Several months ago I asked for font advice, but nothing much came of that. Today, via Daring Fireball, I discovered Comics Grammar & Tradition, by Nate Piekos. Wow, what a great article! Based on that information, I just purchased Silver Age from Blambot.

Next up, improving my word balloon skills.

As always, you can get the original SVG artwork, free of charge.

For background on this comic, read Chris Oliver’s “Performance matters – 25x for JavaFX script over Groovy and JRuby blog” entry.

Given that FX competes with Flash and Silverlight, comparing it with JRuby and Groovy seems pointless. Danno Ferrin suggested a comic to me, and I ran with it. (Don’t get pissed at Danno if you are offended by bad words and depictions of programming language oral sex…his idea was cleaner than mine!)

And you thought 2008 was bad.

Programmers have tracked down the bug to this snippet of code:

while (days > 365)
    {
        if (IsLeapYear(year))
        {
            if (days > 366)
            {
                days -= 366;
                year += 1;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            days -= 365;
            year += 1;
        }
    }

   _____________________
  /                     \
  | I love my new Mac!* |
  \______________  _____/
                 \/
                ______
               /      \      ___________________
               | *  * |  ___/                   \
               |  __  |     | It's so great for |
               \______/     | graphics!**       |
                            \___________________/

      * Except Xara isn't available for Mac.

            ** Until X11 starts crashing, making both
               Gimp and Inkscape completely unusable,
               forcing you to revert to ASCII for
               your stupid comics.

This was inspired by Dion Almaer’s tweet.