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#Colour #Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.18th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy
Panel 1 AJ: Hey little dude. Know what an oxymoron is? Panel 2 Dust Puppy: Isn't that what Stef calls all the technicians? AJ: Ah, no, that's not entirely accurate. Panel 3 AJ: Do you want to play a game? All you have to do is come up with most telling oxymoron possible. The most ironic oxymoron wins. Panel 4 Dust Puppy: Okay. AJ: I'll start. "Military Intelligence." Panel 5 no dialogue Panel 6 Dust Puppy: "Microsoft Works." AJ: Uh, okay, you win.
January 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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The more things change….
January 17, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.17th1998

#DustPuppy #SmilingMan
Panel 1 Dust Puppy: Hello Smiling Man. I heard you wanted to see me. Smiling Man: Yes. I'd like to know what it is you do around here. Panel 2 Dust Puppy: Oh. Well, I walk around looking short, and sleep in the servers, and give advice to people who need it and sometimes I even play Quake. Panel 3 Dust Puppy: That's about it. Panel 4 Smiling Man: And for how long have you been a vice president?
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.16th1998

#DustPuppy #Mike #Stef
Panel 1 Stef: Hey Mike, you seen that walking ball of dirt anywhere? Mike: Nope. Why're you looking for him? Panel 2 Stef: That little begger went and put a laxative in my coffee. Mike: Bummer. Haven't seen him though. Panel 3 Stef: Well, if you spot him, let me know. Mike: Sure. Panel 4 Mike: A laxative in his coffee? I'm proud of you. You can hide as long as you like. Dust Puppy: Thanks, but your beard tickles.
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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Good!
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.15th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy
Panel 1 AJ: Hey little guy. What ya up to? Dust Puppy: Surfing the web. I'm looknig for some info. Panel 2 AJ: Yeah? Why're you doing that? Dust Puppy: Stef aired me out so now I have to retaliate. Panel 3 AJ: Retaliate? Dust Puppy: Ah, here's what I've been looking for... Panel 4 AJ: "Dissollving industrial strength laxatives in coffee." Dust Puppy: Pitr has such great ideas.
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.14th1998

#Cobb #SmilingMan
Panel 1 Smiling Man: Ahhh, Cobbb. Thank you for coming. You know how I hate to take you away from your busy schedule. Panel 2 Cobb: Oh, my pleasure. Smiling Man: Yes. Well. I've been reviewing your expense reports and I wonder if you could explain a few discrepancies. Panel 3 Cobb: uhhh... Smiling Man: I noticed you've been expensing a lot of dinners with one of the telephone company vice-presidents. Panel 4 Smiling Man: So I checked. Strangely, the phone company has never had an employee named Betty Bazongas. Cobb: Really? you mean she lied to me all this time?
January 14, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.13th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy #Pitr
Panel 1 AJ: I can't believe you're back! We were all pretty sad when you got aired out, but now you're back everything is okay again. Panel 2 Dust Puppy: Aired out? AJ: Yes, you took a blast of compressed air. Messed you up something awful. Panel 3 No dialogue Panel 4 Dust Puppy: Isn't that akin to murder or something? Pitr: Stef did it.
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.12th1998

#DustPuppy #Greg
Panel 1 No dialogue Panel 2 Greg: Hey, little dude. Dust Puppy: Hi Greg. Panel 3 No dialogue Panel 4 Greg: I don't believe it!! Dust Puppy: Tell me about it. Microsoft is still claiming innocence in court. Who do they think they are kidding?
January 12, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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#Colour #Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.11th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy #Pitr #Stef
Panel 1 Stef: I don't see what the big deal is. That hairball was nothing but trouble. Pitr: How so? Panel 2 Stef: For starters he kept climbing into the fridge and getting weird bits of hair on all of the food. I hate that. Panel 3 Stef: On top of that he freaked me out. Ball of fuzz on feet, sneaking around. Creapy little creature. Panel 4 Stef: And he had this habit of sneaking up on me. Nearly gave me a massive coronary last time. AJ: Um... Panel 5 Dust Puppy: Hi guys. Panel 6 AJ: One! Two! Three! One! Two! Three! Pitr, give me a hand! Pitr: Nope I draw the line at putting my lips on Stef's.
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.10th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy #Pitr
Panel 1 AJ: Well, I guess that's it, Pitr. We've tried everything to bring the little guy back. Nothing worked. Panel 2 Pitr: Should we open the server and collect his remains? AJ: No, I couldn't bear it. Let's just go. Panel 3 Sounds (from server): rustle rustle rustle Panel 4 Dust Puppy: Hello? Sound: POOK!
January 10, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.9th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy #Greg #Pitr
Panel 1 AJ: The dust puppy came to life somehow. All those bits came together in a server, and life sprang forth. Panel 2 AJ: I hope we got all the correct bits into the server. Now we just hope it works. Throw the switch, Greg! Greg (off panel): OK!! Panel 3 Server: Click! Whhhhiiiirrrrr... Panel 4 Greg (off panel): Did it work?? AJ: Pitr, do you smell burning hair? Server: *sizzle*
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.8th1998

#AJ #DustPuppy #Pitr
Panel 1 Pitr: I'm telling you AJ. He's gone. Kaput. Finis. AJ: But he can't be! Panel 2 Pitr: All that's left of him is that pile of fluff. two eyes and two feet. AJ: Maybe we can bring him back to life...? Panel 3 Pitr: Those feet are bad. He'll need new ones. AJ: No problem. Panel 4 Pitr: I'll get the hacksaw. AJ: Hey Stef, can you come in here for a minute?
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.7th1998

