Accidentally, I’ve discovered another comic gem on the web.

I can’t quite remember how I came across it – because I’ve been reading it for about the last 4 hours, have nearly gone blind, and forgotten to do the Thursday O/S (now that I’m back online after a week of sucky computer problems which include the amazing dead laptop, Windows XP overwriting NTLDR on another computer, a wireless network card that keeps signal for all of 5 seconds and…  okay, deep breath, calm calm…  Okay, I’m better now…)

Anyway, it’s called Dustinland, and if you liked Bill Hicks’ philosophy (and the quote on the front page sums it up nicely), you’ll love this.  There’s elements of Ruben Bolling’s wonderful Tom The Dancing Bug about it, as well, but it’s mainly stand up in a strip, with the occasional Herriman-esque panel full of words too.  Like Tom The Dancing Bug (next time can I say TTDB?) he sometimes does political, sometimes observational, but unlike TTDB (toldja) rarely goes off into surrealistic fancy, preferring to stick with observational humour based around relationships, everyday life, people watching and commenting on what’s happening in the world.

Quick tip: due to the site design, if you’re planning to read the archives, start at the latest and work backwards.  (At least it’s easier than the TTDB archive, although I’m glad that exists at all!)

Yes, okay, I like comics.  User Friendly is the only one I still read on a daily basis*, although at the peak of my habit I used to do Rose is Rose, Robotman, Over The Hedge (round about 1996 I emailed them to say something about a strip, and they emailed back to ask how I thought Hedge humour works in the UK. Well, makes me laugh), Dilbert and about 2 or 3 others whose names escape me as well.

Free OS and free app of the week tomorrow, okay?  Nighty night.

* TTDB and Dustinland are weekly.