An Humorous Science Fiction Web Comic

What?

Singularity Blues: an Apocalyptic Burlesque is a webcomic. It is a irreverent look (a Burlesque) at the end of human history, and how few people actually notice (or care) that it's occurring.

Who?

If the question is "who is your target audience?", then the answer would be the people who would find the following high concept description appealing: Think Blade Runner, The Muppet Show, and Foucault's Pendulum supercollided together ... without the benefit of either Phillip K. Dick, Jim Henson, or Umberto Eco.

Singularity Blues is in that zip code.

If the question is "who are the dramatis personae", then follow the SB World link to your left. Or, if you're really lazy, use this link

If the question is "who is the author", then you can't spell 'megalomania' without ME!. A link to my email can be found at the bottom of this page

When?

The comic itself starts in 2489 CE, but has roots that go back almost to our present day.

Singularity Blues Started, roughly, in April of 2005, and I try to update at least once a week, on Sunday.

Why?

"Why?" There is no "why"! No more will I teach you today! Yoda, " Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back"

Why not? I have the free time, I have the money, and it keeps me from blowing both on fast women and slow horses.

Plus, let's face it, it's free therapy.

Where?

The action of Singularity Blues takes place in two main locales: the Guliani Cluster, a supercity situated (say that three times fast) in the Manhattan Crater at the mouth of the Hudson River, and the City of Chicago, which now serves as the political and spiritual capitol of the (Re) United States.

See the SB World link to your left for more information

How?

This page is best viewed with a CSS2 Compliant Browser. This includes the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

If I have left out your favorite browser, please forward your complaint to: Mr. Carl Plainfield, Director, Department of Public Defense, Empire Spire, Guliani Cluster, State of New York.

All pages were built with the Emacs text editor, the best text editor in the universe. I could have used Notepad, but I'm a UNIX bigot.

ALL images are constructed using inkscape, an SVG vector editor, and exported into PNG format. I will skip the PNG step when native SVG support is available in most browsers (not just Firefox). All other images are done by hand, scanned in, and heavily retouched with the Gimp. I use a Wacom tablet for my "brush".

You may recall I trash-talked Wacom support under Linux: this has been fixed (to my relief) as of Fedora Core 8. So vector work is done in inkscape, "freehand" work is done either with the inkscape calligraphy tool or with the Gimp.

Page 'assembly' was done with self-made software (shows, doesn't it?) and Perl, Practical Extraction and Report Language.

What's That Graphic On The Right Hand Side?

It's an example of cityscript. If bottlenose dolphins could write, it would look like this.

Warning

Parental Advisory: Explicit Reality, 14+

This webcomic is freethinker friendly, so if you're the type that has people burning in Hell forever for entering church with the wrong foot (or just entering the wrong church, period), well, you're not going to enjoy Singularity Blues. That, and there's the occasional bared breast, or even full frontal nudity!

If you're an evangelical, you are going to positively hate Singularity Blues. If you don't, we'll have to mark you down as a "Probable Backslider" in your Inquiry Folder. Expect a visit from someone serving their Inquiry Ministry.

In addition, the artwork is terrible, and my mastery Ye Olde Spell Checker is somewhat shaky. You Have Been Warned.