Ludus Novus

The page of choice at Rose was, of course, Goatse.

Somehow I got the idea of destroying laptops in my head during my second quarter at Rose. How weird. I wonder how that happened…

The real evil here is making the CS Guy drive an hour to the Indianapolis airport when Cthulhu could have eaten people at the Terre Haute International Airport.

This strip appeared around when Half-Life 2 came out.

The dorm rooms at Rose had awesome old-school steam radiators that would hiss and spit at times. I grew up in the Phoenix area, so I had never encountered a radiator in real life, and I found it charming that they looked exactly like the ones in the movies. There was a fateful day when they turned them on, and they were always careful to notify everyone about it. I doubt they ever got hot enough to start fires, but I bet they could burn you or melt a thumb drive if you were especially unlucky.

Judging by the mention of a final project, this ran near the end of the fall quarter, in early November.

RIAA humor was slightly less out-of-date in 2003.

And so, in my sixth comic, I made an extended Dead Alewives reference. I am not proud of it. It did, however, allow me to have Cthulhu playing himself in an RPG, which is, of course, the only character he would ever play. I seem to remember some D&D or Call of Cthulhu sourcebook explaining that Cthulhu ate 1d6 cultists per round, but I can’t seem to find the reference on the internet.

All of these jokes, of course, were completely unfunny to 90% of the population, even at a geeky school like Rose.

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All of the continuity errors in this strip, and many in subsequent ones, were intentional. Except the missing tray in the second panel. That one’s my bad.
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I’ve always meant to put this online, and now I finally will. The Absolute Sum of All Evil is a weekly comic I did for my college newspaper, the Rose Thorn. It features Cthulhu, the Lovecraftian elder god, and his escapades at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a Computer Science major. I’ll be publishing these weekly in the order they were originally drawn.

A warning here: there are a lot of Rose in-jokes in these comics. I’ll try and explain them as they come up, but I have no guarantees that these strips will be funny to a general audience.
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