Thread "Is it weird..." in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 31, 2009

…when you find a comic just a little bit before it gets featured? I keep finding EVERY (well not Spiders) featured comic at most a week before its feature! Does this happen to anyone else?

Posted at 6:12AM, Dec. 31, 2009

Hahaha! I'm having the worst feature week of the decade, thank the gods it's almost over. T____T

Thank the gods for Skoolmunkee!

Posted at 3:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

That happens to me sometimes. I'm always really proud of myself when I find a comic before it gets featured. :)

Posted at 5:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

I think I read somewhere that comics get featured almost randomly (like if they are stumbled upon by those who pick featured comics).

Is that accurate?

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

I think I read somewhere that comics get featured almost randomly (like if they are stumbled upon by those who pick featured comics).

Is that accurate?

I'm not sure how exactly it could be any less random than that…but yeah, comics are featured when an admin thinks a comic is notable and could use more attention.

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

I've noticed the 'unnoticed creative webcomic' stickied post on the forum seems to be an eyecatcher for some of the future features.

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

I find them earlier than L33T ;]

Posted at 9:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

It's happened to me almost all the time now. I've not faved any new ones but It's happened about the last ten times.

I don't think it's that unusual. After all if everybody wasn't faving them they probably wouldn't be featured.

Posted at 9:12PM, Dec. 31, 2009

Are you told if you are going to be featured or not?

Or do you just look on the front page and hope you're there?

Posted at 1:01AM, Jan. 1, 2010

People aren't told before they're featured :]

Lots of feature-related info here: How does a comic get featured?

Posted at 3:01AM, Jan. 1, 2010

It's happened to me almost all the time now. I've not faved any new ones but It's happened about the last ten times.

I don't think it's that unusual. After all if everybody wasn't faving them they probably wouldn't be featured.

Yeah but alot of the ones I notice before being featured aren't getting much notice, its like me and a few others and then BAM featured. Of course this may be because I only start reading comics with 30 pages or less, that way I don't have to catch up to much.

Posted at 4:01AM, Jan. 1, 2010

I faved Elspeth about 4 days before it went up, which was weird.

Normally any comic I've faved that gets featured has a week of celebrating then an update saying PERMANENT HIATUS. It always happens. :(

Posted at 5:01AM, Jan. 1, 2010

Normally any comic I've faved that gets featured has a week of celebrating then an update saying PERMANENT HIATUS. It always happens. :(

That doesn't always happens, but it does happen a lot. Maybe we shouldn't feature comics at all?

Naaaw!

Posted at 6:01AM, Jan. 1, 2010

I find them earlier than L33T ;]

I wouldn't bet on that. I sometimes sit there at the home page and refresh until new and good comics come up.

I faved Elspeth about 4 days before it went up, which was weird.

about the same with me… actually, was it 4 days? O_o?
(for some reason I'll go and quote ya again)

Normally any comic I've faved that gets featured has a week of celebrating then an update saying PERMANENT HIATUS. It always happens.

Well…or they just get updated on a server move that I still don't see what it did! OR they soar into the top ten for a week and then drop, never getting that high again. Sometimes a lot of people check out the comic when it's OVER and get it up there-I HATE THAT. What was I talking about again? :). Wanna know what happened with Something Original? It went into the top ten at 13 pages, stayed there for a few days and then lost its spot. It got featured…a month later?

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 1, 2010

I faved Elspeth about 4 days before it went up, which was weird.

Normally any comic I've faved that gets featured has a week of celebrating then an update saying PERMANENT HIATUS. It always happens. :(

That doesn't happen with featured comics, but I've noticed I've faved quite a few webcomics recently that have stopped updating shortly after I've faved them.

I'm cursed, or blessed depending on how you look at it. :)

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 1, 2010

i rarely look at the front page or the newsbar, so i'd never know what was featured.

i feel it's more relaxing that way.

Posted at 2:01PM, Jan. 1, 2010

Occasionally i get to a comic before its featured and becomes cool. But then again. I just read nearly everything that looks slightly appealing.

Posted at 9:01PM, Jan. 1, 2010

That happens to me sometimes. I'm always really proud of myself when I find a comic before it gets featured. :)

That is a great feeling. Then it's like, "I was into it before it was cool!"
I haven't much lately, although I have been enjoying quite a few of the features lately! (So thanks Ozzy and Skool!)

Posted at 4:01AM, Jan. 2, 2010

That is a great feeling. Then it's like, "I was into it before it was cool!"

Ha. My sister has a t-shirt about the same thing except it's about vegitarianism.

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 3, 2010

It's happened to me quite a few times. It also happens to me with bands. I liked gorillaz BEFORE they became a huge crazy success. Same with the Flaming Lips, although i actually hate them. Shoot im getting sidetracked…

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 3, 2010

It's happened to me quite a few times. It also happens to me with bands. I liked gorillaz BEFORE they became a huge crazy success. Same with the Flaming Lips, although i actually hate them. Shoot im getting sidetracked…

The Gorrilaz never really struck it that big.

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 3, 2010

You think? I dunno, I thought they did pretty well. Maybe its because of Feel good inc., Because Apple had a commercial with that song and…Hmm.
I guess you're right. I haven't even heard much of them recently

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 3, 2010

You think? I dunno, I thought they did pretty well. Maybe its because of Feel good inc., Because Apple had a commercial with that song and…Hmm.
I guess you're right. I haven't even heard much of them recently

Well they will have a new album out soon. And Demon DAys was really their only famous album. Out of that, Feel Good inc. was the only famous song. The only other songs that were famous off another album, self titled one, were 19/2000 and Clint Eastwood. I'm not much of a rap fan myself but those guys rule.