Adding Comments Count Link to Archive List

I’m looking for a way to display the number of comments & popup link for each post after each post’s link in my archive listing. It’s a pretty simple list, alpha list ordered.

So something like:

• This article is great – (linked post count)
• Another article is even better – (linked post count)

Thought this would work but it only displays the link after the last item in the list. Am I close? Thanks in advance…

<?php get_archives('alpha', '50', 'custom', '<li>', '</li>', false); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?>