Faraday the Blob

108. The Magic Eye

Alotron — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:19:26 +0000

Faceblob

Alotron — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:29:07 +0000

*A Faraday Facebook Page Appears*

So you like the Facebook, huh? Now you can like the Facebook and this fantastic webcomic simultaneously via the gift of the new facebook page:

Clicky!

Stay in touch! Complain about erratic update schedules! See sketches and other work in progress bits! See who else loiters around here! Everybody wins.

Comics save lives

Alotron — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:33:54 +0000

Seems UEFA at least have taken the pleas of this comic and the fate of the poor Vuvuzubu to heart…

Uefa bans vuvuzelas from competitions

..there could be hope for them yet!

107. The Vuvuzubu’s Lament

Alotron — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:36:17 +0000

Mark yer diaries – next week’s comic will probably be on Monday too.

106. Head in the Clouds

Alotron — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:09:25 +0000

105. Spacemob

Alotron — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:00:46 +0000

104. Les Connoisseurs

Alotron — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:22 +0000

103. Vampire Weekend

Alotron — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:39:55 +0000

102. Cat’s outta the Bag

Alotron — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:15:27 +0000

The seven Lords of Mew had some mad ideas. And some sweet merch.

The FtB top ten… from No.5 to No.1

Alotron — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:27:37 +0000

Did I say tomorrow? I clearly meant ‘Saturday’. Anyway, here you are: the most popular FtB strips since the beginning from number 5 to number 1…

5. Back Again

Tibetan spiritualism, Molluscs and genocidal tyrants = winning combination! I have actually scripted a few more strips with slug Hitler as a recurring character, but can’t decide if it’s in bad taste or not (edging towards not…)

4. Thick as Cluck

We are all so much chicken soup.

3.Yellow for my Torment

Another of the strips to undergo re-writes right up to publishing, and if I’m honest, I’m still not entirely happy with it. However, this has been probably the most consistently viewed/linked/shared etc. strip I’ve done, so what do I know?! This is also the oldest strip in the top 10, and it’s interesting to see how the design of Mr. Elf in particular has changed over time. My own favourite thing about this one is the monkey in the last panel, I worry that I identify with him more often than not…

2.The Printer of the Dark

I love HP Lovecraft, so I was wary of doing him an injustice with this effort, but I think this does pull off the trick of being both funny and ‘Lovecraftian’. I remember reading ‘The Shadow out of Time’ as a teenager, and experiencing something like vertigo at the scale of his imagination. Amazing.

1. Life’s a picnic…

Here we are then, the runaway winner! This comic has accumulated over three times the views of it’s nearest rival. I am genuinely surprised that this one has ended up here, because it was one of those strips I was ambivalent about as I was posting it. Strip ideas with Faraday getting carried away and dragged underground by ants have existed in my notebook in one shape or form for a long time, but I never was able to work out a satisfactory reason for why that might happen. In then end I just started drawing it and it just kind of wrote itself, and reaction has been excellent… maybe I should try that approach more often!

That’s it! Thanks for reading. You can go home now. Go on. Off you go.