1000: "1000 Comics"

[Quicksilver]

http://www.xkcd.com/1000/
Alt text: "Thank you for making me feel less alone."
awwwwwww <3 also like the reference to 1024

I hope there's a poster of this one coming soon!

[rhomboidal]

Happy 1k to xkcd!

[Alsadius]

Damn you, I wanted this get.

[serrath]

There was no comic #404, and Randall started indexing at 1 instead of 0; this is comic #999.

[DpEpsilon]

Wait.... what about comic 404?

Nevertheless, happy comic 10³!

[Kaldra]

http://xkcd.com/1000/large/
Large Version's Up

Also, a binary connect the dots

[Quicksilver]

I'm aiming for a hat trick, so...challenge accepted?

[hthall]

This is one of those rare comics whose punchline was actually anticipated in the discussion of the previous comic. Nevertheless, congratulations on a kilocomic, and here's to the coming kibicomic milestone. May there be many more to come.

Aside: Why have we all been waiting with bated breath for the ten cubed comic, while nobody paid any attention when comic number seven cubed came out, or even mentioned that the title of that comic is also divisible by seven?

[orangustang]

I picked the right day to read xkcd on a tablet. Pinch to zoom is coming in quite handy.

Thanks for the years of entertainment, and here's to many more.

[alun009]

There is a comic 404! It might be the best one of the lot

[GulliNL]

Thank you Randall for at least a thousand laughs (as for some I laughed again when I reread them).

[dluidens]

I was more excited for 1024 than 1000 heh heh...

[koopa00]

I totally need this as a poster.

[Felstaff]

2¹⁰ > 10³ - 1

(BTW, this is reply #10, since the other replies contain 404s. )



Removed your [math] tags, because it slows down browsers too much, so we generally keep it in Maths/Science subforums, where people are more patient

[idearat]

After seeing a wizard, a Segway and a few other things I just knew there would be a Waldo in there.

Found him!

Spoiler:

Third zero, about 7:00, in the middle.

[xeny]

I'm wondering , just how many stick figures are there in that image?

[dbam987]

Anyone validate that there are 1000 stick figures in this comic?
Congrats on hitting 1k!

[glasnt]

Celebratory comic milestone!

[fabag]

thank you for a lot of funny comics

(my fav is still "estimation")


i'm looking forward to the next k comics

[Dr.Buck]

Congratulations, well done, etc, etc....

Was using jsmath really necessary who ever did that? My work (if you can call it that!) computer can't handle it, makes it takes around five minutes to load each forum page.

[Tamir]

Anyone validate that there are 1000 stick figures in this comic?

Thanks a lot, I couldn't not count after you said that.

I counted exactly 1000 - including the two big stick figures. I didn't count the skeleton, though.

[markfiend]

My favourite in the kilocomic is

WOPR: Would you like to play a game?
STICK-DAVID: No.

[Vrishna]

Congrats! Great job! ♡

[leifbk]

The wheelchair guy in the 1 looks like Stephen Hawking.

[Splarka]

Heh, play connect the dots with the binary numbers.

Edit: Spoilerified image, oops.

Spoiler:

[BoomFrog]

Where's Barrel boy?

[Akion]

Thank you for all the great laughs and I have to manly admit, the tears sometimes xkcd brought me.
I might be mistaken, but I miss a flying ferret.

Anyone validate that there are 1000 stick figures in this comic?
Congrats on hitting 1k!

According to my calculations made with ImageJ (yeah, I'm a cheater, but that's what is science and computer software are for afterall, nah? ) there ARE 1000 stick figures around. However, this is a rough estimation, as area data ranges from 1 px^2 to 1492px^2 (stdev=103,9) for 1350 particles, so I might have missed a few real characters (eg. kids, small critter etc.).

Where's Barrel boy?

Imho second zero, just above the "Woooo".

[Linux0s]

Figuring out which comics each of these characters is from is the ultimate XKCD challenge.

[zygentoma]

I was wondering whether every single stick figure is shown.

So far, I did find the guy wearing two hats

[standingwave]

Congratulations, Randall!

This momentous occasion (for those using base ten numbering anyway) prompted me to finally register just so I could say thanks for all the geeky laughs over the years and also to say that I'm looking forward to xkcd 2K, not to mention 1024 and 2048!

Even though I know that all the strips are on-line I still tend to save my favorites to a folder. Just the favorites mind you, not each and every one. I don't know why, I guess I'm paranoid that one day I'll wake up and the Internet will be gone or something. Anyway, being the anal retentive nerd that I am, I need to have everything lined up just so in terms of file names and this crossing into four digit territory necessitated perpending each file with the numeral 0. And boy are my fingers tired. (Not really, I know how to use a computer.) Anyway, I was surprised to find that I had saved 639 of the first 1000 so I thought you'd like to know that you're batting 0.639 in my book!

Keep up the good work.

[J L]

I was wondering for some time what #1000 would be, and I wasn't disappointed Thanks Randall.

Thanks also to the guys already answering the 1000-stick-figures-question. But now I'm asking myself, are all of the thousand comics represented by exactly one figure ...?

[Felstaff]

Math tag removed

(BTW, this is reply #10, since the other replies contain 404s. )

what is your colour coding? I cannot work it out.
green ones are ones from specific comics right? but what are the blue ones?

[Diadem]

Thanks also to the guys already answering the 1000-stick-figures-question. But now I'm asking myself, are all of the thousand comics represented by exactly one figure ...?

No. First of all not all comics even have a figure to begin with. Secondly there's some stick figures in there that do not seem to be from any of the comics. Finally there's at least a few from the same comic. The couple with the baby for example in the bottom-left of the third zero.

[Splarka]

Okay, I count exactly 999 human beings, and one skeleton. Although one might be a genie.

Also 1 each of: Sheep, Turtle, Squirrel, Squid(Cuttlefish?), Butterfly, Kitty. Which I started counting as characters, but ended up with 6 extra humanoids. But didn't feel like starting over.

Also some ants and computers and crap that didn't seem countable.

Anyone wanna check my zoning? It can't be worse than Texas congressional districts can it?

This might be generating "I found something!" posts for weeks. Someone should set up a multiuser tag-able imagemap or something.

Also, when I try to say "Altavista_Ron_Paul" without underscores it becomes: "Altavista the Ronpaul"

[Senefen]

"Thank you for making me feel less alone."

The pleasure was ours.

[dante_2core]

Thank you so much Randall for all your work, I still look forward to every comic
Cheers & keep up the good work!

[Peterdes]

Got two questions:
1. Will there be a (big) poster with this one? I'd love one!
2. Even in the large image I can't read some of the captions, will there be an even-larger-resolution image?

Besides, congrats! Great work!

[gormster]

There was no comic #404, and Randall started indexing at 1 instead of 0; this is comic #999.

Yes there was. You just didn't get it.

[rba]

"Thank you for making me feel less alone."

Christ... a bit emo don't you think? Do thousands of random Internet viewers really address the author's loneliness? Surely not.

[VectorZero]

Congratulations on this occasion of your arbitrarily significant milestone!