XKCD?

In light of a topic on another forum, I want to ask the good people of WildGuard, internet enthusiasts as you are, what your thoughts are on the ever popular XKCD.

I appreciate it from time to time, maybe once every forty comics, but I don't really understand its massive internet popularity despite the many other great comics on the internet.

I have class from time to time with the creator's younger brother. Yes, he attends my college. To put him into perspective (the younger brother), he and a friend sword fought with pvc pipe at a talent show on campus, an event which I sorely missed but heard about from others. Thought I should share.

Seems like sometimes when you read something, or listen to a song, etc., you just get the feeling that whoever came up with whatever it is you're looking at has actually got a brain. It's a really subtle pull, but I think that's what takes me to XKCD a couple times a week, if not daily, to see what else he's cooked up.

I know a really good math prof on campus with a decent outer office, I'm actually planning on buying a hardcopy of XKCD and just leaving it there. With a note threatening bloody evisceration to anyone to thinks about "borrowing" it, of course.

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My avatar pic is from XKCD, lol.

I read it. Perhaps not on a regular basis, but I do read it, because it just seems awesome. And the jokes are cool, provided you know what they are about.

http://www.xkcd.com/838/ <-

Those are really funny. I bookmarked it now. lol

Somehow "smart" funny is just funnier.

XKCD is awesome. It's just such a witty and intelligent insight on things.

He has a map of the internet that he updates every once in a while. If you're in tune with what's going on in the world and the cyber-world, then it just makes things that much funnier.

There are definitely some comics that are geared to to people who are computer science people that I simply don't understand... particularly the server jokes. But I can usually solve that by asking my friends in computer engineering.