This unique Plokta accolade goes to Sue Mason, who provided the following illustration after I asked for a picture of a zombie dachshund wielding a magic sword. As usual, she met a tight deadline and a high level of draughtsmanship, but her quality control seems to have been set on Fruitbat.

Hata la vista, Fido!

I resisted the temptation to e-mail Mark Leeper and ask him to revise his article to cover vorpal machine guns.