(From xkcd. Click for full-sized round number.) I wanted to take a moment to honor the occasion of xkcd joining the 1000-Update Webcomic Club. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily difficult to crank out 1000 comics, considering how many comics have done so (after all, it’s hardly 2000), but it still requires a minimum of three [...]
(From xkcd. Click for full-sized ghost in the machine.) I’m sick, it’s very late and I’m probably not very coherent right now, but it’s not as late as it was Tuesday night. First a clarification: I stand by most of what I said in my original xkcd review yea so many years ago. I don’t [...]
I went into Spring Break intending to get a lot of stuff done. I’d been building a backlog of things I wanted to do and I wanted to clear as much of it out as possible. And I did get a lot done. Not as much as I intended, but I intended to do a [...]
(From xkcd. Click for full-sized reassurance.) I think I’m regretting choosing this strip for this week’s webcomic post. xkcd is damn near impossible to encapsulate in a single sentence. That’s because, much like Irregular Webcomic, it often feels like several webcomics rolled into one. It bills itself as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and [...]
Here‘s the strip. Here‘s the xkcd. Here‘s the Dinosaur Comics. It used to be that xkcd was full of obscure math jokes, though that seems to have transitioned, in some respects, to something called “human relationships”. Either way, I can’t get into it. Meanwhile, DC has shown that it’s hard to really shake out of [...]