Guest Comics! xkcd outside of xkcd.com

[beaker]

Looks like XKCD is busting in on some other sites...

These are from Overcompensating http://www.overcompensating.com


Alt Text: The dude has like 50,000 plastic balls

And this one looks like randall did a guest comic based on the above...


(I tried to find the alt text... but there is none. unfortunate)

(by the way, HI! I never had anything to contribute and I just registered because I finally had something to share besides the epic love for the humor in this community)

[Robin S]

The first one has been posted somewhere else. The second one - I'd guess it wasn't drawn by Randall; to me it looks more like someone making a joke out of his awesomeness. Of course, I can't vouch for that, but you could ask him on IRC or by email.

[kimba665]

I love this kind of stuff! In this case, it's one obscure webcomic referencing another obscure webcomic. This is the stuff private jokes are made of!!

[muteKi]

The first one has been posted somewhere else. The second one - I'd guess it wasn't drawn by Randall; to me it looks more like someone making a joke out of his awesomeness. Of course, I can't vouch for that, but you could ask him on IRC or by email.

You mean that the TOP one is by Jeff Rowland of overcompensating and a few other webcomics and that the BOTTOM one is a guest follow-up by Randall himself, right?

[Robin S]

Hmm... I don't know. It just doesn't strike me as Randall's style to have his in-comic persona "hack the internet". I agree it looks a lot like his drawing / writing, though.

[codehead0]

I think I remember seeing a spoof on Cynaide and Happiness once.

[Spoffin]

(I tried to find the alt text... but there is none. unfortunate)

(by the way, HI! I never had anything to contribute and I just registered because I finally had something to share besides the epic love for the humor in this community)

Alt text is "Gerdy fetch my stick figure spray."

Hmm... I don't know. It just doesn't strike me as Randall's style to have his in-comic persona "hack the internet". I agree it looks a lot like his drawing / writing, though.

Friday, February 15, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Today's guest comic comes to you from a grown man with a ball pit, Randall Munroe. We will be together at the RoflCon at the end of April or whatever.

[dmoney]

I love this kind of stuff! In this case, it's one obscure webcomic referencing another obscure webcomic. This is the stuff private jokes are made of!!

I don't think XKCD is that obscure (at least as far as webcomics go). It was making the front page of Reddit there for a while until I lost interest in Reddit. And according to http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=308 its online readership is bigger than Dilbert.

[Banksy]

Let us not forgot the guest Explosm episode! http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/uglygirl.png
XKCD is just too good, it's appearing everywhere!

[Shadic]

I love this kind of stuff! In this case, it's one obscure webcomic referencing another obscure webcomic. This is the stuff private jokes are made of!!

...Ahem.

[prayas]

Just wanted to post this

http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080215.html

Its by Randall and what are we 13 year old girls betting mad about Backstreet boy called Randall? He draws a funny webcomics. Get over it. Stop google stalking him.

[Angua]

I don't know if this should go in this section or not, but feel free to move it to somewhere more appropriate. I like Dinosaur Comics and xkcd, so I like guest strips like this.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001328.html
(I also apologise for not putting the entire comic on here, I haven't figured out how to do it.)

[GodShapedBullet]

I was a bit disappointed to see that Randall Munroe didn't re-draw T-Rex and co. in his own style like the other guest artists did, but the comic was pretty good and I thought Ryan North's title text was especially funny.

[TheMagicalTurtle]

Stick dinosaurs?

Those would be amazing. They would also be frightening as all hell: Stick Dinosaurs can fit anywhere.

[Megums]

I was definitely hoping for a raptor joke. :\

But still, pretty nice!

[Green9090]

That was awesome.

[michaelandjimi]

Seems Mr. Munroe has done a guest comic over at Wondermark. Check it here: http://wondermark.com/guest-randall/


Alt-Text: The things I have seen, Bartleby! A man named Goat See has rediscovered Leonardo's 'Tunnel of Knowledge' festival trick.

Also the stuff about beards lower on the page is cool.

[GodShapedBullet]

Oh yes. From what I understand, Malki ! is a fervent beard enthusiast.

[Comic JK]

Is that an incredibly obscure reference to Herman Melville's story, Bartleby the Scrivener? That would be truly impressive.

[Felstaff]

I thought I'd slodge together all the threads where Randall's done a "Guest Strip"

Randall Munroe @ Dinosaur Comics


Randall Munroe @ Overcompensating


Randall Munroe @ Wondermark


Randall Munroe @ The New Yorker








Randall Munroe @ slight edit of QC


Randall Munroe @ A Smarter Planet


Randall Munroe @ A Smarter Planet

[Random832]

This seems to be the best place this fits in...
http://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/3175415910
http://xkcd.com/1463x.png
original

[Moo]

Not a guest comic but a tribute - check out the alt text on this:
http://xkcd.com/604/
and then the votey (hover on the red button) on the next day's SMBC:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1565

[cparker15]

Comic Link: http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/08/1998.html

Alt Text: xkcd smarter healthcare comic
Title Text: There is none!

Hilarious! Lemme guess... custom handwriting-style font?

Note: The comic page at asmarterplanet.com has commenting built into it.

EDIT: Considering that this is an individual (guest) comic, and considering that this is the forum for individual comic threads, I made the assumption that this was the appropriate place for this thread.

