SMBC's Starpocalypse Is Just Plain Wrong, And I Can't Stop Watching
At last it’s online — Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Theater’s Starpocalypse is here, and your universe will never be the same again!
Starpocalypse is coming! You chipped in over $76,000 in the Kickstarter for Starpocalypse, the zany science fiction webseries from the sketch-comedy masters SMBC. Now at last, it's coming out this Christmas. Rejoice!
SMBC reveals the Large Hadron Collider's true purpose
What – you didn't really think the LHC was designed to seek out answers to the most confounding questions in all of physics, did you?
This is the nerdiest collection of insults ever and it is the best
The labcoat-wearing brain child of SMBC's Zach Weiner, Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait and illustrator Jess Fink, 27 Nerd Disses is easily the geekiest compendium of haughty one-liners ever assembled. Respect – you unlettered, historically oblivious, woefully innumerate brute.
How did T. rex evolve small forearms?
From Zach Weinersmith's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comes a cautionary tale about technology and evolution.
Hilarious webcomic story imagines the lunar colonies turned into the ultimate reality TV show
Zach Weinersmith's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is always funny and thoughtful, but he's at his sharpest when he's spinning quick comic science fiction stories. This week, Weinersmith takes us to a moon populated entirely by winners of silly contests, and what happens when the lunar colonies are turned into a…
Crowdfund comics about science and scientists, Ralph Bakshi shorts, and Space Invaders chess
If you love science—and laughing both at scientists and with them—there's a great new Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal looking for crowdfunding. Plus, animator Ralph Bakshi has a new independent animated project, a crew of laser cutters is building Space Invaders chess sets, and a puppeteer is working on an…
Pac-Man is a Lovecraft story as written by Franz Kafka
Zach Weiner of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has stared into the heart of Pac-Man and discovered the horror at its core. In his latest comic, he proposes a chilling backstory for the hungry video game hero, one that's a far cry from the smiling yellow creature you see on the arcade cabinet.
Before the aliens arrive, we'll have to clean up the bachelor pad Earth
It would be kind of embarrassing if aliens from a more advanced civilization showed up tomorrow and found the mess of disease, war, and poverty we still haven't gotten around to cleaning up. Zach Weiner's illustrated short story "The Bachelor" describes humanity's frantic effort to make the planet presentable before…
Nerds, Deconstructed
Happy lazy Sunday! Here is a clip from a humorous comic. It's about nerds and empathy. You should read all of it! While you do, I'm off to destroy the universe. [SMBC]
Your Computer Problems Are Almost Definitely Your Own Fault
UGGGHH why is your stupid computer being so stupid all the time! Honestly, it's time to come to grips with the fact that it's probably something you did. We're doing the Kübler-Ross fast-track here, kids. [SMBC via The High Definite]
Cartoonist Trolls Bigots With Web Trickery
When cartoonist Zach Weiner discovered that NOM (an anti-gay marriage lobbying group) had appropriated one of his comics as a hotlink on its website, he fired back in the simplest, cleverest way he could. He changed the image to this.
Webcomic Shatters Fermi Paradox
There's a very good reason we haven't heard a peep from an alien civilization, and probably never will. I think it has something to do with lewd remarks made to a nuclear superpower. Or something. [SMBC - Thanks, Eric]
How To Tell If Your Significant Other Is A Robot
Feeling unloved, but getting plenty of loving? This comic could be interpreted to suggest that such a situation may indicate that your significant other is a robot. [SMBC]
