The Documatic Calcutron

Herein, recorded for posterity, are the shipboard logs of the HMS Stalwart, Britain's chief Astrodynamic Dirigible.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

According to our statistics, about 50 (+/- 10) people out there are regularly checking this comic out. That's just from adding our comic to sites like onlinecomics.net and thewebcomiclist.com, and from adding the link to our site in forum signatures. Maybe later we will add actual Project Wonderful adds and shell out some cash to be featured on the comic listing sites in the near future, but we are also considering leaving ComicGenesis.

Comicgenesis was a great way to start out, but it has some serious design problems. The hoops you have to jump though to even sign up, for example. The fact that you can't put an actual frickin blog on the site and have to plug in a blogger thing. The fact that blogger requires Google accounts, which require unique email accounts, puts too much effort into creating unique user names for the sort of in-character blog posts we wanted to do this whole time. And this morning, there was a goddamn bug with the update system. Comicgenesis is just too uncustomizable for our needs. We are considering getting ComicsPress software and grabbing hosting somewhere else, but there is one thing that is holding us back (aside from having time to get together and hack out a new site)

Feedback. We want to make this comic as best as it can be (hell, the improvement in the first 50 strips already has been remarkable) and we want to hear from the 50 or so people who think that visiting our site is worthy of being part of their day. What do you like? What don't you like? How did you hear about us? What little way have we added joy and solace to your otherwise empty and meaningless lives? Let us know.

1 Comments:

Blogger nobodez said...

Well, at first I didn't really like the art style, but, as you've mentioned, it's improved quite a bit, though I'd still use a bit more fine lines within the characters themselves, it's a style choice, and I can respect that.

I like the fact that you can do both a joke-a-day comic, and still have a cohesive plotline. You'd be surprised how hard that kind of thing is. Plus, aside from the time of day, you guys seem to be updating every day, which is important with a strip this young. Though, I hope you guys are also working up a buffer.

Well, as for how I head about you guys, Jon told me over beer and nachos, but then again, y'all knew that. I just hope that others can find this great and funny strip.

As for the joy an solace, well, I read upwards of forty webcomics a day (though only about 50& of those are dailies, and about 25% are three-a-week comics. Some are even more irregular. But, I stand by those ones because they're good, and they are funny, two things that Prof. Saltine has got in spades.

Oh, and the forth panel flash-forward to Neil Armstrong was just hilarious.

April 24, 2008 6:05 AM  

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