Ah, finally, a long chapter put away with a joke.
Of course, this weekend is a bad time to be writing a story about the humor that can be found in mass murder. I can defend it; there are a lot of subjects that you must laugh at to avoid crying. But I’ll ask that people wait until the first book is done before making any moral judgements about the story. Tell me then whether or not you think its heart is in the right place.
Those of you who have been reading for a while will remember that I used to take a week off between chapters. I don’t waste that time; I use it to create advertisements and advance the buffer. I haven’t run any ads in several months, and I want to create a flyer to hand out at Worldcon in Chicago this year.
So let’s make this official: There will be no comic page on Monday, 7/30/12. The comic will return with chapter 6 on Monday, 8/6/12. However, I might put something up next monday just to keep you all entertained. And please, speak up to let me know whether or not you mind these twice-a-year breaks.
So stay tuned. Chapter 6 is when a lot of answers drop, and I think they’ll blow your mind. 🙂
Jacob: (sigh) Probably.
Girii: (sob)
Been reading from the start – please don’t stop or feel that others think less of this story just because some tie it in with the madness others do for self-aggrandisement. You’re doing a stellar job IMHO.
Part of the point of telling a story is to pass on wisdom – if you want people to fight monsters you have to show them what monsters do.
Thank you, Paul. It makes me feel good, knowing that someone gets it already.
How do you get visitors if you don’t run ads?
We have a consistent readership of about 1,500 people that come in every week. With ads that balloons to 2,000-2,500; about 500 new visitors per page, and a small fraction of those stick around to become regular readers. So far I consider those numbers a success, a great floor of support that I expect to grow.
We still get a trickle of new visitors even without ads. They either find the comic with a web search, on a list of comics at an aggregator site (GM is popular on piperka and belfry), or if they follow a link from my signature on the forums I post on.
But yes, I do want to do more ads. The old ones stopped working, though — I had saturated the market. I’ll need new ads to draw in new eyes. And when we get near the end of the first book there’ll be a big ad push — I’m learning animation, and making other grandiose plans. It’ll be about 2 1/2 years from now and should be fun.
Breaks are fine, yes.
I find good webcomics by seeing people link to them in their forums profile’s bylines. It’s a small thing, but it drives some traffic. You can ask for people to put the webcomic in their forum byline, and perhaps you can offer to do a guest drawing of something to do with whatever forum it is that drives the most traffic to this site.
All you need to do is check the web traffic do-hickies.
I’ll do this from one site I use called ‘zerosumgames’ and see what happens.
🙂
I’m grateful for any help you want to give in getting the word out, but I don’t want you to spam other boards or bother other webcomic artists. I have plans. Those plans involve paid ads, calling in some big name favors, and a trick or two that I hope will go viral.
Genocide Man is a comfortable mid-sized webcomic with potential to grow — I’m fine with that, for now. Don’t worry about the traffic numbers, let me do that. 🙂
Disturbing sight indeed…
Thanks to the Lord(and Airbus), this is no longer possible, except maybe to Airbus, since everybody else now fabricate Airplanes with manual disconnects.
But, if you feel lucky, you still can ride Airbusses…See the latest Superjet Sukhoi crash…they MANUALLY flew straight into the mountain, clearly marked on their huge GPS screens!
You know, Ming, you actually make me consider a 30-hour train/bus-trip over an hour-and-a-half flight for my upcoming holiday.
I had this choice actually one time, ride a bus home for 30 hours from a budworm spraying job or ride the ample belly of a single engine Grumman TBM Avenger spray plane for a couple hours…Listening the engine’s compressor clutch slipping and whining, I did decide that sleeping all the time on the bus was way better than the two hours white knuckle nightmare on the old wreck.
On the other hand, in your case, you got a better chance of winning the lottery than anything happen on your flight…Dr Fumiaki is not born yet, you know!(And Yevgeny Kasperski is not yet on his vengeance trip)