Tuesday Comes a Little Early

Tomorrow is going to be a looooong day, with catch-up dog training and day job (no link for that one, they get all huffy about the Internets over on Wall Street) stuff. So I am cheating and posting about an hour early.

Last week's rant about King Features/DailyInk and their Internet cluelessness made me think that perhaps I should shout out to a couple of the comics that get this online stuff right, at least in my opinion. (There are many strips that do.)

XKCD September 6, 2010 : "Showdown"


You can't get much more "right" than XKCD. The comic is hilarious (especially if you're a bit of geek). The author, Randall Monroe, is innovative with his use of the "title" attribute on the image to include an additional gag, or an explanation if the gag is particularly obscure. Mouse over the comics to see the additional stuff.

Each page on the site contains directions on how to share the comic. (Although I wish he made it easier to include the additional text.) And his about page explains the rules for sharing the comic in plain English.

The site also has a "random" feature that is guaranteed to waste hours of your time. Here are a couple more strips:

"Mission"


"I'm An Idiot"


The New Adventures of Queen Victoria is available on both it's own site and on gocomics.com. Gocomics.com is owned by Universal Press Syndicate and seems to be a decent place to have a popular online comic. The creators are able to put current strips on their own sites, the archives are easy to navigate, and every strip has a "share" button for sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Digg.

New Adventures of Queen Victoria, September 6, 2010


Bizarro is a bit of a paradox. The strip is locked into DailyInk.com's fortress of decrepitude, so when you visit the site's online home and click on the daily comic link, you get something that is more than a month old. And, as I mentioned last week, it is impossible to share the strip without breaking any laws.

But Dan Piraro, the strip's creator, has an almost daily blog that manages to provide more current strips, along with explanations of where the gags came from and recently, strips from his archives. I'm also pretty sure Piraro was the first creator to put an e-mail address in his strip.

Bizarro, September 6, 2010

Last Minute Addition

I couldn't let this pass, especially considering Sunday's mention of Beetle.



Remember, in the land of Beetle sexual harassment and assault aren't just funny, they're funny every day.