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.

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