Sorry this one took so long. I won't make any excuses just the hope I can stick to a weekly schedule this time. Hope you like this one.

* This is an unpublished strip.

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Resumption of the West Side strips continue after a 2 year hiatus. I aim to post one strip a week, more if there are bonus strips which didn't come out in the paper. Anyhoo, I hope you guys like this one for the new year!

* This is an unpublished strip from the first week of January, 2007.

Here's the last strip for the 2006 set. Yaaaaayyyy!!! Here's something I stumbled on yesterday while looking for references for the background (I mistakenly thought I lost the pictures I took after the firecrackers and the celebration died down around these parts). Interesting thoughts on how we celebrate the New Year, really:

"It is the loudest in the world but the most dangerous since anyone can buy the most extreme firecrackers. It is an exciting event in the Philippines that you won't want to miss." ~ Best and Worst New Year is in the Philippines!!! By A Yahoo! Contributer, 11/04/06

Hehehe... No truer words were ever spoken.

* This strip was published Dec. 27, 2006.

I was originally supposed to redraw Jay (back figure in panels 3 & 4) from the original strip but as I looked over it again I thought it better to redo the whole thing as well. I wasn't really in a drawing mood at the time. I've got one more strip after this before we cap off the ones for 2006. I won't be doing major repairs for the last one so I think it fair to say we wouldn't have to wait a long time for that.

* The original version of this strip was published Dec. 20, 2006.

Another submission after almost half a year's absence in the submission category. Wooohoooo! I hope to get back on track with the submission of two more strips to complete the 2006 set and then I'll be able to prep the ones for 2007 and, hopefully, the ones for this year too. Thanks for waiting and again just leave your comments whether good or bad at the bottom.

* The original version of this strip was published Dec. 20, 2006.

I had trouble with this one because I seem to have lost the background photographs I took in my high school alma mater. I've scanned almost all the CDs I have and I still can't find them.

* This strip was published Dec. 13, 2006.

As promised here's the first of the Christmas strips from last year. I didn't change anything here except to add the background and other colors. Voila!

* This strip was published Dec. 6, 2006.