Category:Thursday comics - Revision history

FaviFake at 17:03, 17 June 2025

2025-06-17T17:03:59Z

FaviFake at 16:53, 9 May 2025

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Kynde at 09:08, 14 September 2022

2022-09-14T09:08:33Z

Kynde at 15:57, 3 April 2021

2021-04-03T15:57:02Z

Kynde: /* Explanation */

2021-04-03T15:52:40Z

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Kynde: /* Explanation */

2021-04-03T15:52:08Z

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Lupo: /* Explanation */ thursday, not tuesday

2019-11-14T08:47:33Z

‎Explanation: thursday, not tuesday

Account: Grammar stuff. A little confused on the most recent one though... UTC?

2019-11-14T02:47:18Z

Grammar stuff. A little confused on the most recent one though... UTC?

162.158.74.75: /* Explanation */

2016-09-29T02:19:21Z

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Kynde at 13:58, 15 September 2016

2016-09-15T13:58:05Z

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-*These are the comics that were posted on xkcd on Thursday.
+{{:Category:Comics by weekday}}
-==Explanation==
+Notably, [[1733: Solar Spectrum]] was released a day later than usual, due to the [[1732#Popularity_of_comic|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.
 [[Category:Comics by weekday| 4]]

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 ***As this was likely better than what Randall could have hoped for, he left it on the front page one day longer to keep links posted to xkcd's main page, simply because of this comic, active for one day longer.
 ***He even posted a note about this above the comics in the header. See this [[1732#Popularity_of_comic|trivia item]] about this.
-**One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates is [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' day]].
+**One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates are [[April Fools' Day comics]].
 ***This first happened for a Thursday on April 1st 2021 with [[2445: Checkbox]].
 **And then there is this one case [[2300: Everyone's an Epidemiologist]], where there seems to be no reason why it was posted on a Thursday, but it is noted like that in the archive, for a week with three normal comics with a Monday, Thursday, Friday release schedule, see that comics [[2300: Everyone's an Epidemiologist#Trivia|trivia section]].

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 **One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates is [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' day]].
 ***This first happened for a Thursday on April 1st 2021 with [[2445: Checkbox]].
 *Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.
 **The date given should be when posted on xkcd, not here.

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 **One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates is [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' day]].
 ***This first happened for a Thursday on April 1st 2021 with [[2445: Checkbox]].
 *Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.
 **The date given should be when posted on xkcd, not here.

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 ***He even posted a note about this above the comics in the header. See this [[1732#Popularity_of_comic|trivia item]] about this.
 **One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates is [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' day]].
-***This first happened yet for a Thursday on April 1st 2021 with [[2445: Checkbox]].
+***This first happened for a Thursday on April 1st 2021 with [[2445: Checkbox]].
 ***It made it the last day of the week to have an April Fools' day comic.
 *Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.

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 ***Thursday's comic will then be part 4, as can be seen several times.
 ***Not all comics in series have part names, as can be seen for Parody Week and Guest Week.
-**The aforementioned exceptions explain all Tuesday comics before no. 961.
+**The aforementioned exceptions explain all Thursday comics before no. 961.
 **Another case is if a comic becomes a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]] to a person who has just died. Then a comic has been seen to come out the day after, disregarding the normal release days.
 ***This was the case with [[961: Eternal Flame]], a tribute to {{w| Steve Jobs}}.

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 *Note that xkcd usually only posts a new comic Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
-**However, for several reasons comics have been posted on all week days
+**However, for various reasons, comics have been posted on all days of the week.
 **In the early days of the comic it happened frequently, but it has become very rare since [[LiveJournal]] closed.
-***Actually the two first on the list came during the period where comics were released both on LiveJorunal and on the then new xkcd site.
+***The first two on the list came during the period where comics were released both on LiveJournal and on the then new xkcd site.
-**The other two weekdays are typically used in [[:Category:Comic_series|comic series]] which sometime extend for five days in one week.
+**Tuesday and Thursday are also typically used in [[:Category:Comic_series|comic series]] which sometimes extend for five days in one week.
-***Thursdays comic will then be part 4, as can be seen several times.
+***Thursday's comic will then be part 4, as can be seen several times.
-***It is not all of the series that are mentioned with a part number, as can be seen for Parody and Guest Week.
+***Not all comics in series have part names, as can be seen for Parody Week and Guest Week.
-**The above mentioned exceptions explains all Tuesday comics before no. 961.
+**The aforementioned exceptions explain all Tuesday comics before no. 961.
 **Another case is if a comic becomes a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]] to a person who has just died. Then a comic has been seen to come out the day after, disregarding the normal release days.
 ***This was the case with [[961: Eternal Flame]], a tribute to {{w| Steve Jobs}}.
-**Another tribute like reason for a release day was the reason that [[1642: Gravitational Waves]] was released a day early, on a Thursday instead of the scheduled Friday release.
+**Another tribute-like reason for a release day was the reason that [[1642: Gravitational Waves]] was released a day early, on a Thursday instead of the scheduled Friday release.
 ***This was done in celebration of the announcement on 2016-02-11 that Gravitational Waves had been detected.
-***Randall obviously new/expected this announcement and was ready with a comic on that day even though it was a Thursday.
+***Randall obviously expected this announcement and was ready with a comic on that day even though it was a Thursday.
 **A special case was made for [[1733: Solar Spectrum]] which was released a day late, on a Thursday instead of the scheduled Wednesday release.
 ***This was caused by the [[1732#Popularity_of_comic|extreme popularity]] of that weeks Monday comic [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]], especially among people not usually visiting xkcd.
-***As this was likely better than what Randall could have hoped for, he left it on the front page one day longer to keep posted links to xkcd's main page, because of this comic, active for one day longer.
+***As this was likely better than what Randall could have hoped for, he left it on the front page one day longer to keep links posted to xkcd's main page because of this comic active for one day longer.
 ***He even posted a note about this above the comics in the header. See this [[1732#Popularity_of_comic|trivia item]] about this.
-**One other notable exception that can lead to off-set release dates is [[:Category:April_fools'_comics|April Fools day]].
+**One other notable exception that can lead to offset release dates is [[:Category:April_fools'_comics|April Fools day]].
-***This has not happened yet for a Thursday (as of 2016), and the next Thursday April 1st is not until 2021...
+***This has not happened yet for a Thursday (as of 2019), and the next April 1st is not until 2021...
 *Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.
 **The date given should be when posted on xkcd, not here.
-**Please check up on this and explain here and at the comic why it has been released on a Tuesday.
+**Please check up on this and explain here and at the comic why it has been released on a Thursday.
 **The dates can be found in the [http://www.xkcd.com/archive/ xkcd archive]
 ***Hover mouse over title to view publication date.