diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b1c4ec4..44404ea1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-01-13  Nickolay V. Shmyrev  <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
+
+	* backend/comics/comics-document.c: (comics_regex_quote):
+	
+	Don't overquote special chars except of '. See bug 
+	502500. Thanks to Tom Parker.
+
 2008-01-13  Wouter Bolsterlee  <wbolster@svn.gnome.org>
 
 	* MAINTAINERS:
diff --git a/backend/comics/comics-document.c b/backend/comics/comics-document.c
index 27c28008..004cb8e3 100644
--- a/backend/comics/comics-document.c
+++ b/backend/comics/comics-document.c
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ comics_regex_quote (const char *s)
 	case ']':
 	case '*':
 	case '\\':
+	    *d++ = '\\';
+	    break;
 	case '\'':
 	    *d++ = '\'';
 	    *d++ = '\\';