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The latest comic is number 1090. All the comic explanations (so far) are here.

See List of all comics for a complete table of all XKCD comics so far and the corresponding explanations. The red links (like this) are missing explanations. Feel free to help out by creating them!

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Rules

Don't be a jerk. There are a lot of comics that don't have set in stone explanations, feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.

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