Detour!

This post is really nothing but a desperate attempt not to kill my blog. In the event that you hadn't noticed, if you check out the number of posts made each month, they're steadily declining. At the rate I was going, this thing would be over and done with by September... so I'm making a radical token effort to save this thing by posting ... shock horror... in order to at LEAST equal the number of posts I made last month. Since that number was exactly three, it's not exactly a difficult task. Unfortunately this is the bit where it becomes blatantly apparent that I actually have no content to blog about. Fortunately, there's a whole big wide internet out there full of interesting things to look at, so let me point you in the direction of a few my favourite things. And when I say things, I mean webcomics, so anybody who prides themself on not being the kind of person who reads webcomics, stop reading here. (Also, I should probably warn that these aren't necessarily 'family friendly' good and wholesome type sites... but at the same time they'd probably be out of their league at a serial killer convention).
Firstly, there's A Softer World, which can sometimes be quite dark and often a little uncomfortable... but incredibly appealing nevertheless. I guess a lot of it comes under 'things we don't tell other people that we think about'. This and this are are just two that I like.
Second, there's XKCD, which can be REALLY geeky and/or nerdy. I think for me it's appeal lies in the simplicity of the artwork coupled with the wit of the text. This is kind of 'yes, that is so obvious now that they've pointed it out! I can't believe I never saw the world like this before' stuff... or at least some of it is... some of it may be too geeky for me to understand.
Finally, The Perry Bible Fellowship ... which actually has nothing to do with religion. Yet again, another series of extremely witty, offbeat, 'isn't that kind of wrong?' type strips. I particularly love this one.
And I know I said finally... but then I remembered Dresden Codak. This one is a serial which has been going for a while now... and unfortunately probably won't get an update for a while given that it's creator recently shredded his hands in a bike accident. I particularly love the artwork in this one, not to mention wonderful wacky concepts like the Historical Preenactment Society.