I'm still stumped on a Halloween costume. My working idea now is the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Erickson and I thought it would be really awesome to be Daft Punk, and it would be awesome — but at this point, I think it's too late to get even a basic outfit together, let alone one with blinkenlights.
I have a couple of new comics to recommend, from opposite ends of the spectrum. Misfile is a story about a couple of teenagers who, through a heavenly filing mishap, wind up with their lives terribly re-arranged. Ash is a guy winds up as a girl, and Emily is a high school senior who loses the last two years of her life and finds herself a sophomore again. Curiously, there is also street racing. Think Kashimashi plus Initial D plus Ah My Goddess. It starts off like most crappy webcomics, but improves drastically as it goes. If you're looking for a cross-gender love story with divine intervention and a lot of geeking out about cars, it's... well, it's probably the only one you'll ever find.
The second webcomic is The Zombie Hunters, a story about a group of "chaotic shortbus" bounty hunters and their misadventures in a zombie-infested world. The story is well done, the art is well done, and it's about zombies. Deviating a little bit from your traditional zombie mythos, there are several classes of zombies. Some are relatively harmless, like the Mercy, but crank up the creepy to 11. It's highly recommended.
And now, I'm going to go drink plenty of fluids and sleep, because I feel ill. :(