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POPULAR BY-PROXY

by Tom on January 27th, 2009
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It's probably not good form that I'm talking about Theater Hopper's site traffic with you, but I thought this was a funny story that you might enjoy.

Last night when I got home from work, I settled down at the kitchen table and was checking the site's traffic while Henry was eating dinner. Looking at my logs, traffic to the site was on par with an average Monday. Refreshing the logs a little later, I saw an insane jump in the number of hits. About half of Monday's traffic gathered in the time span of about 15 minutes.

I was checking my referrals to see where the traffic was coming from, but using my real-time counter, could only see they were coming from StumbleUpon. I couldn't see where on my site they were landing.

A Henry finished eating, I folded up my laptop content to wait for Google Analytics to pull the landing page information once it had time to log the traffic a few hours later (Google Analytics runs on a delay).

I gave Henry a bath, put him to bed and left to get a haircut (while Cami was still at home) before coming back to check on the traffic logs. I logged in to Google Analytics and saw that it had been populated with the new data. I checked on Traffic Sources, I went to Referring Sites, I identified StumbleUpon and I filtered the results by landing page.

What was the comic everyone was going so crazy about? This one. A guess strip by Clay and Hampton Yount of Rob and Elliott from 4 years ago.

You probably found this story underwhelming. Imagine how I feel!

In all seriousness, though - Rob and Elliott is an excellent comic and their guest strip from 2005 is actually one of my favorites. If people are checking it out, all the better. Because that means not only are they visiting the site and boosting my numbers, but they're seeing that link back to Rob and Elliot and hopefully checking out more of Clay and Hampton's stuff, too.

I'll just be damned if I can figure out exactly how StumbleUpon works!

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GUEST STRIP – RYAN ESTRADA

by Tom on September 17th, 2008
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GUEST STRIP – RYAN ESTRADA

Do not adjust the internet. Ryan Estrada has taken over. Your regularly scheduled Theater Hopper will resume on Friday.

Hat's off to Ryan Estrada and his wholesale hijacking of this comic and every other. I always get a kick out of seeing Ryan make his mark in this way and am more than happy to play along. Hey, it gives a night off!

So what have I been doing with my night off? Well, I was watching Speed Racer, which came out on DVD yesterday (expect a full review in the near future). I'm kind of kicking myself that I didn't see this in the theater because I'm now a big fan of the visual style. But you know how it goes... They bungled the advertising on this thing - couldn't decide if it was supposed to be a blockbuster or a kid's movie (for the record, it's for kids). Plus, The Wachowski's kind of pissed away their cred after the third Matrix movie.

But, yeah... the movie is a visual feast.

Then again, I'm only half way through it... which was actually going to be my next complaint. For a movie that's supposed to be all about speed, it's ponderously slow with it's pacing. So we'll see how the second act turns out. I don't want to give up too much of my review just yet!

Short and sweet today, guys. That's all I have for you. I'll see you here on Friday with a brand new comic!

Have a great day!

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GUEST COMIC – JOSH ANDERSON

by Tom on June 27th, 2008
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GUEST COMIC – JOSH ANDERSON

I would have been content to let the message I posted about my illness on Wednesday run throughout next week, but this guest strip from Josh Anderson was too timely - and too funny - to pass up. I love how he tossed Gordon and Joe into the mix. And, frankly, the hundred-yard-stare he gave Tom was pretty much how I was feeling for the last two days. Only clammier. Also, a chance to infect Shia LaBeouf? Priceless!

I got a couple of e-mail from people who were spooked when I said I was dying on Wednesday. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to put the fear of God into you, or anything like that. Sometimes I forget the impact words have.

So, to clarify - NOT dying. Just felt like death.

I went to the doctor yesterday and it turns out I have acute tonsillitis. That sounds bad, like I have to have my tonsils removed, or something. Not the case. It's basically an upper respiratory infection that causes white spots on the tonsils - and they're filled with pus! Yum!

The good news is I'm no longer contagious and he has me on a steroid to reduce the swelling an antibiotic to kill the infection. As of this writing, I've already taken two doses and I feel much better. Not 100%, but not wincing from the back pain and migraines my body was delivering as part of the fever that was trying to get rid of the infection. So, yeah. Better.

I still plan on going to Wizard World Chicago this weekend. So if you're in attendance, look me up at table #4308 on Artist's Alley.

Oh, and be sure to send thanks to Josh Anderson for his guest comic by visiting his site Game U. I think you'll like what you find there.

Thanks again for the well wishes and concern. I'll see you all here on Monday!

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GETTIN’ POLITICAL, GETTIN’ COMMERCIAL

by Tom on August 9th, 2004
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By the way, I wanted to let everyone know about a guest strip I did over at Filibuster. J.J. was going to be out of town for a few weeks and asked if I could whip something up for him. I don't mind being a little political from time to time, so I decided to take him up on the opportunity. It has fun with both the Democrats and Republicans, so check it out!

I also wanted to clue everyone in on a t-shirt design I submitted to Threadless. If possible, please vote for my entry. If you could mark the box that says "I'd Buy This" along with a rating of 5, it would really help me out. You can leave comments at the bottom, if you like.

All you have to do is create an account there to vote. It doesn't cost you anything and it doesn't commit you to buying the shirt. Threadless just uses the votes to calculate which shirts will be considered for production. If they choose mine, then I get a percentage of every shirt sold. Plus, it would just be really cool!

Thanks to everyone for their support!

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BEFORE I TOTALLY FORGET…

by Tom on December 9th, 2003
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To help them celebrate three years of European-flavored, gaming-related hilarity, I whipped up a guest comic for Little Gamers. Be sure to stop by the site and check it out. While you're there, drop Madsen a line and congratulate him on the accomplishment!

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