10 comics on one side, three critics on the other. What more could you possibly want? It's the October 2008 edition of Digital Strips Zuda Watch.

Rather than take one creator and crush their soul we figured, hey why not crush three souls. This is a new monthly feature where we'll recommend some strips that we like but are still too young to get a full review. Because some times a strip just is what it is.

One a very special Zuda watch, we learn a whole lot about Midnight. It turns out he's a sensitive man who loves his grandmother and vampires. He's a powerful defender of decency and is not afraid to admit when he is very very wrong. Tune in and we all grow closer together and tear down both emotional walls, and the egos of various Zuda creators.

We also see that Steve doesn't get dirty names very often. Like at all. Even the obvious ones.

Sad Robots. Sad Dinosaurs. Sad Stick Figures. We haven't review this much sad black and white stuff since Pictures for Sad Children. This show takes on The Robot is Sad by Tam Nguyen of The Daily Cougar.

Wow what a show. I don't think I've ever heard the words "pedophile" and "wiener" used so much in a half hour podcast before. And yet here it is. The strip that inspired such bawdy language was Captain Excelsior, a strip that combines the efforts of two experienced creators. Does this super hero have the power to entertain? Or to move you? Tune in to find out.

We think this was the strongest month yet for Zuda, but that doesn't mean there weren't some stinkers. Tune to find out which strips are Digital Strips approved.

Further proof that the world is coming to the end, Jason and Steve do a whole review of a comic featuring topless women without having the whole show be about boobs. Maybe Brigid really is bringing some class this place.

During this years WCCA's there were two strips that cleaned housed: Lackadaisy which we reviewed a while back and all loved, and Octopus Pie which we're reviewing now. Will it also recieve total affection? Tune in now, (or later, when you have time, that's kind of the beauty of podcasting) to find out.

We get back to what we do best, reading one strip and going in deep. This time we take on Planet Saturday, by one of Pacman's old buddies, Monty S. Kane.

This month the Zuda competitors are all returnees from previous rounds. The doubly long comics allowed for us to really see what these creators had, or didn't have. When it's good it's very good. When it bad it very bad. Not much apathy from this crop.

It's the Harvey Awards this time around. We look at Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, E-Z Street, Penny Arcade, Perry Bible Fellowship and The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allen Poo.

This week we take a look at and give our opinions on the Eisner Award nominees for the Best Digital Comic category. We take on The Abominable Charles Christopher,  Immortal, The Process, Panda Xpress! and Sugarshock.

Then we get in to what criteria comics should be judged by and give the strips we think should have been nominated, but weren't.

This week we go after what Jason calls the best strip he's ever reviewed. Good ship Chronicles

Another Month another 10 Zuda Combatants. Who impressed us and who fails to do so, all inside this episode of Digital Strips.

Another month, another Zuda competition and of course, another Zuda Watch. This month's crop is strong for the most part, but that doesn't mean we won't put them all in their place.

One of the most wide spread shows we've had since the Golden age of Daku and Zampson, the three of us tear into Chronicle with our wide and varied opinions. It's good times.

There is an abundance of strips out there but it seems the people who got together and created Koallawallop know some hidden secret. This is the third strip we’ve reviewed from the group and so far it’s simplicity only goes to make this a fantastic story. Here’s what Steve and Jason have to say about it.

What’s come out of the San Diego Comic-Con? Who won the Eisner? Get your post Comic-Con wrap up here.

This will be the first in a series of podcasts to take advantage of summer vacation. Here we have one of my favorite drawn strips in a long time. Join us as we explore this vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. Actually everyone is already dead so we can’t be romantic, we’ll just have to settle for vengence.

In this episode we talk about:

Red Dahlia by John Daiker and Amber “glych? Greenlee

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This week on Digital Strips we talk with Ryan Estrada. Ryan describes himself as Artist, Animator, Adventurer and he has a resume to back that up. His work has taken him across the globe and the top notch cartooning he does makes his work well worth a read. Daku interviews Ryan from Thailand.Also during the show we discuss the start of the Great Web Comics Scavenger Hunt. The topic for the month of August is Pirates. So, gather your list of comics about Pirates and send them in to us as your contest submission.This week we talk about : ryanestrada.com by Ryan Estrada

This week's Entry from the We Love Web Comics Contest:

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Entry sent in by : Andrew JoanisContestant Web Site : Big Cheese Press