“Whenever I have a couple of questions in a row about things exploding, I then like to look for something different,” Munroe says. A remarkable number of the answers to those questions involve mass carnage.
guns?” to “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?”, now collected in the book What If? (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 2nd). Since 2012, Munroe has also been answering weekly reader questions about science, ranging from “What would it take to stop an out-of-control freight train using only b.b. The comic also encompasses maps of Internet communities, charts about radiation doses, money, and the metric system, and jaw-dropping formal experiments like “Click and Drag” (where the reader scrolls through a 46-foot-wide comic to explore its world) and the Hugo Award-winning “Time” (a movie released one frame per hour over a period of four months). With tens of millions of visitors every month, the 29-year-old Munroe has become the king of the oddball online funny pages. Sometimes the jokes are built on obscure references to logic trees or Linux there’s now a whole ecosystem of other people explaining what he’s talking about in case your liberal-arts degree isn’t getting the job done. That’s exactly what cartoonist Randall Munroe has done: applied his physics degree (he’s a former employee of NASA) to brilliant stick-figure comics about the Internet, eBay feedback, romance, and bacon. “Stand back, I’m going to try science” is one of the enduring mottos of the XKCD webcomic.
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