30 September 2005
M. Elizabeth Coy
Welcome to the third of five strips solely written by yours truly. (The first two being “Mutual Friends, Mutually Childish” and “Say Goodbye, Honey” and the other two yet to run in the comic.) For those of you who don’t know, in addition to sleeping with the artist, I also co-write on this comic (I can point out which lines are mine on any given page) starting in “Year One” and plotted out the year.
You’ll also get to see what kind of crazy shit goes on in my brain when this year is finished and David and I run our “Guest Strip” week, for which I’ve written a six-part story that ties in with my upcoming novel City of Light, which I wrote for Blogathon 2005 to raise money for the CBLDF.
Anyway, I’m sick of talking about me, so let’s talk about you, shall we?
Hello, reader. I know you are out there. Our stats page show that, without actively advertising (getting David’s visa to come to the US has us pretty broke right about now), we’re averaging 150 hits a day. So, to every one of you, thank you.
Now, of course, while we love our cozy little family of readers, we’d like to expand, to get more people turned on to the goodness that is Shit Happens, and you, friendly reader, can help.
How?
Well first, you can vote for us on the various comic listings we’ve joined. The more votes we get, the higher we rise in the ranks. The higher we rise, the more people see us. You can vote either by clicking the “Vote” buttons to the right, or by clicking the links below:
Vote on Buzz Comics
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Vote on Top Webcomics
You don’t have to be registered on any of those sites to vote, though you can only vote once a day, so please click away!
Now, if you want to go one step further, you can register on some sites and either add us to your favorite comics list (which will get us higher rankings) or write a comment/review about us on our profile, which will also help our rankings:
Review us on Buzz Comics
Add a comment on The Webcomic List
Add to your favorites on Online Comics.net
Add to your favorites on The Webcomic List
Finally, if you are extremely generous, you can pay for some advertising for us. You can either buy us some Buzz Bucks that we can trade in for advertising days or you can buy us a month of advertising on The Webcomic List.
And, if you want some cool swag, our Shit Happens stores in North America and Europe are now open for business! Wear a Luke Perry hoodie! Take a Russian propaganda mug to work! Use a “Whoa!” Vince messenger bag for school! Whatever.
But the most important thing you can possibly do as a fan of the comic is tell other people about it. Post a link on your blog, maybe with a panel or two you find really funny/brilliant/moving/whatever. We absolutely love seeing blogs show up in our referrer stats!
So get out there and talk it up everywhere! If you’re in a comic book store chatting with the clerk, mention the comic. Write down the URL. It can’t be more simple: raincannon.com Remember us when someone tells an amusing anecdote, or just simply when you want to relay a funny story at a party: tell one of ours, and if they laugh, give out the URL.
Just get the word out. That’s what we’re all about.
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