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yesterday i made the most wonderful find on the internet. i was looking around for anything relating to the original print version of superkaylo*, having already looked at every archived comic from the website, and GUESS WHAT! i found (i think) the entire thing. some beautiful soul on cookandbombd shared a link to a mediafire or smth upload of a .cbz file of it, and at first i didn’t get my hopes up because i’ve been burnt before with long-deleted media upload links but. by some wondrous twist of fate, despite the link no longer working, it HAD been archived late last year before it got deleted. and even then i didn’t want to get too excited because archived links don’t always work with this type of thing… but it worked!! i was able to download a .rar file and from there i could extract a .cbz file (a file type i’d never heard of prior to yesterday), which i could *then* convert to pdf AND IT WORKED! AND IT WAS FULLY READABLE! and contained several comics that had been uploaded to the superkaylo website, only in much higher quality because they’d been scanned somewhat recently and not on 1998 CB’s horrible scanner. and it was so so awesome. the comics themselves are nothing special really but its just so cool that i can read it in full. (well, i think it’s in full— 32 pages seems like a decent amount for a little comic book that got sold around casually)

*superkaylo = charlie brooker’s old website from 1998-2000, which was named after a comic book/collection of cartoons he drew and sold a bit during his student days (1992 specifically)

FINALLYYY i did admittedly leave the last 2 artists completely until the last minute (theres 2 hours till the submission time cuts off) but the point is i'm DONE!! woohooooo!!!!!!!

on the subject of schoolwork, i haven't posted much here in a while because the horrors (homework and tests to study for) have been taking over far too much of my time u_u but for now i've actually got not very much i need to do so yippee!

i also ordered "inside black mirror" from my local bookstore yesterday so i'm pretty excited about that :-D that reminds me. i fear i'm reaching new levels of autism with my charlie brooker obsession. i've been scouring the internet for like, old comics of his, old shows he was in, etc. and ive ended up finding some insanely obscure stuff. like i now have seen that man get into petty drama on comedy forums in 1999 and i found his old comics website . AND ive been trying to find footage of "the kit" (that bbc knowledge tech show he cohosted in 1999) and i swear to god there's so little footage out there arghhh... that said im incredibly glad to have gotten this obsession in today's day because there's so many wonderful people who've uploaded their old vhs tapes onto youtube and so many other things that make this old stuff easier to find if, like me, you were busy not existing when it originally aired. AND ALSOOO theres the fact that the entirety of pc zone is now available on archive. how awesome is that. (my gradual read-through of pc zone started out purely to read cb's old reviews and cartoons but its rapidly branching out into some genuine interest in pc gaming and computers in general)