Science: Ruining Everything Since 1543: A Collection of Science-Themed Comics

A collection of cartoons from the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. SMBC is my very favorite webcomic. (Or, OK, maybe second, next to xkcd.) It's full of smart, thoughtful, offbeat, and often very, very geeky humor. This compilation, being science-themed, features some of the very smartest and geekiest comics to have appeared on the website, as well as a small section of all-new comics, many of which were originally rejected as a little too geeky for the website, hard as that is to believe. It also includes a bonus section featuring little anecdotes, also in comics form, from various scientists and science-y people. I enjoyed it immensely, and even though I must have already seen most of these pieces before, I still laughed show more out loud a lot. show less

This was fine. I searched for books with "science" in the title and then put a few on hold at the library for my girls, in a (lazy) attempt to get them excited about the subject. This was one of those books. So I kinda read it accidentally. Like it was just around and I'd pick it up and read a few pages. And it was okay! I don't get the high rating this has, to be honest, but it was okay. It's like if xkcd had better drawings but was also slightly less clever. People seem to really like it though, so what do I know?

Most of the book is comics you can find on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, but it’s a good collection. Not much to say on that front; it’s a comic for scientists and nerds (no, absolutely not like Big Bang Theory). The one thing that did strike me, purely as a function of reading so many SMBC in one sitting, is how casually half the characters are women. It’s like we’re half the population or something!

The second section is a smaller chunk of previously unrelated, theoretically nerdier comics. Didn’t seem quite as good, but whatever.

The last section is a set of illustrated stories from scientists — almost like the specials from PHD comics, but a lot more anecdotal. And funnier. Some were cool, some really gross, some show more touching. Definitely the best part of the book. show less

A collection of some of the best SMBC comics. Why pay for a book of comics that are free on the internet? Curation. This sifts the best of the best. And in this case, the comics are all science based.

The book was published through the author's Kickstarter promotion, which was wildly successful. This book includes brand new comics. It also includes origin stories of some internet-popular scientists.

There were a few I didn't get and some that made me laugh out loud :)

'The scientific community has not welcomed my "quantum threesome" concept.'