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

We have a great list this week, featuring an official valentine, a heart-to-heart mother-daughter talk, and all other manner of mushy stuff. Don't fret, though; we have skull-bashing, too.

If you haven't checked in for a couple of weeks, you should know that we have a new comic or two on the list! There are even a couple of comics that don't always update on the list this week.

What is your favorite comic this week? Drop a line in the comments section. It was close for me, but I really did giggle at that valentine!

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

There's another new comic to add to the list this week, folks! It's called Lo'meath & Huilii, and there's plenty for you to read to catch up to the latest updates. At the very least, it comes highly recommended by Tokkar, so how can you say no?

• Away From Reality (S)motherly Love. I bet she bought that last item, too!
• Tokkar and Jekk Mixed Signals and Learning the Ropes
• Arena-Inside Hot hot hot! and Reloaded
• NPC A Different Addon and Late to the Game
• Kuo Fox Rain 32

Earlier today, the European Battle.net community site announced the release of both the latest set of collectible World of Warcraft action figures and a brand new collection of Alliance- and Horde-themed coins. ... Wait a second, haven't we seen those coins before?

Oh. Yeah. We did. We saw them at Comic-Con in 2009. I'm going to cut Blizzard a break on this one and assume it doesn't control DC Direct's production and distribution facilities. So ... DC, this one's for you. Holy crap, guys. Almost three years ago! Three!

Well, anyway, if you're looking to spend your hard-earned coins on different coins that aren't worth as much as the ones you started with, you can purchase them on the North American Blizzard Store for $49.99 USD per set or on the European Blizzard Store for £56.95.

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It's really the littlest (and on occasion, the dumbest) things that often make this game so much fun. Druids have long been used to abusing flight form for the purpose of dropping it and falling in a graceful arc over mountainsides or hills. Why? Because it was there. Because flying bears abusing the momentum from dropping a 451% speed form are funny. Because nobody else could do it without dying.

But when patch 4.3 hit, we were disappointed to discover that this marvelous little trick was no longer possible. No matter the angle in flight form, you'd drop straight down as soon as you'd left it, which resulted in an unexpected death for yours truly flying over the border to Un'Goro on an archaeology run. You never really appreciate the laws of physics until they're not there anymore.

But no longer! As of patch 4.3.2, the momentum after leaving flight form is back. Bears are once again able to soar majestically over mountainsides, and I am able to free fall over the Un'Goro rim without going splat on the border. Thank you, Blizzard!

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

We have lots of comic-related news this week. WoW-eh? updated, after leaving us on a bit of a cliffhanger. Tokkar has also settled on a brand-spanking new name and storyline, Tokkar & Jekk: The Early Years. This reportedly happened while musing in the scary rain-box, kitty sitting idly by. And I thought I was the only one who did this!

Fourth Wall has started updating again, as has GU Comics. Well, OK, apparently GU has been updating with WoW-related content for a while now, and I just had neglected to check. For a while.

A favorite character might be bald now.

Finally, Complex Actions just celebrated its 200th-comic anniversary! Grats!

About 10 years ago, a guy called Ben Schott published a little book of completely random facts on equally random subjects. It was called Schott's Original Miscellany, and it went on to become a surprise bestseller for the simple reason that it was really fun to read.

I think it's high time for a World of Warcraft version. Some of these you may know, particularly if you've played the game for a long time, but I hope some are new.

Five months into The Burning Crusade, priests had the unique distinction of having the most popular 31-point talent in the game (Shadowform) and the least popular 31-point talent (Lightwell).

The phrase "Tichondrius is not for you" did not debut with the Arena system, as is popularly believed. The earliest reports trace it to a sign held up at BlizzCon 2005.

Nova from the aborted Starcraft: Ghost is in the game, on a small island floating off the southern coast of Netherstorm at 41,82. She is rarely visible, but a small shrine on the island flashes the letters of her name.

You can still see WoW Insider's first-ever post, published on Nov. 23, 2005. It was immediately declared "the worst thing that ever happened to WoW Insider."

If you were looking for a female player in classic World of Warcraft, she was most likely to be playing a night elf druid. She was least likely to be playing a troll or orc shaman.

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

This week's list might be on the small side, but at least one of the web comics has an activity that could keep you busy for quite awhile! If you find the Easter eggs, you can link them in the comments section if you wish; anyone who doesn't want their fun spoiled can hunt for themselves!

Know of any new comics or comics that have recently started updating again? Leave a comment!

• What's Shakin' Page 66
• The Daily Blink Creative Usage of Game Mechanics and Post-Traumatic Grind Disorder
• The Black Dragons Chronicles Da-Fus-Ro! pt 2
• Teh Gladiators Knock, Knock...

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

WoW, eh? has updated this week! And if you didn't hear last week, Tales from the Crossroads is back.

If you haven't checked us out in awhile, we have a couple relatively new comics to the list, including (and most recently) Trigonometry Comics.

Know of any new comics, or any comics that have recently updated after a hiatus? Leave a comment in the comments section!

