Category:Comics sharing name

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There are several comics that almost or do share their name with at least one other comic.
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Sometimes this is because they are related in a direct series, where it is just a number (part number) that changes, though this is not the case with all series.
- But a few comics actually share the exact same name, without being directly in a series (sorted after oldest pair, i.e. the 2nd comic's age):
  - 786: Exoplanets and 1071: Exoplanets.
    - Both images were originally named exoplanets.png. When the latter was published, this broke the former, which was then renamed exoplanets_2010.png.
  - 60: Super Bowl and 1480: Super Bowl.
    - No images broke because the former is a JPG file and the latter is a PNG file.
  - 827: Business Idea and 1721: Business Idea.
    - When the latter was released, the image file and the comic title were the same and there was a conflict on xkcd (and on this site).
    - The former comic was then renamed 827: My Business Idea by Randall. He had to rename both the image file and the comic title to fix the conflict.
- And at least six other pairs of comics only differ in that one of the titles is plural:
  - 1027: Pickup Artist and 1178: Pickup Artists.
  - 518: Flow Charts and 1195: Flowchart.
  - 235: Kite and 1614: Kites.
  - 441: Babies and 1650: Baby.
  - 1373: Screenshot and 1863: Screenshots.
  - 716: Time Machine and 1203: Time Machines.
All comics that thus share name with only up to one different character are listed here.
- Exceptions are made for instance if:
  - The plural form changes more than just adding an "s", like for "baby" vs. "babies",
  - A word is split in two words in one comic's name and not the other like "flow charts" vs "flowchart", where also the plural is changed.
Finally, there is a series of new year comics with the year changing to match the new year's number.

Pages in category "Comics sharing name"

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