Bromley talks about the design of the Analytical Engine, as interpreted from his study of the drawings at the London Museum of Science.. Another basement.. He was instrumental in the team that built the reproductions on the Difference Engine in the ’90-s and ’00-s..

I’ve just discovered 2D Goggles today. I’m enjoying every bit of it. Most of the brilliant highlights in this comic have already been commented by others, so I’ll just comment on the parts that nobody mentioned yet.

So much for the Queen being a stupid, as one reader suggested in the comments to part 2. She found f.a.s.c.i.n.a.t.i.n.g that they developed a language specifically for the machine, she WAS waiting for a particular result and got angry when it wasn’t delivered, she reminded (with a smile!) that anything equals power but power… oh, but as any client, she was finally satisfied when the machine showed some pretty interface. Eye-candy rulez!

I miss more people commenting on the technical merits of the drawing, as it happened on the earlier strips. I suppose that’s because of the frantic pace. These stories are getting better and funnier each time.

I wanted to express my opinion on those panels drawn with a less detailed more blurry line. At first I found some of them too crude, but overall they help the storytelling. Then it stroke me why that style seemed familiar to me – the naive look of the more simplified panels (the faces in particular) resembles that of the comic genius Jean-Jacques Sempé! I first noticed it in the third panel of Part 2, when the Queen speaks for the first time. Is that somehow intentional, in that Sempé might be one of your artistic influences? Or is the resemblance purely coincidental?

It strikes me that adventures might be forthcoming if the engine is used for the purpose of cracking codes. There may be some Bletchley Park references to be had as well! (Though I hesitate to open still more avenues of investigation.)