Here are the ten most popular posts here at Yet Another Comics Blog since May 2010 (when Blogger started offering in-house stats for blogs):
Quick First Issue Reviews
I review several comics, including Gødland #1, which was pull-quoted for the trade collection
Quick Superman & Batman Reviews
I give middling reviews to several DC comics, including the final issue of Chuck Austen's notorious JLA arc.
Quick Comic Reviews
I review the second issue of We3, the first issue of Authority Revolution, and an issue of Azzarello & Lee's Superman run.
The Most Popular Graphic Novel in All the Land
It's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, which I took a photograph of a Borders window display.
Friday Night Fights: Hulk vs. The Thing
Who doesn't like to see Bruce & Ben throw down?
Friday Night Fights: Olive Oyl vs. Popeye
Olive pops Popeye one.
The Many Costumes of Wonder Woman
My overview of Wonder Woman's costume changes through the years.
Quick Comics Reviews
I review random issues of Adventures of Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Wolverine.
The Sixth Sign
The apocalypse was nigh upon us in 2004, when William Shatner won his first Emmy award.
Amazon Top 50
No idea why this particular list compilation from August 2010 is so popular.
The first four are an order of magnitude in popularity above the others; I suspect they are coming up often in Google image searches...
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Showing posts with label meta. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Yes, there will be a Free Comic Book Month event this year
Despite the fact that posting has been rather sparse here over the past few months, I do plan on running Free Comic Book Month again this May. This will be the Fifth annual FCBM here at YACB. Look for the official announcement early next week...
Friday, November 07, 2008
Shameless Self Promotion: Video Game Archive
In case you've been wondering what's been keeping me so busy these last few months...
There's an article in yesterday's Michigan Daily (the U-M student newspaper) about our Computer & Video Game Archive: "Archive brings games old and new to students"
I've been posting about the goings-on at the archive over at my other blog, Eaten by a Grue.
Edit: Also, this interview with me just went up over at The Video Game Librarian blog.
There's an article in yesterday's Michigan Daily (the U-M student newspaper) about our Computer & Video Game Archive: "Archive brings games old and new to students"
I've been posting about the goings-on at the archive over at my other blog, Eaten by a Grue.
Edit: Also, this interview with me just went up over at The Video Game Librarian blog.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Blogging About Not Blogging blah blah blah...
Yeah, it's going to be a while more before this blog resumes regular posting. Among other joys, I've been summoned for jury duty next week.
In the meantime, enjoy my review tweets in the sidebar or at my Twitter feed. (Over 1000 review tweets and growing!)
In the meantime, enjoy my review tweets in the sidebar or at my Twitter feed. (Over 1000 review tweets and growing!)
Monday, July 14, 2008
Blogging About Not Blogging is Still a Sin
I'll still be in stealth mode for a bit longer, I'm afraid, though you might see a simple post pop up from time to time. In the meantime, please enjoy the resumption of quick comic reviews in my Twitter feed.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Blogging About Not Blogging is a Sin
This is a heads-up that activity on this blog will be even lighter than usual for the next week or so.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Wordle
I took the text of the posts on the front page of this blog and used Wordle to create a word cloud. (click pic for larger)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Twittering Comics Again
If you've been paying attention to the blue box over at the top of the sidebar, you may have noticed that for the past six months or so it's been static. No more! I'm once again Twittering the comics I'm reading; bite-sized reviews no more than 140 characters. You can follow me at http://twitter.com/davereadscomics
Monday, June 02, 2008
Dave's New Blog
I started up a new blog today:
Eaten by a Grue is a blog devoted to video games in libraries.
Why am I blogging on such a topic? The introductory post may give you a clue...
Don't worry, I'll continue to blog about comics here at YACB. (I may take a short break though to recuperate after Free Comic Book Month...)
Eaten by a Grue is a blog devoted to video games in libraries.
Why am I blogging on such a topic? The introductory post may give you a clue...
Don't worry, I'll continue to blog about comics here at YACB. (I may take a short break though to recuperate after Free Comic Book Month...)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
No more anonymous comments
While in theory I believe in allowing anonymous comments on this blog, in practice the comment spammers have forced me to deny that option. From now on you'll need a Google/Blogger ID or an OpenID to make comments. Sorry folks!
