I thought it would be different, but it was the same.

There are about four things which can inspire a comic strip for me. Puns, Activities, Objects and...well I forget the fourth thing. The point is Digital Analogy is an object-inspired strip. The idea began to form as I was packing all of my belongings into boxes (stay tuned for box-related comic strip) and I was looking at all the media I own and the various extinct formats. I have records and cassettes and CD's and 5'in floppy discs and nintendo cartridges and I thought about how all of this stuff now exists on shiny CD/DVD discs. So the original idea was really the first six panels, but that lacked Oomph and made less sense especially because the Disc, though still very much in use, is becoming an obsolete technology. Then I realized that THIS was the point of the strip in the first place, so that took me to panel 7.

Now, I had vowed to myself to avoid commercial topicality in my strips and I have been very good at this. You will find scant references to Sudoku, iPods, and ABC's Heroes in my strips, but Apple has been so frigging good at elevating their pod to iconic status that I thought that I should bend my own stricture. And in another sense, the iPod is more than a consumer trend, there is an ongoing revolution in media taking place. So I let the iPod in and this is why the iPod is so big. Not only does it complete the series, but it in itself is supposed to be a little bit of a joke, as in "Look at my freaking HUGE iPOD."