1000 Comics

by Jeff

Image text: Thank you for making me feel less alone.

This is obviously the 1000th xkcd comic.  In this comic, click on the image above to see the large version, Randall has put (almost?) every stick figure character he has used through the 5+ years into the number 1000.  Can't know for certain if this is all the characters, but it is an awful lot and I recognize a bunch.

The joke in this comic is Cueball saying at the bottom, "Only 24 more to go for a big round number".  First and obviously, 1000 is a big round number, but in binary notation, 1024 is represented as 10000000000, making it a simple round number occurring frequently in computers.