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Just to get it out of my head
One of many reasons that xkcd is a far worthier holder of the go-to geek-comic-strip title than User Friendly ever was is its approach to sex.
The characters in User Friendly are all terrified of women, except for the one or two characters who are women, and therefore whose job it is to go around being all up ins with the boobies and scaring everyone.
The characters of xkcd (and there are characters, I'm convinced, nameless though they may be) were having stick-figure carnal relations from the get go, more or less. And it turns out that geek-tweaked sex-and-romance humor can be much richer and subtler than nerd-stereotype frustrated-virgin humor. That is all.
You know, I don't think I've been linked to any User Friendly comics in the last 10 years.
The characters in User Friendly are all terrified of women, except for the one or two characters who are women, and therefore whose job it is to go around being all up ins with the boobies and scaring everyone.
The characters of xkcd (and there are characters, I'm convinced, nameless though they may be) were having stick-figure carnal relations from the get go, more or less. And it turns out that geek-tweaked sex-and-romance humor can be much richer and subtler than nerd-stereotype frustrated-virgin humor. That is all.
You know, I don't think I've been linked to any User Friendly comics in the last 10 years.
I'll pass on both
Both comics help to ghettoize nerds in an unproductive way. That is, both celebrate the dysfunctional coping mechanisms many nerd engage in. I can't get behind that.
What I do like are comics that appeal to a rich intellectual life, which is what both Bloom County, The Far Side (and even Zippy) did.
Re: I'll pass on both
Re: I'll pass on both
Zippy was hilarious back in the 1980s. Griffith sort of got stuck in a loop after that.