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Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Happy Monday morning, everyone!

@rlloyd3 asked:

Do we know of any potential changes to Azeroth in WoD? (Stormwind's Park District, for example.)

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Bloodshed! Also, Tokkar and Jekk and Kindred Spirits have both updated.

This week, the list features fishing (for suckers!), a thorny trap, a sexy shower scene, and more!

• NPC Nothing But Red and Dearest Reddest and Under Advisement
• Tokkar & Jekk Burn Out the Night and Shafted
• Kindred Spirits Implications and Fabled Reality
• Away From Reality Mama Drama
• DLC Protocol 18

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Today's Queue is brought to you by Mathew McCurley and the letter F.

Yay, I get to write The Queue today! With a patch 4.1 release candidate on the PTR, as well as the one-year anniversary (April 15) of the Celestial Steed, it seems that we should be expecting many things happening within the next few weeks in WoW. Oh, boy! We live in exciting times.

Sparkle pony, it was almost one year since I wrote about your majesty, your grace and starry beauty. How could anyone say no to the steed from the stars? Now, we have your successor, the winged guardian, a presumably Uldum-esque creature that soars through the cataclysmic skies with the strength of the desert it has been unearthed from. I hope part of the story involves Harrison Jones finding a secret factory under the Temple of Uldum, where 5 million winged guardians await, ready to be sold and taken home "off the lot," as it were.

walkerspace asked:

Dear Queue,

There seems to be an increase in bot activity (while I'm herbing; I want it all!). Is there anything Bizzard can do about it? Or, is the perceived activity simply more characters in the game fighting over the same limited resource?

Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Running parallel to the games we love and enjoy is a world full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?

Last week on The Lawbringer, I introduced you to the world as it is, a battlefield littered with the corpses of stolen accounts, inconvenienced players, and a priceless reputation on the line. This week, we look at concrete solutions to actually helping the gold selling system wind down and remove many of the hurdles that instant gratification with purchasing gold sets up for Blizzard. You might have mixed and angry reactions to what I'm going to talk about, but do give me the benefit of the doubt. I think being open-minded might win this fight.

So what can Blizzard do besides selling its own currency? Here are my suggestions for the first steps that Blizzard needs to take in the new war against gold selling.

Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Running parallel to the games we love and enjoy is a world full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?

The Lawbringer has in the past been used as a personal launching pad for some of the more out-there or esoteric ideas that I have in regards to the World of Warcraft and virtual currency in general. You guys seem to love it, and there's always plenty of great discussion about these ideas. For the next two weeks, I want to introduce you to my thoughts on how Blizzard should be attacking gold sellers and, at the same time, working to remove some of the content gates that gold has erected in the MMO we all love. This week, we will set up the story and the history of it all, and next week, we will talk about hard conclusions.

Gold selling isn't going away as long as fungible and liquid currency exists in MMOs. Gold is "fungible" because it can be exchanged for something exactly like it, at a 1:1 ratio -- gold is gold. Gold is also liquid, as it can be used and exchanged for other goods or services. Short of Blizzard's getting rid of this type of currency altogether or selling its own currency for a cheaper price than gold sellers can furnish it, people will sell gold and items that can be traded.

Blizzard has shown that it has the guts to go after gold selling as an industry but has so far failed in scope to bring down the snake that slowly poisons everything it has worked to build. As sellers become hackers, and as hacking chips away at the good will, reputation, and stability of the game we love to play and the company we love to patronize, there has never been a more urgent time to fight the gold fight. The strategy needs to change from focusing on the people who sell gold to a combination of those that sell and the gold itself.

It's the last Sunday before Christmas, but whether you celebrate it or not, we'll have a treat for you next week on the 26th! Several comic artists are collaborating on a Secret Santa (or Greatfather Winter?) swap. They each have the name of another comic but do not necessarily know who all is participating and don't know who will be drawing their comic. This should be a blast!

Incidentally, if you emailed me and entered as a participant but did not receive my reply email, email me again or check your spam folders.

