Begin Commentary: Eventually I got an email that cleared everything up, although for the life of me I can of course no longer find it. “Unit 076” was a Malaysian teen named Sidharta who somehow came across my site and was inspired to start a comic of his own. His English, he explained, was pretty basic so he’d had his older brother compose the email.

I came across his site when encouraged by a friend to to poke around the referral logs for my own site — these, if you don’t know, are logs in which I can see all the sites that have recently linked to mine. My friend Andrew suggested that I re-draw his first comic as a sort of homage, which I thought was a delightful idea and which is what prompted Sidharta to email me and thank me.

The whole thing was very positive and fun and a bit baffling. It taught a small lesson about the way things get around when they’re online, and poked a tiny hole in my theory that Nobody Reads This Anyway.

Incidentally this is the only comic to use the “Ouroboros” tag. My site inspired a comic, which I copied and put on my site. The snake eats its own tail. [January 18, 2012]