Hey there! I'm quite new on Tapastic (only a month) and enthusiastically trying to work things out. It's just the way my brain is wired. I like data.
First things first - I think your obscurity is LARGELY due to a monthly update. It's something I considered too because my comic Aetherwar is a long-form comic. (Also interestingly, I have Lovecraftian bent to it. Pleased to meet you fellow Lovecraftian!) And I thought it'd be better for me to give a nice 8 -12 page update a month instead of a weekly affair. However after some research, that's not how this website works (I'm pretty sure of it).
After some dodgy research, I find a daily update would be the most optimum. I'm studying if there is an build up effect if you have posts one day after the other. (Meaning posting Tuesday and Wednesday is more effective than say Tuesday and Thursday. I haven't confirmed this yet). Basically the more often you update, the more your comic gets viewed. Not very complex right? For this reason I have split updating my comic into pages.
I found your status interesting because I rarely encounter a monthly update. It would seem you obtain 1 subscriber per update. Which means you should consider splitting your comics and updating fortnightly or even weekly.
Now beyond the update thing... if I'm to be really honest with you, I did find some of your jokes funny, I even found a lot of your situations particularly interesting and made me pause to consider. But unfortunately, much of your comic is difficult to understand. I'm not the best to advise on humour (which I think is what your comic runs on. A kind of black humour) but I find the punch lines lack the tightness and delivery they need. Perhaps you are trying to communicate too much with each comic? Perhaps breaking down each story into three panel pieces that can be updated on a more regular basis?
Take the abandoned baby one. That is already one heavy subject. Then throw in the topics of alcoholism, homelessness, and child kidnapping, all very unsettling and heavy subjects. Furthermore, the characters are gritty (and unlovable with no redeeming qualities I might add, which some comics do thrive on, but really not my thing). And after all of that, the comic ends on the punch line, "Why is this baby leaking!"... The experience left me with a very disquiet soul and no sense of closure (neither tragedy, triumph, and the humour couldn't make up for the lack).
Perhaps that was your intention all along to give the reader a sense of disturbia? Something to shake us out of our comfortable tech savvy middle class lives? In which case I congratulate you and there are indeed successful comics that do exactly that. But I think most of them do land on closure points (tragic, unsettling, pieces to be sure). And I'm afraid I didn't get that from most of your arcs.
Perhaps breaking the story down into smaller pieces as I suggested might have helped each scene reach some kind of sharp poke at society.
I hope that helps. All the best!
