Read more of this on ZDNET, it's easier than the comic book.
"First of all, Chrome is a new browser but not a new rendering engine. What’s the difference? A rendering engine just draws words and graphics to a rectangle on the screen. A web browser is all the stuff around that rectangle including menus, tabs, favorites, searching, and so forth. Rendering engines are hard, quirky, and tedious, so for Chrome Google picked the WebKit engine used by Safari, Adobe AIR, iPhone, and Android instead of writing their own. Web developers will be relieved to know that they don’t have to worry about yet another engine to target."
This is a direct attack on MS Windows.
With Chrome, you can create an “application shortcut” that will place an icon for a web application (like gmail) on your desktop, quick launch bar, or start menu. Chrome also has a function called “gears” that will let the web application work even if you aren’t connected to the internet, and synch when you reconnect. When you run the web application from your start menu item, it launches a chrome window without anything else. No location bar, or back or forward button, no tabs, no settings. It just looks like an application window.
Theoretically, you could build a web application for a company, that uses these features to look and feel like any other application on your desktop. You don’t even have to tell people to run an installation program.