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Here’s the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book: Hey Microsoft, Kaa-POW!!!

by Kara Swisher
Posted on September 1, 2008 at 12:05 PM PT

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Here is Google’s entire comic book–BoomTown’s not going to say the search giant is juvenile, but a comic book?–that it is using to explain the technical details of its new browser called Chrome.

Sources told me definitively that Google (GOOG) will launch the browser–which is its most blatant attack on Microsoft (MSFT) yet–as early as tomorrow for download by consumers.

Until then, I got a copy of it and here is the entire comic book drawn by Scott McCloud (click on the images to make them larger, but wait until the page fully loads).

It explains the techie underpinnings of Chrome, especially its JavaScript engine, called V8, that the company says makes future complex Web applications render faster.

Or, for you kids out there, kind of like Superman but faster than a locomotive and a bullet train, too.

(By the way, the comic notes that Google has a Web site for Chrome here.)

Google Chrome Comic Book

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

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  • The same Scott McCloud is responsible for Microsoft's Blue Monster cartoons.
  • Gordon Mohr
    Thanks for scanning!

    FYI, your chrome12.jpg and chrome13.jpg images are the same -- both of in-image page number "11". Then chrome14.jpg shows in-image page number "13". (True "12" is missing.)
  • Jaap Steinvoorte
    @Lloyd Budd: Check the facts dude. You don't even ask a question. Ever noticed a blog called GapingVoid? You don't even have to do research, a google search on "Microsoft Blue Monster" is enough to check the facts. Scott McCloud is NOT the guy who is responsible for MS blue Monster.
  • Gordon - Thanks for pointing out the duplicated page. We've fixed the issue.
  • Great marketing. It's different, fun, and informative. Plus, you pick up a lot of word of mouth with this sort of promotion. It's not just another unveiling.
  • dhany andara
    Nice comics! Is it okay, if I put the comics in my blog -- so that my readers will be able to get it as well? Thanks
  • Farhan Baloch
    Its very interesting that Google has decided to take on a project like this. They obviously have such an interest in how people access the web, it was only a matter of time before they took things into their own hands. It is going to be very interesting to see how this pans out.

    Google Chrome browser Screenshots
    http://www.tonesall.com/computers-internet/goog...
  • Jaap, thanks for the correction. I guess I had stored Hugh Macleod and Scott McCloud in the same spot in my memory, faulty human wiring. Good thing the Web is so forgiving of mistakes.

    My comment was sparked by the "juvenile" tease in the article.
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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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