Google’s newest offer­ing, the Chrome browser, is due to be released today. The ini­tial ‘press release’ was in the form of this rather nifty comic book cre­ated by Scott McCloud.

The Offi­cial Google Blog gives us the low-down:

All of us at Google spend much of our time work­ing inside a browser. We search, chat, email and col­lab­o­rate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seri­ously think­ing about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best ele­ments out there. We real­ized that the web had evolved from mainly sim­ple text pages to rich, inter­ac­tive appli­ca­tions and that we needed to com­pletely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a mod­ern plat­form for web pages and appli­ca­tions, and that’s what we set out to build.

Blo­go­scoped has a good overview of the browser and points us to the page where the browser will even­tu­ally be avail­able to down­load.

via Link Banana