Category:Tuesday comics - Revision history

FaviFake at 10:35, 18 June 2025

2025-06-18T10:35:51Z

2025-06-17T18:55:27Z

2025-06-17T18:02:17Z

2025-06-17T16:49:48Z

2025-05-09T16:53:48Z

2024-09-18T07:17:28Z

New Tuesday comic mentioned

2022-12-27T23:18:34Z

‎Explanation

2022-12-27T23:16:53Z

Added explanation for 2198 and exception for 2717

2022-09-14T09:00:01Z

‎Explanation

2016-09-15T13:56:18Z

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{:Category:Comics by weekday}}
-The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the [[:Category:Comics by weekday|standard release schedule]], was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of ''[[Thing Explainer]]''), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of ''[[How To]]''), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of ''[[What If? 2]]'').
+The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the [[:Category:Comics by weekday|standard release schedule]], was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book releases, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of ''[[Thing Explainer]]''), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of ''[[How To]]''), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of ''[[What If? 2]]'').
 [[Category:Comics by weekday| 2]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{:Category:Comics by weekday}}
-The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the standard release schedule, was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of ''[[Thing Explainer]]''), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of ''[[How To]]''), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of ''[[What If? 2]]'').
+The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the [[:Category:Comics by weekday|standard release schedule]], was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of ''[[Thing Explainer]]''), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of ''[[How To]]''), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of ''[[What If? 2]]'').
 [[Category:Comics by weekday| 2]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{:Category:Comics by weekday}}
-The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the standard release schedule, was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of [[Thing Explainer]]), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of [[How To]]), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of [[What If? 2]]).
+The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the standard release schedule, was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of ''[[Thing Explainer]]''), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of ''[[How To]]''), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of ''[[What If? 2]]'').
 [[Category:Comics by weekday| 2]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-*These are the comics that were posted on xkcd on Tuesday.
+{{:Category:Comics by weekday}}
-**'''Click''' to expand for a more detailed explanation:
-<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%">
+The first April Fools' Day comic to be released on a Tuesday, purposefully deviating from the standard release schedule, was [[404: Not Found]]. Other Tuesday comics deviate from the standard to align with one of Randall's book release, such as [[1608: Hoverboard]] (celebrating the release of [[Thing Explainer]]), [[2198: Throw]] (celebrating the release of [[How To]]), and [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] (celebrating the release of [[What If? 2]]).
 [[Category:Comics by weekday| 2]]

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 **In the early days of the comic it happened frequently, but it has become very rare since [[LiveJournal]] closed.
 ***Actually the last of these came the week after this, when [[57: Wait For Me]] was pushed in, to make space for the three comics in the series [[:Category:Opening dialogue by Scott|Opening dialogue by Scott]], since the Monday comic had already been released.
-**One notable exception that can lead to off-set release dates is [[:Category:April_fools'_comics|April Fools day]].
+**One notable exception that can lead to off-set release dates are [[April Fools' Day comics]].
 ***This happened first time on a Tuesday with [[1350: Lorenz]], apart from the [[404: Not Found]] meta comic.
 **Other events (like a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]], which has not yet happened on a Tuesday) can also result in Tuesday comics.

@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 ***Tuesdays comic will then be part 2, 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.
-**The above mentioned exceptions explains all Tuesday comics from 57 and on, except for [[2717: L6 Lagrange Point]].
+**The above mentioned exceptions explains all Tuesday comics from 57 and on, except for [[2717: L6 Lagrange Point]] and [[2986: Every Scientific Field]].
-*Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.
+***These could simply be Randall that was too late with the release to call it a Monday comic. But in some cases the date in the archive would be set to the intended release day, even if it was released past midnight (maybe even in all time zones.) But that is not the case with the two unexplained Tuesday release mentioned here.
 **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.

@@ Line 13: / Line 13: @@
 ***This happened first with [[1551: Pluto]] released in honor of the New Horizons deep space probe making its flyby at Pluto.
 ***Since then it has also occurred with [[1608: Hoverboard]] made to celebrate the release of Randall's new book, Thing Explainer.
 ***And again with another book release for ''What if? 2''. The comic [[2672: What If? 2 Flowchart]] was released on the Tuesday the book was released.
 **The other weekdays are typically used in [[:Category:Comic_series|comic series]] which sometime extend for five days in one week.
 ***Tuesdays comic will then be part 2, 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.
-**The above mentioned exceptions explains all Tuesday comics from 57 and on.
+**The above mentioned exceptions explains all Tuesday comics from 57 and on, except for [[2717: L6_Lagrange_Point]].
 *Finally there could be incidences where a comic possibly has been miscategorized.
 **The date given should be when posted on xkcd, not here.