Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Anemic April Fool's from the Webcomics World


On April 1st, no RSS feed is safe. Reddit looks like Digg threw up on it. Drew Curtis pulls a Zuckerberg with "The New Fark Experience" (to be rolled out April 2nd, naturally). Think Geek is selling unicorn chasers, USB pet rocks, and interactive Portal shirts (although now I really want a Tauntaun sleeping bag). Google's AI CADIE has become self-aware, discovered pandas, and now wants to answer your Gmail for you. Expedia's offering deals on flights to Mars. Today's Zero Punctuation was sponsored by Pony Jam. And there will be no shortage of fake articles, upside down logos, and Rickrolls.

Strangely, after last year's grand xkcd-Questionable Content-Dinosaur Comics URL switcheroo, very few webcomickers have taken part in today's slightly annoying festivities:

I'll update as any others come in. But it seems that the biggest joke this April Fool's Day was that there were hardly any pranks at all.

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