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Munroe seems to take a lot of joy in using neat coding tricks to mess with readers' expectations based around the traditional three-to-four-panel strip format that most of his comics stick to. Today he blew readers' expectations out of the wall, as well as blowing our minds, with an epic installment titled "Click and Drag" that crams a massive, intricately rendered landscape of mountains, oceans, and man-made structures packed with dozens upon dozens of tiny, funny punch lines scattered throughout, all explorable by clicking and dragging it through a tiny Web browser window. And by massive I mean massive—it's been estimated that at 300 dpi, or about four times denser than normal Web resolution, it would print out at a whopping 46 feet long. If you want to stay true to Munroe's vision you should stick to the click-and-drag setup of the original strip. For those of us who don't have the time to spend presumably hours viewing such a monolithic piece through such a tiny window there's a zoomable version that allows viewers to explore it on a much more user-friendly scale. Whichever way you go it's worth the trip.
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