Large Surge in Hit Count Thanks to Stumblers

The beginning of the month saw a HUGE surge in hits for the (x, why?) site on Comic Genesis.

This mostly has to do with Stumble Upon, where people have stumbled upon my pages. Most hit once and are out. A handful stuck around and read most or all of the cartoons. That inflated the hit count.

It looks like it's back to normal now with about 600-700 hits per day.

However, if any of my readers are "Stumblers", please stumble on my site and click the "I like it!" button. And add a Review. It couldn't hurt.

If You Can't Beat 'Em . . .

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Like the title says, if you can't beat 'em, have a cheeseburger.


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Sunday Comic: Super Stick Man 17/18: Pretzel Stick Man & Cerebrum

The new Sunday installment of Super-Stick-Man can be seen here.

This one features the conclusion to the Pretzel Stick Man story -- or does it??

And what does that other villain, Cerebrum, have in store for Our Hero?

Be sure to be here next week for page four of this booklet.

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Verbal Problems

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With those five rings, we can make Linguistic Gymnastics an Olympic event!

Funny thing is that this cartoon was in the queue before the lipstick trouble.

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The Chicago Way

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I keep reading in the paper how they do it in Chicago...
... it keeps making me hungry.

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Sunday: Super-Stick-Man #16: Enter Pretzel-Stick-Man

The second Sunday installment of Super-Stick-Man can be seen here.

As the title says, this one features the notorious Pretzel Stick Man.
Yeah, this is kind of where it started to get really, really weird.

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My high school English teacher was a comic book fan and one of the main reasons I kept doing this strip. He'd even asked, "Burkey, where's the new Stick-Man? I haven't seen one in a while."

He was also a stickler for spelling. Misspelled words were an automatic 10 point deduction on essays. Seriously, one A student had an error with a comma and would've received a 97 -- except for three spelling mistakes, which lowered the grade to 67. No exceptions, even though he thought the essay was "brilliant".

So it's funny today to realize that he never pointed out that I had misspelled "Sinister" at the bottom of the page. Granted, it was page 2 of a four-page booklet, but I'm sure that he should have noticed it. And I probably would've corrected it right then and there.

Well, it's been wrong for 27 years. It can stay wrong.

Points on a Plane!

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The points making the most noise can be called coplanar.

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The 0'Factor, episode 8

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Yeah, that gag was dead as soon as it hit the pan.

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"To Whom Would You Talk"?

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Of course, when Fox reporters ARE the Enemy, your perspecitve changes.

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Sunday Comics

A new feature on the Comic Genesis site will be the Sunday Comic, featuring Super-Stick-Man.

The first Sunday installment can be seen here.

Any objections to making this a weekly feature?

UPDATE: Please hold your comments until the Comic is actually posted.
Last night, I posted this comment after loading the files that were supposed to have appeared this morning on my site. The site has not been updated by their server yet.

Well, that isn't quite true. The main page is updated. You can see the reference to Super-Stick-Man. But the comic itself has not been loaded. I have reloaded the images and have tried to force updates several times.

Comic Genesis's site has not responded yet.

Keep trying. It'll be there eventually.

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Trig's Mom is in the News Again

Regular readers of (x, why?) weren't scratching their heads yesterday and asking, "Sarah who?"

It was noted here back a few months ago on April 20, 2008 that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to a boy named Trig. Trig has been mentioned a few times in the last 24 hours because of his Down's Syndrome.

Pushing the Envelope

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Be sure that the envelope you're pushing isn't really a load-bearing wall.

The fact that summer vacation is over today is totally tangentially to the mood of today's comic.

By the way, I inverted the colors by accident, but I liked how it looked better. What do you think?

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