Somewhere around here I have an old paper comic book that was an ad for the TRS-80.

More retro than innovative.

what about all of _why the lucky stiff's stuff?

It is pretty nice; it explains things graphically, but you can read it at your own speed.

Still, I think that Michael is both exaggerating the comic books effectiveness and underestimating the technical merits.

You mean like how they used a comic book / cartoon to explain difficult concepts in, oh, "Jurassic Park" or just about any elementary school in the USA?

"This might actually be one of Google Chrome’s biggest innovations."

I love Google, but this is a bit over the top.

I didn't mean it in general, just as in a way to launch software. I bet journalists from the mainstream media even have more accurate tech details in their stories because of it.

Congrats to Scott McCloud! Being an independent (non-superhero) comic creator, even a celebrated author and theorist like him, doesn't pay all that well. I bet he's going to get more work...eventually work from overfunded startups!

If only the comic wasn't so horribly overmarketed. Seriously, I haven't tried Chrome yet since I don't have a windows box, so I'm holding off judgement, but all the overenthusiastic, arrogant, and annoying marketing crap in the comic has already left a bad taste in my mouth.

The technical details were interesting, but I had to wade through a wrapping of marketing crap to get to the gems about why Chrome is so much better than the competition. Really, all the comic needs to complete it are claims that Chrome cures cancer and makes the sky rain kittens and cotton candy with the sun still shining.