A new chapter of Space Pirates in Space will premiere this Thursday. It’s a good one!

Can you believe it’s almost been ten posts since my last blog update? BAD SOCIAL MEDIA GURU. BAD. The good news is we’ve had plenty of time to review all the spam comments that have appeared on the blog since then. For a long time it was just hiking boot companies and feminine hygiene product manufacturers saying generic stuff like “I agree with what your blog post has to say!” But now the spam has taken a turn for the bizarre. It’s like, snippets of long discussions about OTHER shows, like Master Grade Gundam and Game of Thrones and stuff. Weird, weird, weird. These people don’t even seem to have an agenda. Who are you people? And what have you done with our many fans who write things like “Hooray! Space Pirates in Space is the best web/comic/animated/series/thing I’ve ever seen!”?

A couple of exciting milestones are worth announcing. @SpacePiratesX passed its 1,000th follower on Twitter, although after cleaning out some of the spambots we dropped a little below that. But we’ll get it back! Because you’re going to retweet Space Pirates in Space to all your friends. Right? Right!?

We are also excited because a new permanent cast member will be joining the show in the next episode. Spoiler alert! Who could it be? It’s a mystery. Find out this Friday!

Finally, several cast members will be convening this evening to record dialogue for future episodes of Space Pirates in Space. So stay tuned! The fun is just getting started.

Watch: Episode 01.22 – Let’s Get Naked and Relax

We are in the midst of a Twitter push, following fabulous folks far and wide. We’ve chosen some comic and animation people we love and asked them to come check out the site. It’s worked! We’ve doubled our Twitter followers in just 24 hours. So, new people who are not robots, we thank you for coming with us on our adventure.

If you like what we’re doing, tell us! Better yet, tell your friends! The more the merrier. And if you have a question about what we’re doing, drop us a line in the comments. We’d love to answer viewer questions.

Watch: Episode 01.12 – Very Sneaky, Lieutenant

Wow. Ten videos. You know, when we first decided to get into this whole web comic / animated series / awesomeness thing, most of the good advice we received was to make at least ten cartoons before you actually post it to the internet. Why? Because before you commit to making an on-going series, you have to make sure it’s something you actually want to do. You have to make sure you’re capable of maintaining a production schedule. If you can do ten, you can do anything!

The Space Pirates in Space team waited until we had forty-something cartoons in the can, because we’re total screw ups and wanted to play it safe. So, good news! You are going to get a lot more Space Pirates, even if we totally bomb now. But we won’t. We’re gonna keep! On! Trucking! Just for you.

Watch: Episode 01.10 – Report to the Bridge Immediately

Not much to report. Production for Episode 2 is well under way. You are going to LOVE it and you don’t even know why yet.

In other news, we deleted a spam comment today from someone called “Boobsods.” We don’t know what a boobsod is, but it will probably be featured in the aforementioned Episode 2.

The Boozy Blog gets lots of spam — but it’s easy to spot. What we do, is we look at the comment, and if it’s on this blog, we know it’s spam. Why don’t you make this job a bit more difficult, and post some comments on the blog? Ask questions! Tell us we suck. Believe it or not, we’ll respond! Trust us. We have nothing better to do.

Watch: Episode 01.09 – Are You Looking at Porn?

There are buckets all over my apartment, to catch the last remnants of Hurricane Sandy and the runoff from my perpetually defective sink. The bad weather hasn’t done too much to derail Space Pirates in Space. Our release schedule has remained intact, and our numbers are about what I expected at this point in the game.

But there has been a pretty substantial loss of power and transportation to much of New York City, which means I haven’t been able to get to school, and that has had an effect on SPiS that you wouldn’t expect. Classmates with far greater technical know-how than I have been doing lots of wonderful work for me, including whipping the website into shape. The week before Halloween, we were about halfway there, and planned on doing the other half Monday the 29th. Miss Sandy had other plans.

And so you’ll notice the bottom half of our website still looks like yesterday’s newspaper. School starts up again this week, so hopefully I can get someone to do my job for me, and clean up all that social media stuff soon. This is important because it allows you, loyal readers, to follow the Boozy Dragon with ease.

While we still have our scaffolding up, get a head start on staying up to date by following us on Facebook and Twitter, and do us a kindness by sharing our show with your friends and family. Spreading the word is reward enough for us.

Watch: Episode 01.05 – A Bucket or Something

So take out your smart phone and set an alarm. When Carly Rae Jepsen starts singing trhough the tinny speaker, you know it’s time for Space Pirates … IN SPACE!

More updates will come as we need them.

[Edit: Unless explicitly credited, all posts are written by series creator Matt London, and reflect his views and opinions only, even when he uses the term "we" pretentiously.]