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Blogging About Not Blogging is a Sin
Things this week on YACB are pretty quiet. I'm working on my Favorites of 2007 post, which should be ready to go early next week. Also, tonight is the very first meeting of our new Graphic Narrative Discussion Group, so hopefully tomorrow I'll have a brief report on that.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Comic Blog Popularity Contest
I've always been a bit too fascinated by Website statistics. Waaay back in the mid-90s (an eternity in Internet years) I wrote one of the first programs for doing transaction log analysis of Web server logs.
So of course I obsessively pour over my blog statistics.
I always figured I was on the third tier of comics blogs in terms of readership. The first tier being the blogs that nearly everyone reads, namely Dirk, Tom & Heidi. The second tier being those who have been around for a while and who post either long, highly entertaining posts or who blog frequently, like Mike and Chris1 and Johanna and Dave and others. The third tier being schmoes like me who have been at this for a while but who don't post every day. There's probably a fourth tier as well, mostly those bloggers who are just getting started and who haven't found a readership yet.
Based on the stats I get--and let's be clear, Web stats are an imprecise science at best--I figure that I have about 300 regular readers, and another 250 or so a day who come at me from random linkage2 or Google searches3. So put my total daily-ish readership at 550 people more or less.
In a post today, Johanna reveals that she gets over 3,555 readers a day, which puts her an order of magnitude higher than me and confirms my supposition that she's in a higher 'tier' of the comics blogosphere than me.
So, anyone else want to reveal their comics blog readership numbers?
1 Man, if I worked in a comic shop, I'd no doubt have no end of things to blog about!
2 Getting linked to by ¡Journalista! or When Fangirls Attack or Mangablog is a surefire way to pump up one's blog stats for a day or two.
3 Seriously, if you ever want to get a permanent boost to your Google search stats, write a post titled "Girls in Mini Skirts Kicking People" and get it linked to by Dirk; your Google page rank will soar!
So of course I obsessively pour over my blog statistics.
I always figured I was on the third tier of comics blogs in terms of readership. The first tier being the blogs that nearly everyone reads, namely Dirk, Tom & Heidi. The second tier being those who have been around for a while and who post either long, highly entertaining posts or who blog frequently, like Mike and Chris1 and Johanna and Dave and others. The third tier being schmoes like me who have been at this for a while but who don't post every day. There's probably a fourth tier as well, mostly those bloggers who are just getting started and who haven't found a readership yet.
Based on the stats I get--and let's be clear, Web stats are an imprecise science at best--I figure that I have about 300 regular readers, and another 250 or so a day who come at me from random linkage2 or Google searches3. So put my total daily-ish readership at 550 people more or less.
In a post today, Johanna reveals that she gets over 3,555 readers a day, which puts her an order of magnitude higher than me and confirms my supposition that she's in a higher 'tier' of the comics blogosphere than me.
So, anyone else want to reveal their comics blog readership numbers?
1 Man, if I worked in a comic shop, I'd no doubt have no end of things to blog about!
2 Getting linked to by ¡Journalista! or When Fangirls Attack or Mangablog is a surefire way to pump up one's blog stats for a day or two.
3 Seriously, if you ever want to get a permanent boost to your Google search stats, write a post titled "Girls in Mini Skirts Kicking People" and get it linked to by Dirk; your Google page rank will soar!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
E-mail & Misc.
ITEM! So I stumbled across the fact that when I upgraded this blog to Blogger Beta, Blogger helpfully decided to list my Gmail address as contact information. Not anywhere on the blog itself, but on my profile page and in the feed. Problem is, I almost never check that Gmail address. So if you tried to contact me that way, and it seemed like I was ignoring you, I was actually just ignoring my Gmail. As always, should you wish to contact me, I can be emailed at my regular email address.
ITEM! Not much blogging last week at all. I'd like to say it was because I was hard at work on my script for NaGraNoWriMo, but sadly it was because last week was a hell week. In fact, I haven't been getting much writing done at all. There's no way I'm going to finish by the end of November, but I'll keep plugging along until I get done.
