Looks like it's time for round two of our little review of some of the web comics out there. XKCD's creator, Randall Munroe is a former contractor for NASA and works on this basic stick figure comic full time. He describes his comic quite simply as 'a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language' which is aimed at anyone who gets his references to math, programming and other quirky subjects that generally aren't clear to your average internet user. The site hit it's peek in october 2007 with a massive 60 million+ hits and it has also earned it self a mention in 'The Guardian' and 'The New York Times' on more than one occasion. The site is also known to make fun of pop culture references of the time which is shown below, in this case it's anonymous (4chan) and the twilight series.

Xkcd is known online for relying on decent content, orginal and CLEAN ideas that have helped it establish a substantial user base that rivals that of lesser comics such as Cyanide and Happiness. Anyhoo I hope you enjoyed todays comic and please post a comment on what you thought so hopefully I can do a better job of the next one! Sorry if some of these comics (like yesterdays) are a bit artifacty, it might be a good idea to view them on the xkcd.com site if you can. See you with tomorrows review!

Cyanide and Happiness is an extremely popular yet contraverial web comic that is perverse and is known to overstep the mark on a regular basis. This particular web comic was one of the first few to encourage 'leeching' of their material onto social networking sites such as myspace, bebo and facebook. It is also known to popup on many different blogging sites as well as 4chan (which speaks for itself). One critic describes it as 'an eclectic mix of cynicism and vile toilet humor. No plot, story, characters or themes. Randomness ensues...' yet there is occasionally characters and plot devices which do reoccur throughout the comic series and you will notice this as you read. The stories tend to base themselves around eye stabbing super villians, clueless male protagonists, toilet humour, sexual inuendo and a whole bunch of other references you won't understand and don't WANT to understand. The comics do however rely on an implied meaning most of the time which is positive because it makes them seem less explicit.

The name of 'Cyanide and Happiness' came quickly after the release of one of their first comics (shown above). Keep your eyes open for the reviews of some other top web comics and be sure to go check out some more Cyanide and Happiness at Explosm.net! Check out some more of their comics below.

Although everyone has a chance to post whatever websites, jokes or other content they want to via the Content Submission link in the User Menu, I will also post some scheduled stuff every week so that I can make a start and get everyone's ideas flowing!

This weeks 'big topic' will be web comics and hopefully you people will find some really great ones and post them via our content submission section... here are the web comics we're going to look at in no particular order.

Monday: Cyanide and Happiness
Tuesday: XKCD
Wednesday: The Order of the Stick
Thursday: Penny Arcade
Friday: CTRL + ALT + DEL
Saturday: Questionable Content
Sunday: Between Failure

So ladies and gents (mainly gents) if you have a comic that you want to review and add to our 'websites' section or if you just want to show off your favourite actual comic from one of these websites then feel free to submit it to the 'picture' section in the Content Submission link in the User Menu.

1. New Use Registration - Registration is now open, users can register and use some of the members only features
2. Content Submission - If you wish to, you can now submit content if you are registered and have read the submission rules which are avaliable via the 'submission rules' link in the main menu
3. Forums - The forum is now installed and being tweaked as we speak, with any luck it will be ready for posting before long
4. Videos - If you have a youtube link or other video you wish to submit to the site, then you are welcome to do this via the video submission part of the site!
5. Comments - You can now comment on any posts made on the site!
6. Other smaller updates + features are coming!

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