This is a very cool way to announce an application. Google announced the introduction of Google Chrome as a comic (drawn by Scott McCloud, the guy behind Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics).
It's interesting not only for the technique, but also for the way it describes some of the issues with browser security and development. There are some pretty good visualizations of what garbage collection and sandboxing mean in there. It's worth a read even if you don't intend to use Google Chrome. We could probably take some cues from this for presenting complex educational content in clear ways using comics.
(As a side note, I really liked how the comic uses actual Google engineers and other employees as the characters describing the concepts. If we wanted to do comics like this for our own projects, that would be a fun and unusual way to position NMSU's faculty as experts in the field.)
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