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As you've no doubt already learned from timelier Venture news sources (see links in the sidebar), the second half of season 4 ofIt's been a busy month. We've delivered five of our eight episodes to the network. The sixth and seventh have been edited and are currently in the care of our steadfast sound engineer, Dave Paterson , who is literally putting all the bells and whistles on them. In about two weeks, we'll be done with every episode except the hour-long season finale, which we shipped overseas about a month and a half after the rest of the season. Speaking of which...About a week ago, we received the first rough cut footage of the first half of the hour-long season finale episode--which we watched and re-watched with eagle eyes looking for all the mistakes, big and small, and then typed up our usual fourteen page list of retakes. In a little less than two weeks we'll receive the first take of the second half (as well as the second take of the first half) and we'll repeat the same thing. Frith willing, all the retakes will get done swiftly, we'll race through the final picture edit, and we'll actually get that thing on the air when the rest of the episodes are still fresh in your memory.We think you're really going to like these next eight episodes. We liked the last eight a whole lot, and we think these are better. For those of you who didn't like the last eight, well...I can safely say these new ones have more of the things you thought were missing from the last ones, less of the things you thought there was too much of, and quite a few new and unexpected twists . Just lookit this collage of screengrabs, for instance--And, in an effort to avoid being scooped by everyone else, here are the titles of all of this half-season's episodes (some of which were decided at the last minute, while we were making the end credits), in the order in which they'll air..."The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-glider""Pomp & Circuitry""Every Which Way But Zeus""Everybody Comes to Hank's""Bright Lights, Dean City""Assisted Suicide""The Silent Partners""Operation: P.R.O.M."And, lastly, a PLUG...Venture alumnus, super-pal and yiddish-loving Italian-American Stephen DeStefano premiered his new graphic novel, "Lucky In Love" at the San Diego Comic Con, and I was fortunate enough to snag a copy. Now it's your turn. Go buy one:We Love You,JPP.S. Oh yeah, and there's this:We couldn't be happier with how theaction figures came out. Maybe you should buy those, too!