Enough business; here is the list! It even features several new comics:

• Jinylee. *New!
• WoW, eh?: A Hot Side of Beef
• Away From Reality: There's No Aggro Like Snow Aggro
• Penny-Arcade: A Priori. Also: Wolf of the Year
• Dork Tower. Also check out the one previous. *Never previously featured!
• Out of World: Beneath the Shadow part 4 and part 5
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 17
• Chainsawsuit: Wow What a Difference. Also: Wow This Is Great! *Not previously featured!
• Beyond the Tree: Quest Complete and Dear Edwin
• Teh Gladiators: Gun vs. Cannon: Round 1
• Complex Actions: A Moment with Silk's New Rogue and Or Your Azerothian Destination of Choice
• Tales from the Crossroads: Into the Fire
• Safe Passage
• Coffin Comics: Just a Bad Dream
• Coffin Minis: Buddum Chh
• What's Shakin': Page 15
• Torment of the Week: Long Story Short
• GU Comics: Whassat? and Shave and a Haircut and Intervention
• Dark Legacy Comics: Battle
• Fourth Wall: Simple Like That
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Goblin Loan 1 and Goblin Loan 2 and Lovable Oaf
• Blood and Thunder: On Procrastination
• The Daily Blink: Yes, I'm Aware, I'll Get Letters and Poster #3: Mekkatorque and A Flyer in the Auction House
• Arena-Inside: Indeed He Does! and Indeed He's Not... and THIS ... IS ... CHRISTMAS!
• Travels with Tenthunders: Neither an Alliance, nor a Horde. Discuss
• LFG #417 and #418
• The Warcraft Hero in: How to Fight Your Dragon
• NPC: The Future of Shopping Is Now and The Couple That Wows Together...
• Guilded Age

With Cataclysm descending on Tuesday, excitement is mounting. To help you cope with the anticipation, this week's list of comics is extra long! As always, post your tips in the comments section.

• Three Panel Soul: On Cataclysms
• Demolition Squad: WoW Cataclysm
• Blood and Thunder: On Bad Puns and Future Mums and On the Emergence of Deathwing
• NPC: Worgenation
• Travels with Tenthunders: Nuggets!
• Complex Actions: Artisan Worldbreaker Wanted. Also: Aspect of Noob and Light My Fire
• Fourth Wall: Masochist Healers
• Daily Quests: Stood in the Fire
• Safe Passage
• Nerf NOW!!: Preparations and Fiery Revenge
• Away from Reality: Minimum Settings
• Drunken Pirates Guild: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (a little NSFW)
• Disciplinary Action: I, Gerald
• The Daily Blink: Double Secret Reverse Psychology. Also: Role Reversal and For Unemployed Readers
• Beyond the Tree: Faster and More Intense
• LFG: #413 and #414
• GU Comics: Rwil Mluuglilwr!
• Torment of the Week: Happy Thoughts
• Ctrl+Alt+Del: Shattered Uponst
• Out of World: Beneath the Shadow and Beneath the Shadow part 2
• Cru the Dwarf: Cold as Ice (NSFW)
• The Warcraft Hero in: Deathwing Is Not Happy
• Coffin Comics: Gamon's Revenge
• What's Shakin': Page 13
• Coffin Minis: Game Time
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Grouping Up Also: Pet Selection
• Tales from the Crossroads: Filler! When Real Life Attacks! Then for the comic: There Goes the Neighbourhood
• Slash AFK: WTB Personal Space Also: Rrrgrl-stuffed
• Dark Legacy Comics: A Deal With Deathwing
• Guilded Age
  

I missed Arena-Inside last week (sorry!), so we have some catching up to do. In descending order:

1. Once a Hunter, Always a Hunter...
2. She Brought Her Paper of Pain
3. A Cataclysmas Carol
4. King's Orders
5. Expect the Unexpected!
6. Too Much?

Comic news Skoteinos wrote:

We started an opinion blog that we've introduced a World of Wordcraft Crossword into and thought it'd fit in with the Sunday Funnies theme nicely. Right now we're planning one a month and they need to be printed out to be played, but if people seem to like it and it's popular enough, we'll [do] our best to do them weekly or bi-weekly with associated word searches every other week. We'll also look into investing the money in a program to make them playable online if the demand is there.

Check it out!

