500000

A retrospective...

100000

200000

300000

400000

Since no one remembers the runners up, here was 500001.

/comics/gvarshikar/500001/

I should have known it would be Gabe.

I also should have sat by my computer waiting to sabotage him.

I bet with a little bit of technical know-how you could bang out a script that could check for comic 499999 every few seconds and just publish yours at the right time. 

I cheated, but only sorta.  I figure it's totally legit if you just happen to make a comic and it's a magic number.  It's pretty bogus if you publish 50 blank Asian girl comics just to run the numbers up quick so you can get the number you want.

I was sort of threading the needle between the two.  I noticed maybe a week ago that we were getting in 500K territory, and every day I'd take a peek and see that we were only inching toward it.

Last night I was chatting with Brad around 10:30 or so when I looked at the front page and noticed choad had just posted 499998.  So I realized it was time to get to work.

While I did have to pad 10 comics, I made an effort to not make them all total shit.  I kinda like these:

499999

499996

499994

499992

Those comics are a lot funnier if you imagine them being performed by the cast of "Hee Haw."

Here is the forum I needed to post these in!

/comics/ottoKorrect/599998/

/comics/ottoKorrect/599999/

/comics/ottoKorrect/600000/