Okay the "search this webcomic archives by dialogue or character thing" may be a story we'll need to lay off for awhile (previous similar stories here and here) but I just discovered Bruno's search engine (which is a work in progress that covers most of the 2001 and 2002 strips) and noticed that you can download the script for it. So if you have a cgi-enabled site, and rough knowledge of PERL, this script may be a jumpstart to creating your own search engine for your webcomic.