Friday’s comic apparently didn’t go up properly.  Will be fixed soon.  Meanwhile, enjoy this one about the term “junkomfortable”.  AKA when underwear attacks.  If you like this one, check out all the comics tagged “rules”, which are all along the same lines.

Reminder!  There’s still a week to enter the 1-year anniversary / Jimmy the Murderdog contest!  Have received some great entries so far, but need plenty more.  Remember, you can win some great The System merch.  Details to be found here.

Don’t make him turn this metro train around.

Relatiolators and Escalationships are real problems in DC.  Too bad mine hasn’t worked out like this.  Btw, credit goes to my friend Rachel on this, who came up with these ideas long ago and was kind enough to let me put it into a comic.  If you’re in DC, check her out Friday night in the DCist Exposed show.

You live in NYC?  You like typography?  Do you like Helvetica, or do you think Aksidenz Grotesk is better (wait, do you think Aksidenz Grotesk happens when you need to change a baby’s diaper)?  Ok, I can’t do the fun intro thing today.

Here’s a great article via Systemic Kendra, all about the NYC Subway system getting on board with Helvetica as it’s typeface.

The resulting subway map, as one writer put it in 1968, was “a battlefield filled with typographers and color-experts locked in mortal combat.”

Oh no he didnt.  Link.