? (web comic)
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? - the slightly demented anti-comic strip is a former web comic by Aric McKeown, done both in Flash and as GIFs. The comic was single-panel with a very simple style.
?'s only significant character was a young professor called Ashfield. Quite what he is a professor of hasn't been explained, but chemistry and physics seem likely. He appears in every single strip, always in the same position or some variation thereof, with the punchline in text at the bottom.
Professor Ashfield is famous for his eccentric ideas, twisted sense of humour and questionable ethics. He would often appear in extremely strange situations, sometimes even involving metaphysics, either because of his own fault, or as a victim of circumstances. He always carried a small, oblong, white object in his hand. McKeown originally explained this as being a piece of chalk (for writing on a blackboard), but later inexplicably changed the explanation to it being a cigarette.
Flash was used from one point onwards to produce simple animation effects, or to display multiple punchline options. Sometimes, ? it uses strange visual effects in the background as part of the setting.
The author has since moved on to Danny Washington and Educational Egg.
Links
? - the slightly demented anti-comic strip (http://www.ashfieldonline.com)
