Well, here we are two years and 100 strips on.   In honour of this momentous occasion, and as an assist to new readers or those of you who haven’t been arsed to go through the whole archive yet, I give you, in grand webcomics tradition, the 10 most popular strips on FtB.com since launch way back in July 2008.  In reverse order for a bit of drama, nather’lly.

This is a simple excercise in number crunching – the following 10 comic strips don’t necessarily represent reader favourites, or even my own, they are simply the top ten in terms of visitor numbers.  The site’s readership has grown most since the start of 2010, so naturally there’s a bit of a bias towards more recent strips, but there are one or two in here that surprised me.  As with anything, once you’ve created it and set it free there’s no way of telling how it will be received -some of the most popular comics are ones I honestly felt unsure about, while some of my own personal favourites don’t make the list.  Thusly, without further ado here’s the Faraday the Blob top 10, from 10 to 6…  Point your face at it.

10. Up, up and aweigh

Straight away we have one of the strips that I was unsure of myself.  This one went through a lot of dialogue changes (particularly the clowns!) before I finalised it, but reaction to it has been great.

9. Bongo bongo bongo

Ah Fallout 3, consumer of time, destroyer of buffers… An early enough strip, and one of the first to take on a life of it’s own so to speak.  A salutary lesson in the power of pop-culture to drive traffic on the interwebz (a lesson I haven’t learned!).

8. Destination moon

A reflection on the legacy and motivation of the space race on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.  I think this is the only FtB strip without a gag or a punchline (No laughing down the back).

7. Emergency Exit

An unexpected surge in hits from a variety of sources in the last few weeks propels this effort into the top ten.  One of the few dotted through the archives that are based on personal experience.  I think I was having a bad day, but really, how the hell can you talk at full volume for 4 hours non-stop about nothing? Had Faraday’s option been open to me, I might have gone for it…  On the plus side, I did get to see the Northern lights over Greenland on the same flight, so I guess things even out!

6. Pigs might Flu

Sometimes it’s hard to resist being topical… A high proportion of Google hits to this site are for ‘Elephant Transformation’, which helps to explain the presence of this comic at #6… I can’t imagine this is remotely like whatever those people are searching for, but I hope they’re not too disappointed…  On a sidenote, I was reminded of this album cover… guess they didn’t get their inoculations either.

That’s it for now… top 5 tomorrow!

This entry was posted on Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 3:23 pm and is filed under Bloblog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.