4 stress-ridden weeks, several bunches of frustration-torn hair and an almost total meltdown of my psyche later, I am now wiser: doing comics in color SUCKS with a capital ‘Fuck’. Still, one just cannot render the joy-filled frivolity of Super Mario’s latest adventure in plain ol’ B&W.

In other news, I actually have something upbeat that I wish to muse on: $100 laptops. After pondering the implications of this wonderful device, I have concluded that with a global distribution, it is going to turn the world as we know it on its fucking ear. As a side note, I cried a single melancholy tear when I realized some of its specs are actually better than my own machine…

For too long, the domain of the Internet (no pun intended) has been accessible only to those lucky enough to live in the relative wealth of more developed countries. With equal access to the massively educational tool, (our Library of Babel, almost), that we call the internet, the underpriviledged will find a voice. I, for one, cannot wait to hear what they have to say…here’s hoping it’s something more interesting than “LOL – a/s/l wanna cybR?”