I'm sorry, I swore I'd never do this

22 Apr 2007 | categories: [ Share ] tags: [ comicstrip dr mcninja perry bible fellowship saturday morning breakfast cereal wondermark xkcd ]

I told myself this blog would not just be made up of snippets of other people’s work co-opted and written into mine. So I’m very appalled at myself for what I’m about to do - namely: stick someone’s web comic into a post and call it a night.

But damn if this one isn’t really funny. More than that it’s a comic about a future that I feel is really possible and it scares me to death.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic

I’ve only just discovered Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (RSS), but it’s hit-rate is high and I find myself laughing loudly to more than every second one.

It reminds me a little of The Perry Bible Fellowship (RSS), and both of them are kind of crueller, surreal-er versions of The Far Side - what you might get if Garry Larson had regularly maimed his characters or left them devastatingly emotionally scarred.

If you find any of these comics amusing, you might try some of the others I enjoy (click on RSS to immediately subscribe if you trust my taste):
Ctrl-Alt-Del (RSS) - the lives and loves of gamers and their robot.
Dilbert (RSS) - life in a cubicle.
Dr. McNinja (Unofficial RSS) - He’s a Doctor, who’s also a ninja. And he wants to be Batman (but who doesn’t?)
Joy of Tech (RSS) - geek comic.
Wondermark (RSS) - old Victorian era drawings given new life.
xkcd (RSS) - probably the cleverest comic on the web. It’s about romance, joy, maths and velociraptors.

Enjoy!

Comments

I must be getting too old. I Don’t understand most of the jokes in the cartoons on the sites you recommended. Is it that you people are sophisticated, or that I’m rther limited in understanding, or thick, or all three things?

26 May 2007 | http://col.nunnone.com colwal
I don’t think its any of those things Col. Ctrl-Alt-Del, and Dr. McNinja are both long-running stories. Ctrl-Alt-Del is aimed toward and written by a gamer. I like it because of the ongoing story. I like Dr. McNinja because ninjas are cool, and a ninja who’s a doctor is cooler still. The first xkcd I read must have been just right ‘cause I started from the beginning and read them all. When you start you wonder if you’re missing something because the drawing is so simple and almost crude, but as you read you realise that its simplicity is what makes it so charming. The author is also incredibly smart.

So no, it’s not you - but you might have to give it some time to appreciate any of them.

I also have to add Dinosaur Comics to the list. Again - it takes a bit to get used to it, but over time it becomes better and better.

26 May 2007 | http://the.geekorium.com screenbeard

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