Buttercup Festival
Good news, everyone1! After three years, David Troupes has restarted the comic Buttercup Festival.
If you aren’t familiar with the strip, you may enjoy poking around the old archives at random. There are some delightful things there.
1 Protip: it’s helpful to imagine that every blog post everywhere is preceded by the Professor announcing this.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Now if only hackles came back to life, _that_ would be some good news!
January 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
oh Futurama, how I love thee
January 29th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Oh sweet monkeys yes. Perhaps this will be a good day after all.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Hmmm, does he have a feed? That would be nice… I am not seeing one…
January 29th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Same here, I don’t see a feed. Hope there’s one somewhere
January 29th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Yeah, I’m looking for a feed. I suppose if he’s back from three years, he might not have updated the underlying code of the site, so maybe give it some time, but the Internet has limited attention spans.
A feed would be nice.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Neat! I really missed that comic. It was the only decent strip in the Daily Collegian for a long time. I remember a being really pleased to discover that all of the strips were online. Gives me nostalgia for my first couple years of college, when I was first getting into webcomics.
(God, I feel young sometimes. I have nostalgia for 2001.)
Agree with previous comments that he needs a feed if he’s only updating twice a month. I love Buttercup Festival, but I’m NOT going to remember to check it every other Monday.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
At the bottom of his page he has a link, but he misspelt xkcd.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I can’t poke around the archive at random! The best I can do is to poke around arbitrarily.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Did you suddenly discover /b/, xkcd? Between this blag post and your comic today…
January 30th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Bad news, nobody… the supercollider super-exploded.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Too sad, no RSS ?
January 30th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Too sad, no RSS…
January 30th, 2008 at 5:36 am
“Did you suddenly discover /b/, xkcd? Between this blag post and your comic today…”
Yes! I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed this.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:57 am
There -is- an RSS feed, Olivier G!
Atomic Monsters!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Nifty! I am always [1] looking for a new web comic experience. I’ll take a thorough look on your [2] advice.
[1] Well, not always. I do have to sleep,
[2] Mad props for putting footnotes in your blog posts, BTW. A properly [3] footnoted blog post is a thing of beauty.
[3] I stick to the Random House style guide, though my brother [4] prefers the Chicago Manual of Style. I consider Strunk & White to be so antiquated that it’s practically useless. Others [4] disagree.
[4] Who shall remain nameless.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I have to say, today’s comic is nothing short of beautiful to me.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I just found your comic, I read all of them in one sitting.
Time to eat.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I’ve been following Buttercup Festival since ‘04, and I too am ecstatic. This comic was soo good, and the second run is so far showing signs of being even better!
Glad to know others appreciate BCF as much as I do…
-AD
January 30th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Will we ever see Hatguy with his hat?
I loved today’s comic.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Yes, I just discovered /b/ last week. Am I doing it right guys?
January 30th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Just saw today’s comic too. When I reached the end I had a real “wow” moment. Am I the only one?
January 30th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I HAD to say I loved the comic. It delighted me to no end. Serious ownage. Part 1 I loved, but this one was….simply amazing. You never cease to have all these twists and endings and just so much…..pwnage, for lack of a better term. Love it. Thank you for bringing delight to my Wednesdays.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:24 am
This is even better on LiveJournal or Myspace blogs.
“Good news everyone! i cut myself to let the hurt out.”
January 31st, 2008 at 4:12 am
Fantastic latest comic indeed.
It’s been a long time coming, hat man.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:37 am
Best to leave /b/ to /b/, this is a (un)holy ground free of dicknipples.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
“Yes, I just discovered /b/ last week. Am I doing it right guys?”
You discovered it two yeard later. /b/ is made of fails and AIDS right now. Go find your own internets because /b/ no longer delivers.
also here’s a small treat for you ralph
http://raptorsafari.com/play.php
January 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I think XKCD is a pretty cool guy. Eh propagates meems and doesn’t afraid of rules 1 and 2.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I’s gonna get eaten by raptors, ain’t I?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:22 am
I’m not sure if you were aware of this yet, but I think that you and everyone should at least be aware of it. In expectance of the impending doom to befall our lovely Earth, this was created to help prepare for it:
http://raptorsafari.com/play.php
I hope you find this as helpful as I have and happy hunting.
-Chef Bryan
February 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
I guess I don’t read very well. Kudos to lolwut for getting it in first
February 1st, 2008 at 12:52 am
Hey. I found a fun game I think you’d enjoy.
http://raptorsafari.com/play.php
February 1st, 2008 at 1:36 am
Off-topic, but can you do a “real programmers use butterflies” t-shirt?
February 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I think Linus said dd was all you really need. Who needs a disk if you have butterflies?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
No no, you all got it wrong. Real programmers use caterpillars!
February 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
more red spiders, please. where did they all go?
“Good news! It’s a suppository!”
February 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
in b4 belair
February 5th, 2008 at 3:05 am
My roommate and I both thought that hat-guy’s recent pwnage was pretty much the very best comic we’ve ever read.
And then we marveled for several long moments about how a comic drawn entirely with stick figures nonetheless creates varied, recognizable character personalities.
Don’t think I’ve posted before, so thanks for letting us in on your brilliance. :)
February 8th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Wait…you mean every blog post everywhere ISN’T proceeded by the Professor announcing good news? O_O
This new development saddens me…
But Buttercup Festival’s return cheers me up. So I guess I’m neutral right now.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This is awesome! I love BF, although only recently got into them. It’s good to hear there’ll be more.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
You should check out Too Much Coffee Man at http://www.tmcm.com
It’s included in my list of webcomics I check everytime a new one is due (xkcd always comes first, though!).