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1190 is a slow pseudo-animation, posted without any special announcements. It updated one frame roughly every hour since March. You can see the whole sequence (we think its the whole sequence) only on fan sites, such as this.

Geez, what a manipulative waste of time. Randal is a smart guy; maybe that was the point of the exercise: To see just how many morons out there (including myself) followed this banal story to its bitter and anticlimactic end.

For those just dying to poke sharp sticks in their eyes, I recommend this link instead.

I know about a second replay site. It's not as good as the one on geekwagon.net, but it has sound :-)

And don't forget the forum thread, which currently has 51583 posts. In this thread a new religion that worships the One True Comic was started. Also a few new standard units were introduced, based on the NewPix (half an hour), which was later replaced with the LongPix (one hour) when the update interval of the comic changed. People in the thread did extensive analysis of the comic, and later on some started analyzing the forum thread itself. The thread was also the starting point of the replay web sites.

There's an animation here , that allows you to view the past frames, frame by frame. Personally I find it quite intriguing, although, I preferred it at the start when it was more abstract.

and I feed bad for possibly slashdotting the guy, especially since it's been a bit of an insisider thing. He's been animating since quite early, and it's a long strange trip. Give him money. http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/

Here's the history, in slideshow form: http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/#

If you watch the whole thing up to now as an animation, then go back and review the frame with dialog, it's very clear this is going somewhere.
http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/

I think it's fantastic.

The form of story is unusual, in that one must use additional technology to follow it. Which the reading community developed very quickly. I use xkcd.aubronwood.com/.