"Guest Week"?!

I'm pretty excited about Dinosaur Comics this week.

But what I want to know is, on Friday when the xkcd guy guest-authors--will Alex and Nimesh's heads explode??? Or will they simply think that the strip is of medium quality?

Webcomic cynicism

In a recent email thread, people were being cynical about xkcd--which caught me by surprise, because it never even occurred to me to be cynical about xkcd. But after realizing that, yes, it is self-important and that, yes, it does have that vague I-think-I-had-that-idea-in-college quality to it, I can't go back--even though the pop-cultural reference in today's cartoon nearly redeems it.

How to ruin Garfield Minus Garfield

Make a book out of it that's like this:

The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison.

Where's the fun in that? It's a bit like watching a movie for the first time with the commentary track on. Or something.