ShortMinds Webcomic

As the title says, the next big failure, I mean MMORPG finally has a date. September 18th, just 9 days after the release of Spore. I guess removing 4 capital cities didn’t hurt.

All joking aside, good move on their part to get the game out before Blizzard has a chance to re-strangle the market with their next expansion.

Well it is now official. The old characters are gone and the new ones are here to stay. The old characters will always be in my heart and a part of this site on the Origins page.

I’ve spent the evening removing all of the old comics from the comic archive and moving them over to the Origins page. Also the old header image with the old characters has been removed and replaced with something I made a few weeks ago. i just now found the time to add it to the site.

It is now 2:30 a.m. after working on all of that and i haven’t even started sketching out the comic for Friday. So needless to say the comic will not go up tonight, but sometime tomorrow.

Goodnight!

Seems street view snapped pictures of a house being on fire.The original image has been removed, but go North a bit and youll be able to see the image above.

This week has been a great week for the site. The comic Explaining Greatness hit the front page of Reddit which led a massive flood of StumbleUpon users, which led to the comic being posted in various spots all over the intertubes. Usage went through the roof, comments went through the roof, RSS subscribers quadrupled and I learned I am a horrible speller.

I’m still interested to know if Randall ever saw the comic or responded, so if anyone knows please drop me a line.

The feedback hasn’t been negative and really hasn’t been positive. I hope I haven’t sinned against the webcomic community by doing a comic about another webcomic. I guess I will find out as the usage drops off to a normal rate after the stumbles slow down.

I’ve never been shy about posting my numbers in the past, but I want to wait and see how this all plays out before I post any numbers, otherwise I’d just be giving you the good half of the numbers. I am interested in the rate of repeat users over the coming weeks. With 96% new users and only 60% bounce, ONLY, I hope some people bookmarked the site and come back.

Cheers to everyone! Drink one for me while I’m at work.

P.S. Does anyone know why it seems that Feedburner takes forever to update a feed?