Comments on: The Webcomic Overlook #100: xkcd

By: El Santo

El Santo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:05:26 +0000

My sincere apologies. I’m be sure to watch my language in future reviews.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:43:17 +0000

I realize that you didn’t invent the term “creepy sperging manchild”, but I’m an Aspie, and its copious use in the review made me a little uncomfortable

By: S

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:11:26 +0000

“I’M GOING TO DRINK MEGANS BREAST MILK!” THAT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF PRECIOUS!

5 STARS, HOW DARE YOU DEFILE MY PERFECT WEBCOMIC!

Fucking spergers.

By: The Webcomic Overlook #150: Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) « The Webcomic Overlook

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:55:52 +0000

[...] time a year ago, when I was considering it for my milestone 100th review a year ago. (The honor went to xkcd. PHD had to wait for the sesquicentenniariffic 150th review.) I’d read the archives from 1999 [...]

By: El Santo

El Santo — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:09:50 +0000

Thanks! It’s been fixed.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:10:30 +0000

“I liked his recent tribute to Geocities, where Munroe converted the site into a confusing morass of tables, animated gifs, as ugly wallpapers. I thought hismap of online communities was fun, especially trying to mentally catalog all the sites I was familiar with. A similar strip mapping space from a logarithmic scale was, despite all the cutesy nerd references sprinkled throughout, was pretty damn fantastic at illustrating the magnitude of the universe. And he gets the romance thing right once in a while.”

You missed a space in there, between ‘his’ and ‘map’

By: Irrevenoid

Irrevenoid — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:25:34 +0000

I think you’ve missed the point of the billions/millions thing. It’s a specific example of how the phrasing chosen by media outlets influences the way we emotionally absorb facts.

I also liked the essay – sure it lacked subtlety but sometimes a sledgehammer is refreshing when you’re in a rut.

I suspect a lot of the YMMV is that Monroe is cynical, but he’s a ROMANTIC cynic. Readers of a more pragmatic bent probably find him a bit too idealistic…

By: allari

allari — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:22:01 +0000

The Far Side will always rule them all, and he could also draw funny.

I like xkcd but Mr.Munroe is the exception to the rule, i don´t buy brainy excuses for weak art and that includes retard humor.
Some very good writers limit their potential to create a truly stunning piece of comic art by not investing in some drawing skills or teaming up with talented illustrators.

By: The

The — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:27:59 +0000

I for one sometimes relate to the “romance” parts of xkcd. It bothers me to hear people on their high horses say that he’s a creep, what he convey through at least some of those strips are thoughts that I think are quite common to people in love. And most people fall in love. Love is not something some old poets made up because they were bored! And in a way love makes you creepy, the mechanism of love makes you “sexually possessive” (nice way of saying jealous) and very obsessed with a person. People should be able to relate to that when they read instead of saying “this is creepy, this is bad”. It’s creepy yes, but it’s also more than that and for those who can’t relate to that I think they’re either psychologically defect or maybe they just haven’t had any life experience.

By: pudas

pudas — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:31:10 +0000

Three stars? I wouldn’t have guessed based on all the bashing you gave it. Most of the time it sounded like you think the author thinks he’s too smart. There’s some bad eggs amongst the xkcd strips, no doubt (I’m not praising xkcd as the best webcomic or whatever), but e.g. the Angular Momentum one could be considered so “sappy” that it’s actually hilarious.

“It’s not a webcomic about math and physics.” Like you mentioned earlier, no one’s said it’s supposed to be.

“it’s a nerd’s whiny journal comic” And you say that like it’s a bad thing. I think it’s all about the delivery.