M and Linux

M is a semi-autobiographical strip made by Mads Eriksen.

Mads and me
Mads and me!

In December 2007, Mads apparently had a computer malfunction, and this is the artistic result thereof. All translations by me, numbers reference the panels:

Windows BSOD

1: Maybe something is loose in there?
2: As cheap as these has become, I guess the ironware is just connected with old gum...


1: No, there is nothing else to do, if I shall ever play freecell again...
2:
3: Ooh!

1: Hurrah, Linuxman is here! All will be good!
2: Can't you hang something in the window?
Can't you just use the door?
3: Bah, defile myself with such a common entry?
Yes indeed, that would be below you
4: Besides, the suit becomes so clingy when I climb the stairs
La la la la, hang something in the window okayokay

1: So what's the problem this time? Crumbs in the keyboard? Cables tangled?
2: Crust on the disk? Splinter in the mouse finger? Bark beetles in the file tree? Gnomes in the processor?
3:
4: I tried to install Linux, but the penguins freaked out and chased me with the drill.

1: Luckily, I foresaw your feeble attempt to fix your PC by yourself, so I brought a ...
2:
3: A digital machete to clear the way through the Windows director jungle and overgrown root trees!
4: First fire, then the wheel, and now this: A programmer's wet dream, coated in polycarbonate.
5: Diagnose! Install! Back up! (this is funny in Norwegian only, I guess!)

1: When did you last clean this machine? It's full of dust and knick-nacks. ...and loose change!
2: Mrglp, (choked:) desktop background?!
3: You must care for your registry! You must weed, wash, trim! It's an ornamental shrub!
4: Poor baby, you haven't even been defragmented... What has the mean man done to you?!

1: What's happening well you have fixed my laptop allready?!
2:
3: Ha ha ha, you sort of thought we should unveil it, hu? Where are you taking me..?
4: Okay, you remember the story about Humpty Dumpty that Mum used to tell when we were kids..?
Yeah, luckily he fell off a shelf in a glue shop.
Well...
Became as good as new!

1: I, I have failed. Again and again I have called your PC back from the shadows...
2: ...but this time I was helpless! Have I lost my skills? Who do you call from now on, when shit happens?!
3: Well luckily, the warranty has not expired, so I guess I can just hand it in t-
... some schmuck with a microsoft certificate?
4: I am just human Waaaaaaa
Okey, you need a rest

1: (cropped speech bubble) opened it to () released a buch of demons, so () Linuxman, and then-
Okey, we better take it in
2: Super!.. I'll just browse the shelves then.
Umm it'll take a couple of weeks.

1: This strip is made on the mobile phone because the computer is in for repair. We apologize.

2: The wrapping says chicken filet.

4: argh, I want my PC back

Making nonsense words (backwards/upside down)

1: It's feels a bit good too, being without a computer. Not having to glare into the screen every day.
2: Try to see the bright sides. Think positive. Now I have the time to do things I haven't done since HTML 2.0 or thereabout.
3: Hey, it's yesterdays news, well this is jolly good
4:

1: Since my computer jumped the shark, I must request that all correspondence in this trying time be done by snail mail.
We apologize.
3: We can also take messages by carrier pidgeon, jungle drums, smoke signals or telepathy. Thank you.

1: Isn't it possible to surfe the net on these mobiles now?
(google.com)
2: "connecting"... What speed

1: Today! Strips we can do on a borrowed PC from early bronze age (footnote: ca. 3500—2000 years B.C.!)
2: Spot the birth mark
3: Zzzz - hu?!
4: ...I dreamt I could fly. Sigh
5: Next time: Strips you can make on a spiffy new MacBook Pro! A ridiculously NOK 22200 funnier!

1: Spot the birth mark
Miming the classic "Help I'm trapped in a glass box"
2:
3:
4: Meanwhile, somewhere else:

1: "(English)" Oh yeah, so where is the Start button?
2:
3: No, no, I guess it's Alt, Ctrl-
4:


1: Why have you only one mouse button?! Why is the GUI so elegant and self-explanatory?! What kind of sick bastard can make use of two Enter keys?!
2: This is not a computer!... It, it's an accessoire for ironic design students with shag hairdo and pilot shades.
3: What have I done? I'm not a Mac, I'm an-
What's this?
4: ..."Yoda widget"?
Presumably, Mads lived happy ever after with his new Mac. Or perhaps he didn't, he hasn't done much cartooning in the last year or so.
All strips are © Mads Eriksen, I guess. I have not gotten his permission to post them here, so if he complains, I presume I'll just have to take them away.