Nice reviews. I've read and enjoyed Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe series. I think the comics medium has the ability to makes technical subjects approachable and light and would love to see more such 'comics introduction to ...' books ! Does anyone know of such comics for computer related subjects ?
I find Head first series from O'Reily quite enjoyable.
Gonick & Smith remarkably make statistics fun and even easy to explain to other people. So glad I stumbled into it at a garage sale a few years ago. I should pick up their other books ASAP.