Outstanding. I appreciate your use of visual storytelling and facts-for-comic-affect on this one.

People in Hiroshima have longer life expectancies than people in Washington? I didn’t expect that…

Very illustrative!

I recommend everyone to read [etc etc, half the comments start like this]

Fantastic job. Would you be interested in putting a Creative Commons license on this artwork so that it can be used for political education? I’d love to pass it around to a lot of people without overloading your server with linkage.

My favorite part is about how the scientists were all “This MIGHT ignite our frickin atmosphere!”, and then said “F#$% it! You can’t make an omelette without burning a few atmos!”

This is EXACTLY how to get on Digg. Genius!

I was surprised by the life expectancy statistics, too. Very interesting.

It is my belief that mutually assured destruction is the only thing maintaining relative world peace right now. If every country in the world that owns nuclear weapons of any king got rid of them at the same moment, five years later the world would be drowning in blood.

And with nukes, only the third world is drowning in blood. Huge improvement, amirite?

Thank you for the tremendous comic. I’m a community organizer and for the last 5 years, since I was 19 I’ve been focused on nuclear disarmament, mostly with the organizations Think Outside the Bomb and Western States Legal Foundation, and I’ve also been reading your comic every Monday(ish) for over a year, now.

It’s sad that even most anti-nuke organizations don’t afford the issue the same level of thought towards the mindset and the consequences of the nuclear industry that you encompassed just in this one comic — and if the anti-nuke crowd can’t be bothered to look any further than “nukes are scary and they can kill us all”, well, we can forget about politicians.

With your permission, I’d love to use this as an educational tool in my group’s upcoming campaign in New Mexico and at the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York this May.

The life expectancy punchline made this comic go into my “Best of” section.