Category:Thursday comics

Randall usually only posts new xkcd comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as the standard header text says. However, for several reasons, comics have been posted on all weekdays. In the early days of xkcd, it happened frequently, but it has become very rare since LiveJournal closed. Notable exceptions that can lead to off-set release dates, even in the weekend, are April Fools' Day comics, which Randall always tries to publish on April Fools' Day, book releases, which often fall on a Tuesday, and tributes to important people who recently passed away. The other weekdays are typically used in comic series, which sometime extend for five days in one week.

Notably, 1733: Solar Spectrum was released a day later than usual, due to the extreme popularity of that week's Monday comic, 1732: Earth Temperature Timeline, especially among people not usually visiting xkcd. Randall decided to leave it on the front page one more day to keep links pointing to xkcd's home page working.