Trivial Matters

There are a few webcomics that I visit on a regular basis. Every Friday it’s FreakAngels (http://freakangels.com) by Warren Ellis. I’ve been a fan of Ellis’ comic work for years, and am glad that he finds the time to do a weekly series for free. The art by Paul Duffield is very detailed, and the writing is some of Ellis’ best. I also like the fact that he includes a transcript for each page.

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I read XKCD (http://xkcd.com). If you don’t know what XKCD is, then you probably shouldn’t be on the internet unsupervised. Since returning to school full time, I’ve already heard people trying to quote (or otherwise describe) XKCD in relation to a topic in class. Most recently it was in my Middle East History class. That’s how good it is.

Finally, I visit Ctrl-Alt-Del (http://cad-comic.com) on a daily basis. Tim doesn’t always have a full comic up, but he recently started putting up daily “sillies” which are the size of a newspaper comic (but usually funnier). Ctrl-Alt-Del follows the wacky antics of a couple of gamers and their friends. I enjoy it despite no longer owning a video game console or any computer games. (I can’t begin to imagine how little work I would get done if I was to get ahold of a Wii.)

Since moving to Oregon, my weekly comic book buying has been curbed significantly. (Some day I’ll pull out the boxes in storage, figure out where I left off, and drop a very large list at Things From Another World.) So it is nice to have free comics to read each week.

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