• NPC Amazingly Invested and Intervention and Humble Plan -- I can't wait to see how this turns out!
• Sara & Kleeyo Aspect of Death and God of Death
• Tales from the Crossroads Kindred Spirits part 3 and Kindred Spirits #1 "A Stormy Beginning"

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

I have good news this week: Tales from the Crossroads is back! Check out Kindred Spirits part 1 and part 2. In case you missed his comment last week, Tokkar wrote:

So the story of Tokkar and his friends has, indeed, come to an end; however, the story of those whose lives were shared with them will continue on.

• AFR The Old and the New
• Guilded Age
• Kuo Fox Rain 27
• DLC New Year's Resolutions
• Trigonometry Comics Red in Morning, Page 16

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This Tuesday, Allison's grip on reality is less certain than her grip on a bottle of cough syrup.

Sadly, I do not have a cool poem for this past year. 2011 was not a particularly poetic experience, and not just because I spent like two weeks of it without power or with trees on my house or with a new Maine Coon kitten that literally bit through my headphone wires, occasioning a small crisis on my end before I realized they were the cheap ones I got for like five bucks on sale somewhere. But still. If you're new to this tradition (four years running!), I spend the last few weeks of every year catching various illnesses from my relatives, mainlining cough syrup, and then stumbling to a computer to write a year in review column that the editors have to publish because they don't have anything else in the site queue.

So now, dear readers, I will take you on a small tour through the year that was. The other alternative is I take everyone on a run through Zul'Aman, but you'd be safer next to a Cub Scout with matches and poor impulse control, so we're not going to do that.

Oh, and if you care about this sort of thing:

• The druid of 2008 The first year I got sick and unwisely decided that a surfeit of cough syrup would allow me to finish a column on time.
• The druid of 2009 "The ridiculously-popular death knight was, in many ways, designed to counter the restoration druid, although I am hedging this somewhat by saying in many ways instead of definitely, and counter instead of annihilate."
• The druid of 2010 Letitia, the official fashion consultant and Snark Passenger to the Shifting Perspectives column, makes her second appearance to remind me that I am not a shirtless Christian Bale.

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

Torment of the Week has updated! Check out Nothing Normal and Mega Justice. Otherwise, you shall not meet the shocktopus and be very sad.

Because we didn't run a list Christmas morning, this week's list is extra-long and full. As always, if you know of a new comic or one that has updated that has been dormant awhile, let me know in the comments section. Enjoy!

• LFG #523 and #524 and #525 and #526
• Complex Actions Cheetah Gryphons (sketch) and The Guys Are Slugs, But the Girls Are Cute! and Merry Christmas and a Brightly Stitched New Year
• Teh Gladiators Auction the Big Orange Thing (keep clicking next!)
• The Black Dragons Chronicles Hertenclaus part 2 and Christmas Filler #3 and #4 and #5 and Hertenclaus part 3 and Christmas Filler #6 and #7 and Hertenclaus part 4 and Celebration Announcement
• The Warcraft Hero in When Ogres Attack and Mortal Man
• Arena-Inside Transformation

Silversol: You cast symbiosis on a warlock. You get soul swap. They get symbiosis. Combat log divides by zero. Your computer gets sucked into a black hole.

Patch 4.3 went live on Nov. 29 to much rejoicing (well, from everyone barring a very unhappy legion of restoration druids smarting over the Wild Growth nerf), and Blizzard saw it, and said that it was good, and rested on Sunday, and then went back to nerfing everything on Monday.

Also, Skyrim was released around the middle of the month, and we didn't hear from several of our staffers for weeks.

@Druidis4fite The AH Fee structure is a regressive tax on the poor. #OccupyGregStreet
@Warcraft This movement doesn't seem to have a clear message. -- CM Lylirra

As with all BlizzCon-related months, October was jam-packed and probably the busiest month of 2011 for the site.

However, this bit of news belongs in a special category all its own: Hello and Goodbye. Dan O'Halloran, our fearless editor-in-chief and a mysterious figure who communicated largely through a series of lolcats, left to head up Tecca, and Alex Ziebart took the reins. Goodbye, farewell, and amen, Dan. By the way, the image you see above is Fox's response to Dan's email earlier this year about restarting the About the Bloggers series.

Curulan: Pigeon raid boss. I love it. GET ON THIS, BLIZZARD.

September was pretty much all patch 4.3, all the time. The PTR didn't actually go live until close to the end of the month, but we definitely made up for lost time when it did. Transmogrification thoughts still dominated the site's more idle discussion -- who doesn't love cool-looking gear? -- but art-related talk kicked into high gear once everyone saw the visual proc off the new rogue legendary. That would go on to provide one of December's better jokes.

Candida: Knitting Grandmas would be an awesome guild name.

Money, money, money, money. Money! August saw an avalanche of money and gold-related discussion as Blizzard announced that Diablo 3 would feature a real-money Auction House. Oh, and Blizzard registered Mists of Pandaria as a trademark, spurring an endless series of fights on what the hell was going on with that. And then it announced transmogrification and void storage, and we all forgot about pandas for a bit in the interest of farming old raids for some sweet-looking gear.

And holy mother of God, Drama Mamas was on a roll this month.