Not an especially attractive looking “book.” I haven’t seen the browser interface yet, and it already seems ugly and cold to me. The page break downs are pretty simple and reader friendly, though, so I would imagine Google is happy.

After reading through Scott’s comic, I felt I understood a lot more about “why” Google was launching its own browser, even though it has made substantial contributions to the Mozilla Foundation, which makes the Firefox browser.

I’d be interested in comments from other readers who read the book. Did it make you more knowledgeable? More likely to download the browser?

Projects like this can go a long ways in exposing comics to a larger audience. Similar projects have been very successful in Japan.

I wonder if Scott asked to be compensated via micropayments.

“That’s awesome! Have you always had the power to accurately judge something before you see it? I kid, but seriously, how can you be so judgmental on something you haven’t seen yet?”

This is a comics site. We’re all really good at that.

This isn’t a comic by Scott McCloud. This is a comic written by Google Chrome developers (or a tech writer associated with same) and drawn in comic form by Scott McCloud. The difference is huge. McCloud is one of the greatest explainers in the comics medium: he knows how to convey complex information via the seamless combination of words and visuals. Even folks who disagree with his views would have to agree he explains his ideas through comic pages that are totally clear and comprehensible. However, *this* comic reads like an especially dull Powerpoint presentation to an IT staff that McCloud has heroically tried to jazz up with visuals as best he can, but it falls woefully short.

Wouldn’t it be great to have scrolling mouse support?

Yeah, I’ll stick with those that do

I just downloaded Chrome and am not impressed at all. I had a bad feeling when it crashed trying to import stuff from Firefox the first time it opened. I did it again after it finished opening and was fine.

It apparently doesn’t have toolbar options.

I tried on a few different websites to use the scroll wheel on my mouse. It worked to scroll down, but not up. The scroll buttons on the side worked fine, though. So that’s weird.

I tried a couple different websites, including Google’s own blogger.com, and had problems having the pages come up correctly.

I’ll stick with Firefox.