Good luck and quick thinking by Chris Wright: a plotline in his Help Desk comic happened to mesh with a breaking news story; what's a web cartoonist to do?

Take advantage of the situation, of course.

Ain't it grand? The serendipity of the real world and the comic strip plot is cool, but what's cooler still is that the medium allowed Chris to seize the moment in a way that wouldn't be possible in print, because of lead time. Even newspaper editorial cartoons have a day or two of lag, but Help Desk was johnny-on-the-spot within less that 24 hours of the lights going out.

And so are Cox and Forkum.

Rapid-response satire: the web's killer app.