The comics

• World of Warcraft, eh?: It's What's on the Inside, Right?
• Tales from the Crossroads: Have I Got a Deal for You!
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 14
• What's Shakin': Page 11
• Coffin Minis: Hard-Mode
• Coffin Comics: Holy Totem
• Torment of the Week: Mind the Gap
• Arena-Inside: They Better Taste of Bacon and Enough With the Biscuit Jokes
• Fourth Wall: Preparation Protocol
• Teh Gladiators: Death and Taxes... and Death
• DLC: A DLC Guide to Alignment
• Travels with Tenthunders: How to Wait Around for the End of the World
• Beyond the Tree: Our Pet Corpse
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Immersion and Grinding and Killing Quests
• The Warcraft Hero in: Early Holidays
• Slash AFK: No moar BlizzCon. /cry. Also: Belly-quakes and Cult Juice
• NPC: Exercise Regimen and Early Bird
• Daily Quests: All Bark and No Baubles
• Out of World: The 'Other' White Meat 3
• Complex Actions: Wake-up Call. Also: Mysteries of Complex Actions Presents: Kes's Type and May We Re-Roll That Stealth Check?
• LFG #409 and #410
• Safe Passage
• Guilded Age
• Away From Reality: Game Over

Disciplinary Action got a really spiffy redesign. Check out Episode 13 to see the new layout. Also check out The Seriously Boring Adventures of Aitrix!

And for a long list of the rest of this week's comics:

• Torment of the Week: Hints and Allocations.
• DLC: Recruitment.
• Slash AFK: For Teh Cosplays. Also: Sheep Mohawk, and Tank Pain, and <3 Alice, and Magically True, and Bul Smells, and Thralled Metzen. /whew!
• The Warcraft Hero in: Prelude to Ruin and Druid Confusion.
• Travels with Tenthunders: We Love the Leader!
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Spirit Guide.
• NPC: Hardware Check and Good Question.
• Fourth Wall: Masters of the Light.
• Beyond the Tree: Like Rare Minerals.
• Tales from the Crossroads: Meet the New Boss.
• Arena-Inside: Life of a Worgen. Also: Those Bedtime Stories Will Give You Nightmares.
• Daily Quests: *Crickets*.
• Out of World: The 'Other' White Meat 2.
• Kuo: Level 0.
• Complex Actions: No, You Can't Rub Her Belly. Also: The Sad Tale of Deathy the Unfortunate Murloc.
• LFG #407 and #408.
• World of Warcraft, eh?: Prelude to Cataclysm.
• Safe Passage.
• The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: The Jawbreaker. Totally worth the wait.
• Guilded Age.
• Teh Gladiators: A Sticky Situation.
• Away From Reality: Everything New is Old Again.
• What's Shakin' Page 10.
• Coffin Minis: Shovel Face. You should definitely check out what's written beneath this.
• Coffin Comics: Use The Holy.

Comic news: Slash AFK posted the following on last week's list:

Slash AFK will be updating (starting this Monday, Nov. 1) seven days per week for two weeks with a BlizzCon comic series I'm doing based off our trip.

So that's ... /does hard math ... 14 days straight of one comic per day, plus a HUGE special comic on the 14th?

What have I gotten myself into? o_o

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Comic News:
The Daily Blink is back!

• Foxtrot's Oct 17 comic
• Beyond the Tree: The Opposite Direction and An Apple a Day
• Fourth Wall: Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
• The Daily Blink: Relapse Also: Know Your Audience
• The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: Shell Shocked and Three Dimensions of Terror
• Daily Quests: BlizzCon!
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 9 and Episode 10
• LFG #401 and #402
• Away From Reality: Out of Focus
• Tales from the Crossroads: It's the Little Things
• Complex Actions: Door Number Two! and Hunter Loot
• What's Shakin': Page 7
• Coffin Minis: K.I.S.S.
• Coffin Comics: Bye Bye Bubble
• Dark Legacy Comics: Turn-In Time
• Torment of the Week: By the Book
• Teh Gladiators: Ze Key Deception!
• Safe Passage
• Out of World: The 'Other' White Meat
• Guilded Age

Away at BlizzCon notices:

• Slash AFK

Comic news: Disgraph is back!

Slash AFK sent me (slightly NSFW?) love! For Amanda Miller... <3. For reasons that are definitely not biased, this is Totally Comic News.

