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Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form (time.com)
requerdanos writes: Randall Munroe, the former NASA roboticist and author of the web comic xkcd, spoke with Time magazine after the release of his latest book, Thing Explainer. Sort of. Time asked questions, and Randall's answers were in the form of seven comics that he drew in response. Obligatory xkcd.
... if he didn't do it this way one could say his responses would have been Comic Sans...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
There was no alt-text to be found!
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I'd like to have an ask Randall topic in Slashdot without comics.
Obviously this guy is extremely funny and we'd all like to know how he fooled Nasa in this Robotics thing.
Back in the early 80s, I was a HUGE fan of this little known alternative rock band from Ireland. It seemed like they were continually churning out amazing albums - Boy, October, War, The Joshua Tree... And, as usually happens with really talented groups, gradually more and more people found out about them. Yet even as their popularity grew, it seemed their music was losing something - I'd hear it and still enjoy it, but instead of "wow that's amazing" it was more "yeah that's more or less enjoyable".
Then, in the late 1980s, Time put U2 on the cover. It seemed like, after that, they changed. I can't blame them - it's likely just about impossible to not let fame go to your head - but they turned into just another group whose new albums had one or two decent songs and ten pieces of forgettable filler.
That's how I've felt about xkcd for some time now. Earlier it was consistently great; but more recently it generally doesn't seem to make me laugh or think. I doubt it's because Randall has become well known... but I do think xkcd has probably run its course.
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