It's certainly a very acceptable misstake, but well, we have a thread for guest comics. A quick search wouldn't have hurt, but it can happen to the best of us. Well except me. '

-fjafjan

[Felstaff]

David Morgan-Mar of Irregular Webcomic did several of these.

massive images, sorry.

Spoiler:

Spoilered that for you

Huge Ackermann? *groan*

[6453893]

What with being the Internet's Official Nerdy Guy, I wonder if Randall ever feels like http://xkcd.com/200/

[Moo]

Uh... that one's been posted. In the FIRST POST.

[6453893]

Uh... that one's been posted. In the FIRST POST.

Duh, to whom did you think the QUOTE BLOCK was attributed?

[Moo]

[DoNotFoldSpindleOrMutilate]

The Bizarro comic shows how to protect yourself from the BHG: http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/2009/08/stick-it.html

(The black hat must have been blown off.)

[Izawwlgood]

The x-men chart is hilarious, if a bit inaccurate (Dude, Cyclops? Over... I dunno... JUBILEE/DAZZLER/BANSHEE???)

Also, storm is not very cool.

[diotimajsh]

I like Jubilee more than Cyclops... even if she is a bit useless.

[quantum_quandary]

The Bizarro comic shows how to protect yourself from the BHG: http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/2009/08/stick-it.html

(The black hat must have been blown off.)

Along with pretty much everyone else in the strip...

[Felstaff]

Found this one while looking at his articles. Very true, too.

[Naurgul]

Very harsh.

[Connington]

Don't feel bad. Judging by his singular post count and poor artistic quality of his avatar and stick figure, I'm guessing it's just something he threw together for a troll. Likely, he's pissed that his comic is more or less obscure, while Randall's is actually supporting him, and so felt a need to vent on the forums of his imagined rival.

Actually, scratch that. He probably put quite a few hours into it, and thinks it a most perfect fusion of humor and polite criticism.

[Jimothy]

1. This comic was made by Stephen Bond, not me. I only found it on his website.
2. I believe the shittyness of the art is an intentional mockery of Monroe's style.
3. Neither I nor Bond publish a webcomic, as far as I know.
4. Of course I just threw this whole thing together, considering that I joined these forums almost a year ago, obviously as part of my big plan to post this one image just now. I've read these forums quite a bit, I just never felt like posting.
5. What the fuck does my avatar have to do with this?
6. Because "I'm pissed?" God knows one can never have an opinion about something popular without being "Just jealous." A classic middle school response, a convenient cop-out to avoid having to actually respond in any valid way.

[AlexanderRM]

Randall Munroe @ The New Yorker

(from the words after those comics):

C.L.: What’s next for XKCD? A book? Television? A second Internet where XKCD is Google?

WIN.

[Connington]

1. This comic was made by Stephen Bond, not me. I only found it on his website.
2. I believe the shittyness of the art is an intentional mockery of Monroe's style.
3. Neither I nor Bond publish a webcomic, as far as I know.
4. Of course I just threw this whole thing together, considering that I joined these forums almost a year ago, obviously as part of my big plan to post this one image just now. I've read these forums quite a bit, I just never felt like posting.
5. What the fuck does my avatar have to do with this?
6. Because "I'm pissed?" God knows one can never have an opinion about something popular without being "Just jealous." A classic middle school response, a convenient cop-out to avoid having to actually respond in any valid way.

The comic wasn't funny, and stank of that sort of sardonic humor people use when they're upset. You had 1 post. Forgive me for putting two and two together.

But seriously, I apologize for that.

[Felstaff]

Regarding the above comic; I don't find it a particularly good parody, or even a parody. It just seems like a groundless and vicious attack from Just Some Nobody. At least with parody, you emphasise, exaggerate and enhance the flaws. And xkcd is pretty ripe for parody, particularly as it is one of the only highly-successful webcomics that is notably poorly-drawn. This, uh, thing insults the comic's audience ('short attention-span dorks') which is, umm, pretty baseless? I mean, I don't know about you, but there are xkcd comics up on the walls of CERN, NASA and the International 10-Foot Science Pole Committee. But hey, if some faceless internet hack calls them short attention-span dorks, who are we to argue? Also, apparently we are a 'defenceless public' (...?)

Anyway, audience-bashing aside (you can see why forum people, who form a core part of the audience in question, dislike this) there are far too many presumptuous things about the author. 'I want to move the world with my writing'. Last I heard Randall Munroe just writes a webcomic, which became very popular. I must have missed the part where he set out his plan for world domination, or where he announced he was delivering a philosophical discourse that would reanimate the dust of Plato just so the old Greek could gasp in wonder.

Anyway; this is just two, of about 6 things, that is painfully crass about that comic. But good luck to Steven Bond or whatever; he's failed at this, but with a little more effort he might be able to create a parody that works one day. It just comes across as a lesson in impotent rage, otherwise.

[SciBoy]

You are confusing simplistic drawing with bad drawing. If you've watched Randall's Google lecture, you'd know that he's very good at drawing and he shows it off in the strip every now and then. Oftentimes it is much harder to make people understand exactly what a character is doing with just a stick figure rather than a fleshed out figure. It requires skill to convey emotion with something that has no face.

As with the parody (the last one), it was harsh and not particularly funny, except for that the character was lying down to fit his text into a frame, that was funny to me.

But I seriously think that Randall should take a break from publishing XKCD for a month or two and come back with some fresh new ideas, they've seemed a little bit strained lately and obscure, even for XKCD...