• The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: Never Frog-et.
• Daily Quests: Identity Crisis.
• Tales from the Crossroads: The Thought Plickens.
• Arena-Inside: Part 55. Also: Part 56.
• LFG #397 and #398.
• The Warcraft Hero in: Escape Plan.
• Away From Reality: Heavy Petting. (totally safe for work)
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 7.
• Slash AFK: See above! Also, I Like Trees and Brain Sucker.
• Torment of the Week: General Gushma.
• Beyond the Tree: Parting Ghotis. Also: Dead Mines Tell No Tale.
• Fourth Wall: Provocateur Amateurs.
• Safe Passage.
• WoW, eh?: Apology Accepted.
• Out of World: At the Ball part 15.
• Dark Legacy Comics: Thief.
• What's Shakin': Page 5.
• Coffin Minis: The Winner.
• Coffin Comics: ... vs the world... of Warcraft.
• Guilded Age.
• Teh Gladiators: Ze War Rages On! Click forward three or four times!
• Blood and Thunder: Goblins: The New Race part 1.

Featured comment from last week's list: Disgraph said:

Oh, hey. So I noticed this guy started updating again: http://disgraphtdwarf.net Something about a new web address or other such nonsense.

Frankly, it's about time. I was getting tired of Disgraph being such a bum and falling off the face the earth. Although I have to admit, the author seems very familar ...

Comic news: Congratulations on your 100th comic, Away From Reality!

Tokkar is ill. We wish you well!

Out of World has started a new chapter. Also, there are two new comics on the list this week, so keep an eye out.

• NPC: A Cavern to the East, a Tunnel to the West. (Click back two for non-WoW-related lead-up)
• Daily Quests: And Still Just as Grumpy. Also: Not Eggxactly What I Was Hoping For. Sorry for missing you last week!
• Arena-Inside: Part 53 and Part 54
• Out of Ink: There's No Place Like... and The Trash
• The Warcraft Hero in: That's so Goblin

The comics:

• Kelly Aaron's new comic, Safe Passage, hosted at WoW Insider
• Slash AFK: Nothing to Scratch About. Also: G for the G-Bag and Braces, much?
• Away From Reality: Failure is Gnot an Option
• Travels with Tenthunders: Brewfesht Mem... Memorish... Memoriesh
• WoW, eh?: The Big Reveal
• What's Shakin'
• Torment of the Week: Inevitable
• Complex Actions: A Holy Douche. Also: Dire Straits
• LFG #393 and #394
• Teh Gladiators: It Is Mine! All Mine!
• Coffin Minis: Peacecraft
• Blood and Thunder: On Bad Drinking Jokes. Also: On How He Got His Spec
• Coffin Comics: Happy Brewfest
• Fourth Wall: It Always Ends in Tears. Also: Die for Me
• Nerf Now: Operation Gnomeregan
• Tales from the Crossroads: [Edit] The Eagles, Rolf!
  
• Beyond the Tree: Carrot on a Plate
• NPC: DPS DnD RPG (Click back twice to see the not-WoW-related lead up.)
• Arena-Inside: Part 50. Also: Part 51 and Part 52
• Out of World: At the Ball pt 14
• Dark Legacy Comics: Super Donald #2
• Guilded Age

Last week's featured comment: The discussion last week was so good that I'm just going to link you to the comments page! Thanks for getting the discussion going, ladyaxolotl (of Out of World).

Comic news: Fyreuni announced that "Daily Quests is on hold while I work on Emergency Kindergarten Lesson 2!" I am definitely a little disappointed, but I think the project will be worth it.

Tokkar was also kind enough to point out that Shawn Tommelleo of Coffin Comics has a new project called What's Shakin' that Tommelleo (aka Coffinshaker) described as not set in "WoWland," but it does feature the same characters. Sorry I missed it; the end of August and beginning of September were very hectic!

To answer tr_rrr, Cru the Dwarf and other comics that do not update very often will not necessarily show up on the list as soon as they update, because I don't have the time to check every comic that ever posts something WoW-related each week. I rely on tips and comments and my own whims to learn about them. This is also why Kuo was only added again last week, for example. Thanks for tipping me off that it has updated, though!