Darthmiho on Webcomics

In the mess of all the comics there are to find out on the web, there lies a particular breed that you don't find often, it's the Techie comic, the best example of this genre would have to be the truly epic (if you call an archive that goes back to late 1997 epic) daily comic User Friendly. For anyone that's ever worked in the tech industry, you'll love this, or even if you don't you'll definitely identify with the gang of IT professionals that man the servers at the fictional Canadian ISP, Columbia Internet. The comic for the most part follows the major events in the technology industry of the day, including the imfamous Microsoft anti-trust case, the numerous lawsuits of the SCO group, the never-ending Linux distrobution wars (as waged by the head coder, the system admin, and the chief helpdesk guy). The accuracy of the tech news as put out by this comic is so good that this writter learned about the Apple processor switch in the comic before hearing about it from the rest of the news. But this comic isn't all about tech news, it'a also about the day-in-day-out annoyances those that work in the IT industry deal with, such as the ever persistent idiocy of customers who call the Tech Support line, as well as bone-headed moves of marketing.

Next on our list of techie comics is the less tech and a bit more plot comic, General Protection Fault, or just GPF for short. This comic entails the adventures of a group of, you guessed it, IT professionals working at a small software development firm. While the comic does use a lot of tech in it's setting and elements of it's plot, recently, the comic has done a few notably grand storylines, spanning across more than one dimension. Heck they've even had a good take on the terminator. While the comic doesn't keep the news flowing like User Friendly, it does maintain a high quality plot that keeps making you want to come back for more, the comic's artist, Jeff Darlington, maintains a great update schedule for the fans, by having the comic up many times not long after midnight, you can check your updates before you head to sleep. If you're curious how a software firm and a storyline that takes off of the matrix work together, check this comic out at www.gpf-comics.com.

Now most people with a fair amount of tech background have likely cracked a joke at the expense of the software development titan Microsoft. This writter is guilty of it, but I still use a windows OS because I need it for gaming. And most of the time, tech comics make their focus about poking fun at MS and our friend Bill. Now recently I discovered a comic that turns it around, by renaming just about everything, the webcomic Ubersoft is similar to user friendly in that it follows a lot of tech news, but this time it's from the perspective of Microsoft, the comic is a hilarous twist on the genre. I highly recomend this comic.

Till next time, i'm addicted to webcomics.