Archive for the ‘voting bonus’ Category

I should really get around to…

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

I’ve got a number of things on the Station V3 “I should really get around to…” list, like getting the second book finished (still “almost there!”), redesigning the web site, drawing more guest strips, etc. Things I’ll get to when I’ve got the time, but of course drawing the comic comes first!

Anyway, I finally got around to a minor(?) item on the list, which I think came from a PodWarp 1999 discussion a couple years ago – trying to draw with a tablet instead of pen and paper. I recently got a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet, and I’ve been trying it out with some different drawing programs. It’ll take a little getting used to, and I’m certainly not ready to start drawing the strip with it yet, but it’s been fun to give it a try.

And since “I should really get around to” putting up another new voting bonus… Vote now and see one of the test drawings, in which the Triangulum alien who stayed behind tries talking to Ebb and a rumormonger after his translation scan fails.

By Request… A Bonus

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

I haven’t said much here the past few weeks… Okay, actually I haven’t said anything! So I’ll say something today.

“Something.”

Of course, you knew that was coming.

There also haven’t been any new voting bonuses, so how about one of those? Vote now and see a new one (from the bonus request list) about what the Triangulum aliens are rEaLLy saying.

Where Have We Seen That Hat Before?

Monday, February 7th, 2011

The Rumormonger who wears the hat with the antenna should be careful… The hat could be related to what Keith Moon’s wearing in the video for Call Me Lightning…

In completely unrelated news, I’ve got some new ads for Station V3 running, using a revised version of this strip. (Hello and welcome if that’s what brought you here today!) If you haven’t seen the ads (or even if you have) and would like to see the revised version of the strip used in them, it’s up now to see when you vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics!

Nice Weather We’re Having

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

If the groundhog is wrong more than half the time, does that mean we would have been better off hoping he WOULD see his shadow and call for a longer winter?

Meanwhile, in today’s new voting bonus strip, it’s Ground-Ebb Day on the Rumormongers’ planet! Vote for Station V3 at TopWebcomics and see if it goes any better than the last time they tried this.

And in other news, for those of you on Facebook, there’s a Station V3 page there now!

Poll Results and Things

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Thanks for all the replies to the “How did you first find Station V3?” poll! I had planned to leave it up a while longer, but apparently the poll plugin I was using made the site use more than its share of the server’s CPU. (In case you were wondering why the site was down for part of last Thursday, that was the reason!) The results were staying about the same as additional votes came in, though… A lot of you first found the site through the Monolith ads, and a lot of you found it through a link from another comic. So I’ll keep running the Monolith ads (which have certainly done better than some of the others I’ve tried), and if any of you have a comic (or other site) and want to link to Station V3, go right ahead! (Some link buttons are available here, if you like that sort of thing!)

Probably the biggest surprise was that nobody voted for the Facebook/Myspace/Twitter option or the Stumbleupon/Reddit option, considering how much traffic has come from some of those sites at times (especially Stumbleupon) – so don’t let that stop you from pressing any of the “share” buttons on any strips you happen to like!

Also, the “comic voting site” option only got a few votes, but I’m going to keep putting up occasional voting bonuses (like the picture of Ebb meeting a Tree of the Celestial Orb that just went up) – they do point at least a few people in V3’s direction, and I enjoy making them! (Also, it gives me something to put in the bonus archive – Which has just been updated again!) :)