By Tim Stone on October 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pm.
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.
27/10/2007 at 21:51 drunkymonkey says:
Yay for that announcement. I always enjoyed SL. The design of the characters themselves are quite fun.
27/10/2007 at 22:30 Robin says:
IDGI.
27/10/2007 at 22:33 Theory says:
This is good. Yes.
27/10/2007 at 22:35 bluespacetiger says:
Who wrote the first ever strafe left?
27/10/2007 at 22:37 Evo says:
This is good news :)
27/10/2007 at 22:57 Arathain says:
Fantastic!
27/10/2007 at 23:08 Andrew says:
As long as we get the Thief 3 arrows one, I’m happy.
27/10/2007 at 23:15 Watcher95 says:
I have been waiting with baited breath for the Strafe Left Animated Series.
Any news?
27/10/2007 at 23:27 Nick says:
Strafe left is (and has been) one of my favourite parts of PCGamer since it’s creation. So yay.
28/10/2007 at 00:59 MPK says:
I read that as sun-ripened cider.
Still works tbh.
28/10/2007 at 02:13 Jim Rossignol says:
The best part of any magazine.
28/10/2007 at 09:23 Alistair says:
I think Strafe Left is excellent. Do it once a month and make it funny. It’s a great recipe.
28/10/2007 at 11:07 Inflatable Moron says:
The mini-map Strafe Left was one of the most suprising things ive ever seen in PC Gamer. You are Awesome Mr Stone.
28/10/2007 at 12:31 dartt says:
I love Strafe Left! Thanks Tim!
28/10/2007 at 13:23 Seniath says:
Yay. More online comics to look forward to :D
28/10/2007 at 16:02 fearian says:
I love strafe left, just a bit more than I loved this post! made me laugh :)
28/10/2007 at 17:53 Frosty840 says:
Tim Stone is enormously awesome and talented, and you should all be grateful to have him.
Sort of thing.
28/10/2007 at 21:22 Eschatos says:
Are the comics posted online, or do I have to subscribe to British PC gamer to see them?
28/10/2007 at 23:10 Daedalus says:
@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.