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Girl Genius is an excellent steampunk mad science comic.

It's absolutely brilliant in it's own right, but I love some of the small touches. Check out the the birds in this last panel, and these fantastic sneaky shout outs to a few other webcomics.

In today's comic the music is provided by the P.D.Q Bach engine.

I heard a radio show about him a while ago. He's the creation of a musical satirist in the States. The name coming from the fact that Johann Sebastian Bach had many children who are generally referred to by their three initials. He performs with a full orchestra, or just a kazoo. I don't know enough about classical music to get all the jokes, but if you know your Baroque from your Romantic, he's probably worth tracking down. And absolutely perfect for a the Mad Science Pantomime Ball.

Go watch Dr Horrible's musical blog.

It's simply brilliant. Joss Whedon made a tongue-in-cheek mad scientist musical during the writers strike, and is releasing it free for one week only.

The last part is only going to be available for one day, so don't miss it!

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More Mad Science!

Nukees, the Nuclear Engineering Students webcomic has left Keenspot.

This was possible the first webcomic I ever read, and since it's just lost the cross promtion from Keenspot so it deserves a brief plug. Essentially the early years, are largely a bunch of fairly geeky jokes, about the slightly eccentric titular Nukees. In the middle years there's slightly more adventure, with rouge AIs, robot ants, and occasional visions of Greek Gods. Then in the last few years it's become much more character driven, with the back story of King Luca being fleshed out, and I think we're due for fairly big moment with the stalkerish Cecilia.
Possibly not one to read from today, but start at the beginning, read a few strips a day, and pause with bookmark, and you'll be caught up in no time.

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While I'm on webcomics Irregular Webcomic has reached its 2000th strip! Very few other webcomics can claim this.

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And finally

Neither Wikipedia, nor IMDB have photos of Ant or Dec, as no-one knows which is which :)