Comic Sans MS

When I worked in PEI I used to have this morning ritual where I’d come in, boot up my computer and then read my daily comics from various websites.  These were all comics that were published in the daily newspapers.  Comis like Dilbert and Get Fuzzy.  But I had also discovered UserFriendly , a webcomic with a computer geek theme.

But once I started my Ph.D. this ritual fell to the wayside … until a year or so ago when I got introduced, what I feel should be required reading for any graduate student, to Piled Higher and Deeper. It captures the graduate student life so well.

Since then I’ve added a couple of regular web comics to my daily list of links I peruse. I really enjoy xkcd a webcomic described as being about “romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. I’ve also discovered Questionable Content, a comic ripe with musical nerdiness. I started reading from the beginning so I’m few years behind the current content (why is everybody laughing?). What I love about reading a comic from the beginning is watching how the author has developed the characters and drawing style.

I found Questionable Content via a link from xkcd. I haven’t had the time to check out more, but I’m sure there’s some other gems lurking out there. Now if I only had the time to investigate more web shows like The Guild (season 2 coming soon!).

The Watch-who?

I’m not a big fan of comic books (sorry, sorry Graphic Novels).  Don’t take that to mean I don’t like them.  I just never got into collecting or regularly reading them.  I enjoy ‘superhero’ movies as much as the next guy.  So when I saw the first trailer for the “Watchmen” I turned to somebody more knowledge than myself and said “The Watch-who, what’s this about?”.  He pulled a copy from the dusty reaches of his shelf and passed it to me and said “It’s about washed up superheroes”.  I was intrigued.  It was good, but not the most mind blowing thing I read.  It was a switch from the usual superhero plots.  That I liked.  All of this rambling was leading up to the fact there’s a new trailer out.  Enjoy.