Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for September 27, 2014
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Transcript:
We'll put the missile bases at these lagrange points. But points 1,2, and 3 are unstable. All the more reason for the United Nations to fear us. Whoa! The engineers are holding a peace rally.
Back when comics were printed on paper the cost of distribution made it almost impossible to find material directed at niche markets (like science and math humor). You might find an occasional reference in Foxtrot or Frank and Ernest but mostly you had to hunt for trade journals and college papers. Today, with tens of thousands of comics on the web and minimal distribution costs there are quite a few comics that focus on science and/or math. Some of the humor gets pretty esoteric… I don’t get much of Brown Sharpie’s math humor, for example and XKCD so often confuses people that there’s a website devoted to explaining the latest comic.