Google Chrome: The Comic

Google announces its entry into the browser arena with a great comic book (by Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art,no less), called Google on Google Chrome:

There’s a good (if lacking in Safari 3 comparisons) overview at Blogoscoped, which notes:

I think it can’t hurt to have more competition in the browser area.

I can’t help but agree. It will be interesting to see how it competes against the Webkit/Safari family of browsers, especially with the upcoming release of SquirrelFish to set new Javascript speed records. Many of the other new Google Chrome features are already in Safari (cough porn mode cough), so I suspect this will turn out to be a good, solid entry into the browser market.

I just hope that the comic isn’t the best thing about the browser.