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Hey all, I’ve listed my comic on several different places and I would really like to see my ranking go up! You guys are awesome already; I did the math and at the time of this posting we’re in the top 5.4% at The Webcomic List!  The links to the different places where you can find the comic are over to your right; feel free to click on the links and vote on the ones that allow voting! There’s a bit of extra incentive at Top Web Comics; I am going to preview the next sketchbook over there if you vote for me! You can do so by clicking the box to the right or just simply by clicking here.

I think i’ve gotten mostly everything the way I want it, with only a few small exceptions. Let me know if there’s something you would like to see on the site and I’ll see what I can do! Also, Frumph of Comic Easel gets lots of awesome points for walking me through the transfer between ComicPress and Comic Easel; I am NOT a programmer and some of this stuff tends to go over my head!

Also, I mentioned this on Twitter and Facebook, but I’ll also point it out here: there are now Cast, New Reader, and Archive pages! The Cast page in particular is pretty awesome. Not only that, but it’s linked to each comic so that little tags of all characters present pop up with info when you mouse over them. Very useful for when you forget who’s who!

Getting close to the comic’s fourth anniversary (Aug. 31); I’ve got all sorts of stuff planned and it’s really exciting! The first thing I intend to do is a large advertising campaign. While I may have been making comics for four years, I have done a very poor job of marketing the comic. That changes at the start of August! Because of all the new readers, I intend to do a recap of the comic so far. Now, you may be thinking “why a recap? You only update once a week; that’s gonna take a month at least!” Fear not! During the week of the comic’s birthday, I intend to update EVERY DAY.  This will be followed by what I consider to be the comic’s greatest story arc yet. I’ll give you a little teaser: it involves John.

I’m switching the comic over from ComicPress to Comic Easel. Please excuse the mess while I design the new site. Thanks!

So apparently the drama from this post isn’t over yet.  Mother Nature started by freezing Nebraska out through most of spring, and if you recall that also involved a lightning strike on my house.  Well, apparently the air conditioner got fried by that as well, and had been limping along until last Thursday when it finally gave up the ghost.  Luckily, the past week has been nice and cool, but living in a rural area means getting anyone out here, especially on the week of the 4th, takes time.  Got someone out here today and now we have to wait to play the insurance game and it’s gonna be HOT this week! Whee!

Yes, there are now ads on Spoofy Randomness.  The downside of going independent is that I have to pay for my site hosting out of my own pocket.  Previously, ComicGenesis, despite all of its politics and problems, was free.  I also want to try to actually make a little (emphasis on little) something off of this comic so that I can have a little more justification for spending hours per week on it more than “it’s fun to do”.  Expect to see a couple more up, particularly one from Project Wonderful.  I’ll try to keep them as unobtrusive as possible.  Also, PLEASE DO NOT USE AD-BLOCK ON WEBCOMIC PAGES (not limited to just this comic).  Thank you.

So apparently Mother Nature didn’t like my joke on Sunday’s strip. We had a storm roll in Wednesday morning, and lightning fried a bunch of our electronics. The computer was fine (thank GOODNESS), but our internet router and modem, among other things, got fried.

Then to rain on my parade, a spambot decided to storm my comment section while my internet was washed up.  So no more weather jokes from me until this blows over.  I don’t want Mother Nature to press charges against me.

Just a quick plug to mention that Spoofy Randomness is on Comic Rocket! If you’re unfamiliar with Comic Rocket, it’s basically a giant webcomicapaloooza over there.  The big thing that makes it notable other than its size is that it actually takes you to the cartoonist’s site, complete with all of their ads, instead of just ripping off the cartoonist by yoinking their strips.  So yeah, support your favorite comics and read them with Comic Rocket.  You can find Spoofy Randomness here.

What’s that? You use AdBlock? Please turn that off for webcomics. Do that now, or I will have John add you to his Commie list. Seriously, it’s rude.

So apparently tweeting about Communist paranoia can get interesting.  Just removed no less than six Russian spambots from my Twitter.  John would be proud.  Or paranoid that the Commies were watching him, one of the two. Maybe both.

Also, what is the POINT of spamming me if I CAN’T READ RUSSIAN?!?

Finished adding all of the commentary to the archives yesterday!

SR: Scouting and the Sketchbook have been migrated with commentary as well! Eventually they will have their own pages, but for now you can jump over to them in the left sidebar.  Still some tweaking that needs to be done with the site, but overall we’re almost settled in!

Thank you for your patience and keep reading!

So here we are. New site, bringing Spoofy Randomness MUCH closer to going independent. Cool.