ITEM! I have, however, done much in the way of procrastination. Such as putting a good deal of work into the Comic Series Wiki, creating a bunch of new series pages. Why not drop by and help out by fleshing out information on your favorite series?
ITEM! I did manage to make a small but noticeable dent in my to-be-read pile over the weekend. I'm not really up for writing actual reviews, but I quite liked the second story arc on DMZ (issues #6-10) and thought it was better than the first, and the "Out of Egypt" story in Testament was good too. I read the first trade of Brubaker & Lark's Daredevil and it as fantabulous. I also liked the first issue of Jonathan Hickman's The Nightly News; it reminded me a lot of Brian Wood's early work, except that where Wood typically praises journalists, Hickman's comic has nothing but contempt.
ITEM! Not much blogging last week at all. I'd like to say it was because I was hard at work on my script for NaGraNoWriMo, but sadly it was because last week was a hell week. In fact, I haven't been getting much writing done at all. There's no way I'm going to finish by the end of November, but I'll keep plugging along until I get done.
ITEM! I have, however, done much in the way of procrastination. Such as putting a good deal of work into the Comic Series Wiki, creating a bunch of new series pages. Why not drop by and help out by fleshing out information on your favorite series?
ITEM! I did manage to make a small but noticeable dent in my to-be-read pile over the weekend. I'm not really up for writing actual reviews, but I quite liked the second story arc on DMZ (issues #6-10) and thought it was better than the first, and the "Out of Egypt" story in Testament was good too. I read the first trade of Brubaker & Lark's Daredevil and it as fantabulous. I also liked the first issue of Jonathan Hickman's The Nightly News; it reminded me a lot of Brian Wood's early work, except that where Wood typically praises journalists, Hickman's comic has nothing but contempt.
Friday, October 06, 2006
NaGraNoWriMo
Some of you may be familiar with National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), where the goal is to write a 175-page (50K words) novel during the month of November.
I've decided that I'm going to participate this year, but with a twist.
I'm turning it into National Graphic Novel Writing Month. I'm going to try to write the script for a 175-page graphic novel (a la a TokyoPop or Seven Seas OEL manga book) during the month of November.
I've never writen a comic script before, so I'm sure that the final product won't be much good. But hey, who knows?! I'm not even sure yet what it'll be about, although I have a couple of ideas. In any event, it should prove to be challenging and illuminating; and maybe even a little fun!
I've decided that I'm going to participate this year, but with a twist.
I'm turning it into National Graphic Novel Writing Month. I'm going to try to write the script for a 175-page graphic novel (a la a TokyoPop or Seven Seas OEL manga book) during the month of November.
I've never writen a comic script before, so I'm sure that the final product won't be much good. But hey, who knows?! I'm not even sure yet what it'll be about, although I have a couple of ideas. In any event, it should prove to be challenging and illuminating; and maybe even a little fun!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
We're Beta!
Last night I upgraded this blog to Blogger Beta. Y'all shouldn't notice too much difference; unfortunately, Beta won't improve the quality (or frequency) of my postings. But now I have tagging ability, and I'll be adding them soon (although with over 1100 posts to tag it might take me a while...)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Two Years!
Today marks my two year blogiversary with Yet Another Comics Blog.
Um, Yay?
Anyway, the big event, the 100 Comics Giveway Contest, is still going on; you have until 6pm EDT today to get your entries in. I'll announce the winner tomorrow morning.
Um, Yay?
Anyway, the big event, the 100 Comics Giveway Contest, is still going on; you have until 6pm EDT today to get your entries in. I'll announce the winner tomorrow morning.
Friday, August 04, 2006
Letting You All Down
So I've been a bad comic blogger as of late, with scant posting and whatnot. Sorry, life has been busy and I haven't had much time to read many comics, let alone blog about them.
But I'll be making it all up to you! Come back Tuesday evening when I'll be announcing the Biggest Comic Book Blog Giveaway Contest Ever! It's in honor of my second blogiversary, and it's going to be a big one. I mean it. Stay tuned...
But I'll be making it all up to you! Come back Tuesday evening when I'll be announcing the Biggest Comic Book Blog Giveaway Contest Ever! It's in honor of my second blogiversary, and it's going to be a big one. I mean it. Stay tuned...
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