(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized revenge.) So Ted’s plot isn’t world domination. Instead, he remains what he was from the start: a version of the Linux penguin. This story arc continues to be reminiscent of the early days of Ctrl+Alt+Del, right down to looking to involve versions of real-life high-profile figures being invaded by the [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized conveniences.) Oh, I’ve been really remiss in not talking about the current storyline in Ctrl+Alt+Del. After wrapping up the surprisingly fast and ultimately fruitless KOTOR storyline, Tim Buckley rather abruptly shifted gears to Ethan’s attempt to figure out just what Scott was working on in that locked room. Until the cliffhanger [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized pocket lightsabers.) Okay, forget what I said in the last few paragraphs of my Ctrl+Alt+Del post earlier this week. While this feels awfully short for a CAD storyline (though I suspect it will continue as a strictly KOTOR-centric manner), for the moment it looks for all the world like Buckley, [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized creamy corn niblets.) Before I dropped all my RSS feeds two years ago, I was reading Ctrl+Alt+Del largely wondering where Tim Buckley was going with the darker turn the comic had taken with the miscarriage. I was looking to see whether the comic would go for the good kind of [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized white lantern ring.) I’ve been intrigued by Ctrl+Alt+Del‘s development over the past couple years (most of which I missed). I’ll have more to say about it later, but Tim Buckley has apparently decided to back away from the OMG HUGE CHANGES that were inflicted on the comic in 2008 and [...]
(From The Order of the Stick. Click for full-sized make-out session.) The concept of the Mary Sue used to be so simple. Way back in the days of yore known as “the 1980s”, when the Web was but a gleam in the eye of a few idealists and, as far as those few people who [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized deleted system file.) While Ethan has been getting a bit of a rude awakening in the ins and outs of business, he’s mostly been dealing with it in his own Ethan way, so the biggest evidence Buckley has been on a reformation path is the most recent strip. Doesn’t Lucas [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized performance review.) Normally, I defend Ctrl+Alt+Del. I defend it against accusations of Mary Sue-dom, I defend it against accusations that it’s unchanging, I even defend it against accusations of bad art. But Ethan’s yelling mouth in the last panel… is positively grotesque. As for the storyline? I’m watching it with [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized sperm quest.) If you’ve been following just the main comic of Ctrl+Alt+Del, something happened that you may have missed. Winter-een-mas came and went. Back in November, I expressed my amazement that some people were organizing Winter-een-mas festivities at my school, complete with visual evidence. As it developed, the promotion for [...]
(From Ctrl+Alt+Del. Click for full-sized crash landing.) So the latest “Ethan McManus: Space Archaeologist” storyline is finally over, and I’ve gone back and read through the whole thing. In light of recent events in the main story line, Ethan’s characterization in this story is rather interesting. First of all, the decisions made by the CAD [...]