Friday, July 4th, 2003	#1173
The Fourth Megaman Game	Belated Fourth of July Comic!

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		The First Strips The Beginning of the Story Mega Man's Missing! The Introduction of the Author The Author as Mega Man The Return of Mega Man The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of George The Hand-drawn Comics I - George's Summer Job The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of Napalm The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Return of Mega Man The Return to the Beginning The Attack of the Yellow Demon The Return of the Author The White Space Why Alcohol is Bad for You The First Megaman Game The Attack on Dr. Wily The Hand-drawn Comics II - Introductions, Version 2.0 The Hand-drawn Comics II - College Orientation Not Again Just Another Day Not Just Another Day The Introduction of George The Introduction of Bob The Attack of Bob The Aftermath of Bob Tales From a Parallel Universe 1 Prelude to a Bad Time A Bad Time Tales From a Parallel Universe 2 Back to the Past The Party The Second Megaman Game - Prologue The Second Megaman Game - The First 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - The Last 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - Back at the Lab The Second Megaman Game - Meanwhile The Second Megaman Game - The Attack on Dr. Wily The Second Megaman Game - The Aftermath Back in the Future The Author's Breakdown Tales From a Parallel Universe 3 Something Stupid The Next Generation Another Coffee Break Tales From a Parallel Universe 4 In the Year 21XX The Arrival of Mynd The Attack of Mynd The Third Megaman Game - The Pregame Show The Third Megaman Game - Magnet Man & Hard Man The Third Megaman Game - Top Man & Shadow Man Tales From a Parallel Time The Second Party The Third Megaman Game - Spark Man & SnakeMan The Third Megaman Game - Needle Man & Gemini Man The Third Megaman Game - Doc Robot The Cataclysm Flashback The Third Megaman Game - The Doc Robot Fight The Third Megaman Game - Resolution Something Different The Attack of Mega Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5 N4T3'5 R3C4P W33K The Fourth Megaman Game - Stalin's Brain The Fourth Megaman Game - Exposition Exposition The Fourth Megaman Game - Fixing Ran Dave's Adventures in Canada The Fourth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress The Third Party The Fourth Megaman Game - Mega Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Bright Man & Pharaoh Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ring Man & Dust Man Non Sequitur The Fourth Megaman Game - Skull, Drill, & Dive Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ran The Fourth Megaman Game - Cossack Bots BnG News Story Time Another Bad Time A Dog's Day George's Bad Day George's Really Bad Day BnG News Exposé Helmeted Preparations Helmeted Attack The Fourth Party The Adventures of Ninja Ned Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 1 The Fifth Megaman Game - Prologue Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 2 The Fifth Megaman Game - Star Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 3 The Fifth Megaman Game - Preparations The Fifth Megaman Game - Robot Masters The Fifth Megaman Game - Month of Destruction The Fifth Megaman Game - Darth Volcanus The Fifth Megaman Game - Wave, Stone, & Charge Man The Fifth Megaman Game - Final Battle The Fifth Megaman Game - Resolution The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Preamble The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Flashback The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Protean The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Charge A&E Biography Month The Fifth Party The Introduction of X The Attack of X The Mind of X, Part 1 Megaman 6 The Mind of X, Part 2 The Aftermath of X Prelude to the Worst Time The Worst Time The First Annual Robot Tournament - Introduction The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 1 The Sixth Party The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 2 The Sixth Megaman Game - Vic The Sixth Megaman Game - Stalling The Sixth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress All Good Things - The First Cycle All Good Things - The Second Cycle All Good Things - The Third Cycle All Good Things - Flashback All Good Things - The Fourth Cycle All Good Things - Mynd All Good Things - Sigma All Good Things - Captain Kinesis The Seventh Party All Good Things - Captain Kinesis All Good Things - The Last Cycle The Return of Bob - Shields The Return of Bob - Standoff The Last Strips The Epilogue

Another Fourth of July comic, and this time we see several references to previous Independence Day comics. First we have Ran and Roll talking about how neither one of them should really be celebrating the Fourth of July, since he's a Communist and she's technically Japanese. Then we have George and Chadling finally able to celebrate in ice cream together. And Proto Man is still torturing Mega Man. But perhaps the most interesting thing about this comic is Mike's line at the end, which was an indicator that this comic came out much later than it was supposed to. Let me explain. As I mentioned in an earlier commentary, I had just graduated with my Master's degree, my lease was up on my grad student apartment, and it was time to move. I ended up moving in with a friend of mine while I looked for a job, and just as I was getting settled in, two disastrous things happened at the same time. First, I lost my internet access, which is obviously expected with any move. But in this case, for reasons I cannot fathom, it took the cable company a month to get around to installing our internet. The TV was hooked up in a few days, but they claimed nothing could be done about the internet until the end of July. Second, I had just moved the site following the disastrous ServerFly debaucle to Myrmid (at the advice of Brian Clevinger from 8-Bit Theater), but just as I was getting moved, there was a major server crash and all the data was lost. Now, separately, neither of these events would be that bad. If it was just loss of regular internet access, I could still sporadically update by visiting friends and using their connections, with everything set to automatically update. And if it was just a server crash I could have re-uploaded everything from my local copy in a few hours. But the two events together proved to be too much and I simply could not get the site back up for over a month. Once I did get my internet hooked up, I had to get everything uploaded again, and then I could start working on the backlog of new comics. I'd still been making new comics, I just didn't have anything to do with them. So once I was able, I started updating multiple comics at a time to catch up. That's why this comic, which is technically the July 4th comic, didn't get updated until August 13th, something I thought to include in the comic itself.

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