Wasted Talent web comic

Ha, good comic. Funny since I ran accross it before due to the project wonderful ads.

One comment though, the header's tabs look a bit dirty since you can see that they do not total cover the black border.

Edit: Ps: I see wastedtalent is connected to Exploded View, if you see him tell the guy Simulated Product guy that I am looking forward to his next comic.

I love her comic! I read every one through RSS. Glad to see you're on Drupal.

really like what you did with the twitter box. first good presentation of a tweet that i have seen. nice.

Hi There,
Your webcomic Drupal site's very impressive! How tricky do you think it'd be to turn my Dreamweaver webcomic http://starwarsage9.com into a Drupal one?

Thanks
John

As a fellow webcomicer and geek who has also built Drupal webcomic sites (and even wrote a tutorial on doing it with 6.x, at http://www.robhamm.com/legacy/tutorials-and-essays/website-building-and-... ), I admit that I've been too busy being impressed by the site to delve too much into the comic. Yet. :-D

That being the case, and seeing as you're obviously a more advanced user than I am (I often feel that everyone here is more advanced than I am, to be honest), I have a few questions, if you don't mind sharing your expertise. To clarify here, I'm not asking you to solve the below-stated problem for me (unless you really want to), but if you could point me down the right path, I'd appreciate it.

Do you have any insights on a simple way to create traditional webcomic-style navigation without Jeff Eaton's (excellent, life-saving) Custom Pagers module? I ask mainly because it looks like I'll be waiting for a while for a Drupal 7 version of either that or the Webcomic module, and frankly, as great as Custom Pagers is, I'd like to learn how to set up webcomic navigation myself with only core and a couple of the more common and ubiquitous contrib mods (like Views--which I predict will make it into core by Drupal 9).

I've experimented so far with overriding the pager presentation in template.php, but have run into two issues:
1) No matter how a view is sorted, the node that shows first is always labeled "1 of however-many," even if your landing page is the last-added comic, whereas if it's your 785th comic, it should be, "785 of 785."
2) With my pager overrides, no pager at all shows up when the reader goes to the first comic.

Do you think some combination of Views and Node Reference could handle this in a resource-friendly manner? Should I start seeking out mySQL tutorials and just learn to build my own custom query? (It's been over ten years since I did anything of that sort, and my memory isn't getting any better with age.)

Why am I so anxious to move to 7?
The site for my webcomic, Blue Crash Kit (the archives are at http://www.robhamm.com/bluecrashkit/), was the first Drupal site I ever created, and it has gone from Drupal 4.7 all the way to 6.x with all the mistakes I made. When I merged it with, then split it out again from, my blog, the resulting chaos was just... Ew. It's all a frakking mess. So I'd like to start over from scratch, and I figure, why not start over with Drupal 7.x now that we've hit Beta 3 and can reasonably expect a working upgrade path to final release. (And even if not, I can at least get the process down.)

Canadaka, you just solved my pager issue, and your wife's webcomic got another regular reader :) thank you for the help!

Looks great.. I just recently migrated my own web comic over to Drupal, but did not put anywhere near as much work into it as you did.. I need to go look at mine again to see what ideas I can burrow (steal) from your design now.