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This is the first installment in something I’ve been toying with for a while: recounting some memorable moments from my Honours years in the Department of Computing Science at Glasgow University, in comic strip form. There’s a huge wealth of material for future strips, though it remains to be seen how often I’ll add new strips (if indeed I ever do).

It’s important to note here that these are things that actually happened. Today’s episode stars myself and the inimitable Big Chris. Until I set up a decent template for this category in the blog, or move the strips elsewhere (perhaps to my recently-acquired sheercore.com domain), I’ll just link to the strip: here it is. Enjoy.

3 Comments

Chris Miller
25 October 2005 @ 3pm

Dude, I remember that. And scroll bars totally should respond to the force.

Now if I could only submit this comment with my mind, urgh-click.

Kevin Ballard
25 October 2005 @ 4pm

Hehehe.

I don’t know why, but for some reason looking at that comic strip makes me think immediately of Penny Arcade (but in a good way).

Matt
26 October 2005 @ 10am

I’m a big fan of Penny Arcade too, so the strip’s visual style is very heavily inspired by PA. It was only possible at all because Illustrator lets me try, try and try again until I get something that looks decent. As a general rule, I’m utterly rubbish at graphic design and such things.