episode eight. the tree-like mushrooms that appeared in early episodes of The Gloom were the subject of several theses at the University of Inner Cardiff. An investigation followed.
- In 2002, there was a new comic written by a young Swiss student by the name of Tomsan Kaffas. This was called Nouvelle Sam.
- The original creators of The Gloom bought the rights to this comic for a minor sum, discarded Tomsan's artwork, and proceeded to build their new comic, The Gloom, around the story of Nouvelle Sam.
- Shortly before the Ultrapaste Corporation entered into negotiations to buy The Gloom, Tomsan Kaffas was found dead in Eastern Europe. No autopsy was performed.
episode nineEpisode nine, shown above, has always provoked vicious debate among fans. On the one hand, it introduced the most hated character in the entire comic, the clown. However, episode nine was also the point where The Gloom mushroomed in popularity. Before this it barely had ten hits on its website every day, but with a move of servers to devisland.net and an article about the comic in the Atlanta Times Monthly, The Gloom suddenly had twelve new readers an hour an expenses bill to match.
episodes ten and eleven