#DustPuppy #Mike #Pitr
Panel 1 Mike: You're kidding. Pitr: I wish I were. One PAFF! from the compressed air and it was over. Panel 2 Mike: That can't be. Pitr: I'm not making this up. Panel 3 Mike: Let me see. Pitr: If you insist. Panel 4 Pitr: See, a disembodied foot. Told ya. Mike: It might not be the dust puppy. I mean, Stef looks like this in Quake most of the time.
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.6th1998

#DustPuppy #Pitr
Panel 1 Dust Puppy: It's been a long day. I think I'll take a nap in this nice warm server. Panel 2 Pitr: This server sure is dusty. I better give it a good blast of compressed air. Panel 3 Can of compressed air: PAFFFF! Panel 4 Pitr: Uh oh.
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.5th1998

#DustPuppy #Newscaster
Panel 1 Newscaster: Department of Justice spokesperson Terrance Faber revealed today that the case against Microsoft has stalled. Panel 2 Newscaster: Faber stated that the Department has every intention of proceeding with the case once their workstations, wich contain all of the evidence collected against Microsoft, are back up Panel 3 Newscaster: When Justice officers keyed in the words "Injunction against Microsoft" in Word 7.0, all of the workstations immediatly locked up. Faber refused to comment on this suspicious incident. Panel 4 Newscaster: When reached for comment, Mr. Gates smiled apologettically and said that a fix for this particular bug was being worked on, and would be available for free to the Department of Justice by the year 3614.
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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#Colour #Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.4th1998

#Customer #Greg
Panel 1 Greg: Columbia Internet Tech Support. Greg Speaking. How may I help you? Customer: Hi. My browser isn't connecting with Web sites. Panel 2 Greg: I see. OK, I'll tell you how to configure your... Customer: What's your Primary DNS? Panel 3 Greg: Uhh....it's 209.170.19.6 Customer: Hmmm, I got that correct. Panel 4 Greg: Are all IPs dynamically allocated? Customer: Yes, they are indeed. Panel 5 Customer: Oh, silly me. I set the IP allocation to 'static' I am SO sorry for wasting your time. Panel 6 Greg: You're wonderful. Are you married? Customer: My wife hates it when I call tech support.
January 4, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.3rd1998

#AJ #DustPuppy
Panel 1 AJ: Did you hear the news? Microsoft just acquired Hotmail. Panel 2 AJ: Now Microsoft is offering a free Web browser, free server software, and free e-mail. I''m scared of what's coming next. Panel 3 No dialogue Panel 4 Dust Puppy: "This is where you will go today." AJ: I'm moving to the moon.
January 3, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.2nd1998

#Hillary #Mike #Pfeiffer #Pitr #Tanya
Panel 1 Hillary: WOOHOO! Hey, Pfeiffer! Check this out! Pfeiffer: Coming, Hillary Panel 2 Hillary: You ever seen anything like it, Tanya? Tanya: Never. Awesome. Panel 3 Hillary: Look at this, Pfeiffer. Talk about deluxe! Panel 4 Hillary: Look coloured paper clips!! Pitr: New office supplies. Mike: Ah.
January 2, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Jan.1st1998

#AJ #DustPuppy

Notes:
Happy New Year 1998/2026
Panel 1 AJ: Well, it's 1998. It's another year closer to teh end of the milenium. Panel 2 AJ: We had the eighties and the nineties. What do we call the next decade? The zeros? The nothings? Panel 3 No dialogue Panel 4 Dust Puppy: How about "the naughties?" AJ: It's probably pretty accurate.
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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#2026
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Dec.31st1997

#AJ #DustPuppy
Panel 1 AJ: 1997 was quite a year. Now that we're on the verge of 1998, I keep thinking about all of the earth-shaking events that happened. Panel 2 AJ: Microsoft acquired Apple. Bre-X made people extremely rich or extremely poor. Quake II and Riven were released. K56 Flex became an accepted standard. Panel 3 Dust Puppy: Ummm.... Panel 4 Dust Puppy: You forgot that Stef got a non-negative score in a deathmatch. AJ: I said earth-shaking events, not miracles.
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Dec.30th1997

#AJ #Greg #Mike
Panel 1 AJ: Hey Greg, you seen that Snurf Gun that mike got for Christmas? Greg: Nope. Panel 2 AJ: It's pretty neat. It's loaded with all kinds of targetting gizmos. Greg: Hey cool! Panel 3 AJ: problem is, it goes through ammo like crazy. Mike's down at the store hoping to find a solution. Greg: Ahhh. Panel 4 Customer Service: Sir, for the hundredth time, we do NOT carry 600-round boxes of belt-fed suction darts! Mike: What about tripods? You got tripods?
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I don’t crochet and I don’t have one of these, but in times like these I believe everyone could use a tuna sandwich eating sidekick.
December 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#Comic #UserFriendly #By:Illiad #Dec.29th1997

#AJ #Chief #Mike #Pitr #Stef
Panel 1 AJ: So whatcha get for Christmas, Mike? Mike: I got this Snurf Gun. It fires those soft suction darts. Panel 2 Pitr: Hey! A Snurf Gun! Cool! Mike: Ya, it's got a scope, a laser painter, windage compensator... Panel 3 Pitr: Does it have autofire? Mike: I think so. We'll have to test it. Panel 4 Stef: Chief, I think it behooves upper management to write company policy on firearms in the workplace... Chief: Yeah. Snurf Guns for everyone!
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM