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The writer of the comic in the article, Ryan North, also wrote The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl which is full of nerdy computer science puns. And many science-based solutions to problems our heroes encounter.

I highly recommend this series. You can read it on Marvel Unlimited, which has a free trial. I suggest reading on a tablet.




He's also the author of the incredibly long-running webcomic Dinosaur Comics.

https://www.qwantz.com/



I remember following this twitter thread (North is a very worthwhile follow) as it happened and it was a real delight.


Holy smokes! I never read the comic that much, but I did read a book of short stories based around an idea from one of his comics: The Machine of Death. Highly recommended, it's rather good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_of_Death


He studied Computational Linguistics, so the cipher figures.




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