Comment count

Hi LazyPawn. Anything is possible!!!! Sometimes.

Can you pass along your site url and/or theme?

Cheers.

The site is lazypawn.com/wordpress.

Can you try editing your code to this:
<?php $commentscount = get_comments_number(); echo $commentscount; ?>

And here’s a tutorial that might help as well.
https://www.studionashvegas.com/tutorial/displaying-comment-number-next-to-posts/

Good luck. Happy WPing!