Metacomic
It sometimes feels like I’m caring for a rather large and truculent animal, running this comic. There are so many things attached to it, over which I have no control, that it can seem as if it has a life of its own.
There are the daily feedings when I upload strips for it to munch on… and the parasites I remove with the aid of a spam filter… often I catch it wandering around the internet appearing, briefly, on other people’s blogs and sites. It grows too, in my absence, with comments streaming out of its body like fresh limbs.
Every now and then I like to catch it and take down some vital statistics so that I can see how it is doing before releasing it into the wild again:
1. Popular mating calls, used to attract readers through search engines
- the flowfield unity
- obscure gods
- blue snot
- carl andre
- dna comic
- dna and burglary
- protection symbols
- stifflexible
- indigestion when walking
- water torture
- fashion 1958
- spandex
- divine inspiration
- cartoon business people
- art symbols
- ugly things
- colloquial comic
- ming the merciless
- microbiology puns
- sid james laugh
- military symbols
- the “c” word in the hallway
- baphomet
- terrible pun
- float my boat expression
- ghleym
- disco jeans
- 18.10.2007 evil sandwich
- teach a man to fish
- obestiality
2. Number of limbs/comments as of 27.08.08 18.30 GMT
- 6408
3. Weight
- 346 posts
4. Preferred mass
- Catalyst particles
- Number feary
- Universal excuse
- Spy games
- Chimp business
- Nintendo fingers
- Super misnoma
- Ugly things
- Beer child
- Love is not a silent killer
And there we go. I’ve put a tag in its ear and the sedative should wear off in the next couple of hours.
Ty on 
Ben on
Up until recently, the most popular search phrase leading people to my site was “amputee sex”.
That would be the current most popular phrase leading me to you right now…
Creepy, no?
Haha. Well, I’ll tell you what I told people coming to my site based on that search phrase: “You’re about to be disappointed”.
Nice, we had ‘Grandad transvestite sex’ as a high-hitter here, but like your amputee, it has dropped off a little since (i think it was the post ‘Tranma’).
You can just imagine the disappointment on the faces of those coming for kinky sex acts that find web comics and book reviews instead.
Well, you have to hope they get off on books and comics instead…
Who doesn’t?
Well done on the success Adam! You certainly put the hard yards in to deserve it!
Thanks, Ben… it’s as much your work, and the other readers that leave comments too… infact there are nearly 3 times as many words contained within comments than there are in the comics and posts combined.
So, thank you.
We don’t really do much.
You make the comic, find something interesting to talk about, then we all come here, congregate, talk about other stuff, leave bodily fluids everywhere and leave again until a new offering is made.
Nice metaphor. My comic appears to sit patiently, unmoving, waiting for my return. : )
Hibernating creature then?
More like a lonely puppy waiting for me to come home from work and play with it.
Those are some bizarre search keywords Adam, did you plan that or did it just start happening?
Entirely accidental. Except the ‘Flowfield Unity’ ones, they were planned.
I think the rest reflect the diverse and geeky nature of the conversations and the people… that and a fascination with bodily fluids.
Don’t for get the spandex fetish.
Did I ever tell you that I ended up wearing spandex everyday? Those bicycle shorts actually make a difference…
i love how you made that “comic is broken” as a segue into the stats about your comic. good stuff.
Did the hacking cause you much grief? Want us to hunt down the hacker for you and rough ‘em up?
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I went off in search of brain candy now that the Nonist has semi-retired and thank goodness I found you. I loooooove the comic here. Or rather, the one that was here. Or…well, you know. Anyway, thanks for being fun and brilliant.
Welcome to The Flowfield Unity, Lori.
The brain candy is free, so help yourself… there’s a spare jar and plenty to go round.
Thank you for saying hello.