I remember making fun of my little sisters and their friends tripping over their Skip-Its. Then they dared me to do better and I got bored after the counter hit a hundred. If everyone present had been about six or eight years older I might have appreciated the way they were impressed…
Regardless, your comic is awesome. Great characters and plot, but the best thing you have going for you is a truly impressive universe. As a wannabe writer I salute your superb skill at world building; cosmology, geography, political groups (both races and nations), the workings of magic and science, all of it.
I’m glad I clicked on your ad on Gunnerkrigg Court last week and I’ve spent most of my free time since going through your archives. Keep up exactly what you’re doing.
W00t! Also glad you checked in, Flushmaster, since I made the ads, and clickthrough doesn’t equal “satisfied customer” (it’s possible to generally correlate the ad response rate to a rise in regular visitors but correlation causation blah blah blah.) So it’s nice to hear from someone directly that it worked as it should, viz., another fellow fan sharing the, um, anticipation, instead of a disappointed non-fan regretting having clicked.
It was a good ad. I almost never even check out ads (I usually find new stuff by recommendations from friends) but it caught my attention enough to check out. Like I said, I’m glad I did.
Again, thanks for sharing — I’m the same way, most of my faves are from recs, but I do check out ads that catch my eye… only most of them turn out to be disappointingly unlike what was hinted at. So I set out to do the opposite with mine, basically to do a visual version of how I’d describe the series to a friend I was trying to get hooked on it (IT IS AWESOME AND THIS IS WHY) but without giving away too many spoilers. (Do you recall which one it was? I’ve run 3 different ads on GK, the banner and two square ones.)
Hah, a skip-it would have a large ball at the end. Not hard to weaponize, just add spikes!
But he certainly is a man who’s not afraid to wear pink. I think pink’s more afraid to wear HIM.
Argh. Nothing like friends/family for making situations worse…
I remember making fun of my little sisters and their friends tripping over their Skip-Its. Then they dared me to do better and I got bored after the counter hit a hundred. If everyone present had been about six or eight years older I might have appreciated the way they were impressed…
Regardless, your comic is awesome. Great characters and plot, but the best thing you have going for you is a truly impressive universe. As a wannabe writer I salute your superb skill at world building; cosmology, geography, political groups (both races and nations), the workings of magic and science, all of it.
I’m glad I clicked on your ad on Gunnerkrigg Court last week and I’ve spent most of my free time since going through your archives. Keep up exactly what you’re doing.
Great to have you here, Flushmaster. I’m glad you enjoy the comic!
W00t! Also glad you checked in, Flushmaster, since I made the ads, and clickthrough doesn’t equal “satisfied customer” (it’s possible to generally correlate the ad response rate to a rise in regular visitors but correlation causation blah blah blah.) So it’s nice to hear from someone directly that it worked as it should, viz., another fellow fan sharing the, um, anticipation, instead of a disappointed non-fan regretting having clicked.
It was a good ad. I almost never even check out ads (I usually find new stuff by recommendations from friends) but it caught my attention enough to check out. Like I said, I’m glad I did.
Again, thanks for sharing — I’m the same way, most of my faves are from recs, but I do check out ads that catch my eye… only most of them turn out to be disappointingly unlike what was hinted at. So I set out to do the opposite with mine, basically to do a visual version of how I’d describe the series to a friend I was trying to get hooked on it (IT IS AWESOME AND THIS IS WHY) but without giving away too many spoilers. (Do you recall which one it was? I’ve run 3 different ads on GK, the banner and two square ones.)