow!”

“Go see our new Palace every day ’cause it’s going to be as much fun as our site!”

“Stand by for our comic update, folks! We’re back in a minute!”

“Ja!”

“Talitha-chan! I gots a question.”

“Is it from the e-mail page?”

“Nope. I wrote myself a letter with a question on it so you could answer it.”

“You wrote yourself a letter?”

“Yep!” *giggle*

“What does it say?”

“Okay, it’s from Jessie and it says Talitha-chan…”

“Don’t say who it’s from, you goofball! We know it’s from you because you just said you wrote the letter! Just read the question!”

“Shannon-sama no kowai…”

“What’s the question?”

“Okay like a zillion and three people wanna know how you find the beginning of our Fury of the Venom Legion Color Webcomic becuase they wanna read the whole thing from the beginning.”

Read LadyStar: Fury of the Venom Legion starting from Page One

“We made a customized category for our comic pages that lists them in chronological order, five pages at a time. So by going to the Fury of the Venom Legion Comic category, anyone can read the comic from the beginning.”

“Except the links are backwards.”

“Right. Click ‘previous entries’ to go to the next set of pages and ‘next entries’ to go back. I’m going to fix that next.”

“Yay! If you gots a question or comment or just wanna say ‘Hi Jessie!’ you can send me e-mail on my super-neat Jessie’s Letters Page and I might get some of my friends to help answer your question! Have fun reading our extra cool webcomic, minna! Ja ne!”

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“Report.”

“Satellite communications probe launched, Commander. Operation complete. Gamepowa Store Upgrade now broadcasting on all LadyStar pages.”

“Hi Acey-san! That’s a neat new banner we got! Do you really have all those games in your store?”

“Z-bot! What’s up? Let’s break it down for the people.”

“Standing by.”

“See, Z-bot and me got an understanding.”

*giggle*

“Who’s Sai Magnen?”

“Doesn’t sound too good to me.”

“Fury of the Venom Legion Page Seven has been published. Visit every Thursday for a new color page.”

“Z-bot to Hana. This is a Gamepowa Video Alert. Transmitting.”

“Errrr.. Report, Z-bot?”

“Data located by secondary criteria directive from Ranko Yorozu, ninth grade student. Keywords ‘tough girls’ returned two versions of Nim’s Island movie trailers. Standing by with secondary transmission.”

“Yeah uhhh.. heh heh heh… I told Z-bot to find some games for tough girls.”

“Yeah Ranko used my communicator to talk to Z-bot and I said I like adventure movies too!”

“Looks like a cool movie. Let’s go with it.”

“Yay!”

“Hana computers set to continuous-scan. Transmit when ready, Z-bot.”

“Now I’m sad for her because she looks like she’s really sick or something.”

“I wish we knew who she was.”

“Page Six is up. Visit every Thursday for a new color page.”

“Hi!”

“Ooh! Isian Badlands. That’s Isia! The same place from the trunk we found in my attic in The Dreamspeaker!”

“Good eye, Goofy Bird, good eye. I wonder how far that is from where we showed up? You think the Venom Deeps might be around there?”

“I still want to know who she is. Maybe she really is that Vicereine person from Call of the Huntress.”

“She seems mean, though.”

“Well you’d be mean too if some guy was trying to stab you with a giant knife.”

“I’d zap him with my lantern like the Halloween monsters!”

“Little bit is fearless, isn’t she?”

“Heheheeeee…”

“Page Five has been updated. Fury of the Venom Legion updates every Thursday with a brand new color page.”

“That’s Talitha’s barrette! See the one with the two leaves? The green parts are emeralds and the gold parts are real gold! Talitha wears it around like all of us and she can turn it into a big shield.”

“Hey Professor!”

“Hmmm?”

“Talitha-chan! Looky at your new design! Isn’t it super-cool?”

“Yep, Forest Girl is looking pretty tough.”

“Wanna fight?”

“Ha!”

“Is Forest Girl talking smack over here?”

“That’s what it sounded like to me.”

“Haha, owned.”

*giggle*

“Professor, you’re too tough.”

“We gots lots more illustrations soon! See ya!”

“Leila-sama! We got another e-mail question from my super-neat Jessie’s Letters page!”

“It is a question with profound meaning?”

“Uh uh.”

“It is a question that seeks the deepest mysteries of the universe?”

“Nope.”

“It is a question that will challenge our understanding of our existence?”

“It’s a question about being a drummer in marching band.”

“Oh, that’s easy.”

“Sometimes Leila frightens me.”

“Heheee… okay. The question says ‘In your story you said the drummers play a cadence. What’s a cadence?’”

“Cake question.”

“Cadence is when the drum section plays a rythym so the rest of the formation can keep time with their steps. We have four cadences in the Lions Band. The first two are full cadences.”

“That’s the one you start!”

“Yeah. Full Cadence Green starts with a roto-tom solo.”

“The other one is our ‘good morning’ cadence.”

“Full Cadence Gold starts with a full section downbeat and cymbal crash.”

“Good morning cadence?”

“We like to play Full Cadence Gold on Collins Circle over behind the school so if anyone in the neighborhood across the street didn’t hear their alarm clock we help them wake up.”

“Yay! Ohayo minna! It’s a bright sunshiney day!”

“Well, except for that one guy who stood in his driveway yelling at us that one day last year.”

“I think he thought we were trying to annoy everyone. Until we marched past his house in parade formation and played ‘National Emblem’ during after-school practice. His wife baked cookies for all of us the next day and brought them to the band room. She said he was so proud to have a parade in front of his house he almost cried. What a nice old couple too.”

“That’s cool. What are the other two cadences?”

“We have one called a ‘Silent Cadence’ if we’re marching up to a performance area at parades. There’s a couple hundred yards where bands aren’t allowed to make a lot of noise because it disrupts the bands in the performance area, so we play that cadence on the rims of our drums.”

“That’s the tick-tock cadence. All drum rims, traps and glockenspiels.”

“That’s the one that sounds like a carnival! I like the tick-tock cadence best.”

“The fourth one is a simple corps cadence. One snare plays the measure downbeats. We use that for starting formations on the field.”

“Now which one do we play in the tunnel at Brown Stadium?”

“Full Cadence Gold, baby.”

“Yeah!”

“Maximum volume. Maximum power.”

“Yay! Arigato minna-san! If you got a question or a comment or just wanna say ‘hi!’ you can send me e-mail on my Jessie’s Letters page and we might even get to answer your question right here on our site! Ja ne!”

“Okay, now I’m starting to wonder who he is.”

“What does exsamency mean?”

“‘Excellency,’ Cici. It’s a way of addressing nobility.”

“She’s a noble?”

“Page three is up. Fury of the Venom Legion updates every Thursday with a brand new color page.”

“yeep!”

“Something good is about to happen to the Warrior of the Sunrise page.”

“No kidding. Wow.”

“Here is a preview of page three of Fury of the Venom Legion our all-new color LadyStar web comic. Fury of the Venom Legion updates every Thursday.”

“This is a preview of page 18 of The Varcarel Jade the free LadyStar web manga. The Varcarel Jade updates every Monday with a new page.”

Nope, but I do have one hell of a sinus infection, which has led (in the last day or so) to the discovery of a drug allergy as well.

Joy.

We'll return with our regularly scheduled blogging on Monday if not before. Until then what are your favorite rereads or the books that you pull out when you're sick because you need to get lost in the comfort of a familiar book?