Ask a reader of the British version of PC GAMER what their favourite part of the magazine is and chances are they’ll reply “The incisive, witty, reviews.”. Ask them again in a slow, deliberate, Christopher Walken kind of voice, and they usually respond with a squeaky “The features? The g-g-g-games culture section?”. Ask them a third time while frothing at the mouth and repeatedly stabbing a large hunting knife into a copy of the mag open at page 21, and they almost always answer “The cartoon! Strafe Left! Yes. That is my favourite part of the magazine.”.
Some fascinating Strafe Left facts…
*SL has been running for over four years.
*SL is always delivered long before deadline.
*The creator’s tool of choice is a rod of kiln-fired graphite sheathed in a sleeve of sun-ripened cedar.
*In June of 2004 an SL depicting Jesus and Mohammed as vortigaunts caused riots in parts of Xen.
*One old and cruelly-resized SL will be appearing on RPS every weekend from now on.
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Yay for that announcement. I always enjoyed SL. The design of the characters themselves are quite fun.
IDGI.
This is good. Yes.
Who wrote the first ever strafe left?
This is good news :)
Fantastic!
As long as we get the Thief 3 arrows one, I’m happy.
I have been waiting with baited breath for the Strafe Left Animated Series.
Any news?
Strafe left is (and has been) one of my favourite parts of PCGamer since it’s creation. So yay.
I read that as sun-ripened cider.
Still works tbh.
The best part of any magazine.
I think Strafe Left is excellent. Do it once a month and make it funny. It’s a great recipe.
The mini-map Strafe Left was one of the most suprising things ive ever seen in PC Gamer. You are Awesome Mr Stone.
I love Strafe Left! Thanks Tim!
Yay. More online comics to look forward to :D
I love strafe left, just a bit more than I loved this post! made me laugh :)
Tim Stone is enormously awesome and talented, and you should all be grateful to have him.
Sort of thing.
Are the comics posted online, or do I have to subscribe to British PC gamer to see them?
@Eschatos: “One old and cruelly-resized SL will be appearing on RPS every weekend from now on”, so yes they’re online but they’re old ones (but if it’s up every weekend they should catch up eventually)
Another ‘Yay!’ from me, I don’t have to scan the magazines now like I started to and then stopped because it was too much hassle.