January 29th, 2025: So I mentioned last time how Jan let me know that we had a new character in Dinosaur Comics - and they have gone WONDERFULLY FURTHER and produced a timeline of new characters in Dinosaur Comics! And HERE IT IS:

2003: the standard crew of upper- and lowercase ASCII letters and digits (except 7), some classic punctuation: .,!?:;-"%()'* as well as some less obvious: &\+/=>[]‘’_®— including two sizes of middle dots: ·• and two extra letters: ligature æ and accented é. Also some Chinese characters in #70!
2004: 7 makes a late appearance, as well as some math symbols: π²ˣ, more punctuation: <| including fancy double quotes “” and another diacritic: ï
2005: more diacritics: çêñù and the ™ symbol
2006: two "special characters": #$ (as the password people call them), and new diacritics, including the first uppercase ones: ÉÜâ
2007: @ and ¡
2009: °
2010: ^× for scientific notation, and more Greek letters (we've already seen π): ίαειμοσ
2011: ±
2012: èó
2013: more Greek! άβγθκλνρςυω
2014: Áá ♪♫
2015: ~Æ
2016: ü and ╣
2017: à
2018: Ö and some emoji in #3326
2019: «» and Ê
2020: û
2021: ♯ aka "musical hash"
2022: Ç, the first Cyrillic letter И, and the set-theoretic symbol ∩
2024: ö and some emoji in #4174
2025: È (so far!)

I find it fascinating that with two exceptions, there's been a regular cadence of new characters every year. Who knows what the future will bring?? (SPOILER: New characters, ideally)

One year ago today: TWO cosmology questions in ONE comic! they said it was illegal but *I* said i didn't care, and also didn't believe them

– Ryan