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Bam. Well it's comics really.

Seems offline, maybe server maintenance.. But google had it cached.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.thebench. org/+thebench&hl=en

And if you really have too much time, check out The Bench, a comic by the readers. Reading the backlog will take you a few years, though.

Now, to the people who have Paypal accounts, start giving something back. A dollar won't hurt you, but it'll help them.

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Thanks for the idea for my first the bench :)

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There are already several /. comix up. Here's one.

I've noticed that people don't consider punks as computer people. Look at the Bench.org, there are two punk related strips (one of them is mine). Are there any ideas as to why? I mean I've used Linux for two years (my first kernel compile was when I was 13), and set up my own network (complete with network server and proxy). That and I wanted to pimp my strip.

At the risk of hubris, here was my strip: Strip #430

let me know what you think

please don't be too harsh, I'm a geek, not a comedian. :)

I love the idea of "open source cartoons" I think it could catch on.

I was initially drawn into TheBench.org due to its non-complex, yet funny struggle between Gabe and the squirrel, who practically did nothing, but still irrates Gabe. Then to find, with BenchCraft (the origin of The Bench being a community cartoon) I could accually make my own strips. By using images from other strips, and a little by myself (I am a bad drawer, which limits me) I could create a comic of my own.

The site is lacking in a way to respond to the comics. There should be some way to rate them and respond to them, sorta like how a precursor attempted to do with a collection of TheBench scripts, http://thebench.laer.nu/, which filled the lack of TheBench.org until it finally appeared. That site had no responce, but did organize comics by author, date, and views. Author and views are very helpful, because generally you will like what most people like (not always, but better than random sifting) and when you find someone's strip you like, generally they will have a few others in a similar manner which will also be enjoyable, if they have anymore. I have only one so far, I like to think them over first to ensure highest quality to my own standards of course. It might benefit some comic posters to do the same. Just because you can make a strip, does not mean you should.

Its nice to see TheBench.org and Penny-Arcade.com get recognition with a slashdot article. Hope it did not obliterate them. We always hurt the ones we love, eh, slash? I submitted this as a story a few days ago, I guess it was passed over until more were sent of it, or this one came first.

Also, you can check out my strip (dont scream at me for linking to it! I am only human!) at http://www.thebench.org/index.php3?stri p=78. It shows my view on the inner struggle of Gabe with the squirrel. At least I think it is funny.

That brings up another thing. Humor is in the eye of the beholder, kinda like beauty, expect, sometimes it does not apply for beauty. Whoever made a comic, which you don't think is funny, probably thought it was funny to them. Its like how I might find a terrorist blowing things up in movies hilarious, just becuase of how dumb it is, while others find it serious. As with time and space, it is all relative.

There's my two cents,
Hope it makes sense!
Stop Rhyming, I mean it!
Anybody wanna peanut?!

(Sorry, that was random, but I just felt like it.)

It's about /.

LOLROTL!!!!!

check this one

jag.

Since I'm already typing this, I may as well say that I rather like this site. Some of the strips are rather stupid, granted, but so are some of the posts here on /. Even my strip may be in that category, but I don't care. That's just what you get when you have a community contributing.

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Since I'm already typing this, I may as well say that I rather like this site. Some of the strips are rather stupid, granted, but so are some of the posts here on /. Even my strip may be in that category, but I don't care. That's just what you get when you have a community contributing.

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Actually....it's right here.

Well, those who follow jerkcity will recognize this one.