See details - xkcd: volume 0. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Sold by ergodebooks About this product Product Information Randall Munroe describes xkcd as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
While it's practically required reading in the geek community, xkcd fans are as varied as the comic's subject matter. This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another. The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first comics. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original scans of the comics the mouseover text is discreetly included , and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.
The book is published by Breadpig, which donates all of the publisher profits from this book to Room to Read for promoting literacy in the developing world. Additional Product Features Copyright Date. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition. If you are at all a fan of science, math, and humor you should at least check out the web comic….
Nov 12, terpkristin rated it really liked it Shelves: humor , He gave it all up to draw stick-figure webstrips three times a week. It was probably the best decision he could have made for himself and for geekdom. Seriously, if you haven't read xkcd and are reading this review, there's something wrong with you. I got it as a part of the eb Randall Munroe got his degree in physics and went to work with the fine folks at NASA for a bit. I got it as a part of the ebook Humble Bundle and enjoyed it immensely, even though I've read most of the strips before.
Smart, geeky, and fun. Feb 22, Raj rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphic-novel. It's XKCD , but in paper form. All the geekiness, none of the monitor eyestrain. Since the originals of some of the early strips are lost, so this isn't a straight chronological listing of strips, but a collection of Munroe's favourites.
The tooltip texts are all present, usually inserted below the strip, or in between panels, and there is new stuff as well, with some being commentary on strips, some random doodles and some random-looking codes that are probably very funny if I could be bothered It's XKCD , but in paper form.
The tooltip texts are all present, usually inserted below the strip, or in between panels, and there is new stuff as well, with some being commentary on strips, some random doodles and some random-looking codes that are probably very funny if I could be bothered decoding them.
Which I can't. The comics are as funny as ever but there are a few problems. Although the hover text there may be a more technical name for it is included, it's in unnecessarily tiny font and has inconsistent placement. Most of the time it's directly under the strip but sometimes it's between panels and more than once I really had to search for it because the font is so small it was easy to overlook. I was also hoping for commentary with the comics. There is the occasional bit of commentary but it's very rare.
My favorite comic? The one about Penny Arcade. Nov 16, Nicky rated it liked it Shelves: humour , artwork. Obviously, if you buy this book, you're paying for something that you can find easily online and for free -- and it's only a selection, and there's no guarantee that your favourite strips are in here Still, it's a fun retrospective of xkcd and I found a couple I'd never come across before.
Dec 27, James rated it it was amazing Shelves: computers , humor , culture-and-politics , general-science-math-technology. I love this! I wish my fellow nerds in high school and I had had the chance to read this then. This is full of the kinds of humor I remember from physics class and the chess club. The page numbering is in base 3, even. I'll probably never figure out a lot of the little notations at the bottom of the pages, but that's all right. If you're a snarky, cynical nerd, this is for you.
Dec 29, Steve Coughlan rated it it was amazing Shelves: humor. I learned that I'm not as smart as I think Now I've got to do some research and learn why the ones I miss are funny. But the vast majority I do get, and are very funny. I think my favorite is the one about gaming with death. Jul 30, M rated it really liked it.
Who would have thought that stick figures commenting on life and mathematics would be this much fun? Granted some of the equations can be confusing, but overall a nicely simple look at existential thoughts on existence.
Nov 12, May-Ling rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels. Nov 14, Pedro Plassen Lopes rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics. Jokes for the intellectuals. Some are inside jokes, but some are deeply awesome as the universe simulator made of sand and rocks sketch. Dec 30, Melek rated it did not like it. I laughed twice and smiled once. That's it. I'm sorry, I like you Mr. Munroe and I'll keep following xkcd, but you could've chosen way better stuff for this book.
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He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Books by Randall Munroe. Articles featuring this book. Read more Trivia About xkcd: volume 0. Quotes from xkcd: volume 0. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing.
Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
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This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another.
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