Vacation Strips Start Tomorrow

I'll be away for at least a week, and Vacation strips have been uploaded to the Comic Genesis (x, why?) site. What are they? A Blast from the Past. My Past. Waaaaaaaay Past.


But they won't appear here on this site, so please click on the banner link below. Then come back here to leave your comments.

See you soon.

And, pleeeeeeeeease click on the Top Web Comics vote buttons on the left side of this page. I'd like to crack the Top 500 one of these days. Thanks.

Nutritional Information

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

The City Council of New York City recently passed regulations requiring that nutritional information, namely the calorie count, be clearly posted in every restaurant.
It really takes some of the fun out of ordering a Coney Island foot-long at a Cyclones game.


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The Null Set

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

It could be a picture of a cow eating grass.

Actually, it's a print of that famous painting
Death of a Mauve Bat
by C. Romero


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Ordinary

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.


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Dullness

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Don't pass judgment. Until you've walked a mile in his shoes,
you don't know Jack!


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Review

The following was a review of (x, why?) that appeared in on a blog that no longer exists. It was found in the cache when Googling.

Friday, February 22, 2008 (x, why?) (x, why?) by Chris Burke (x, why?) is an MS Paint comic about math, as drawn by high school math teacher Chris Burke. The fact that it's clearly intended for his students makes me want to excuse how dull, corny and poorly drawn it is. Teachers make these sort of things all the time- but they generally don't put them on ComicGenesis. It seems like a poor decision on his part since he already had the comic on a blog, which is a more reliable host than CG- though having a CG account makes a comic more likely to get hits, those people aren't really his target audience. Maybe this decision was inspired by the success of xkcd. The jokes are mildly funny if you're into math. This one in particular got a little smile out of me. The author recognizes that his comic isn't very good and just draws it to amuse himself and his students. It just seems so innocent I can't snark on it. Few webcomics are. So comic on, Mr. Burke.

A Stitch In Time . . .

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

I hope this one speaks for itself.


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That's Why We Build Them Up

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

The main question is if it's a direct relation or an exponential function.


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A Classic Lady

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Compliments can be a funny, funny thing.
Write your favorite backhanded compliment, or your favorite "compliment that isn't a compliment if you know the whole story" in the Comments section.



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The Summer Difference

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

According to John Kovalic of Dork Tower,
Penultimate Panel Silences are still legit enough to use.

But I'm in trouble if I start using stick figures again. Ok, Seriously...


EDIT: Dead LINK updated (7/14/14)
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Stargate SG-1/Land of the Lost Trivia

I'm watching Stargate for the first time, having caught an episode here or there in the past. One character that jumped out at me immediately was "Chaka", as mentioned in the footer text in yesterday's cartoon.

On Stargate, Chaka was an Unas.

I, of course, was more familiar with Chaka from Land of the Lost, who was a Pakuni, which sounds similar enough as far as race names go.

I waited for Ta and Sa to pop through the Stargate, but they never did.

(x, why?) and Land of the Lost Trivia

Something interesting turned up while I was preparing yesterday's comic. When I went to double-check the spelling of Enik's name, I started reading more about the show and the actors.

Rick Marshall was played by Spencer Milligan. He left the series after the second season. He then went on to do a TV movie called The Keegans. I seriously had no knowledge of that before I had Mike Keegan musing about his Land of the Lost and Doctor Who crossover.

To take this one step farther, Milligan was replaced by Ron Harper who had been in the TV series, "The Planet of the Apes". I double-checked that in the Internet Movie Database because I couldn't remember if he played Burke or Virdon. He was Virdon. Had he been Burke, that might've been too many co-incidences even for me. And I love this stuff.