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Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: literature

  • 537 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Merchant of Venice
  • 734 - Twelfth Night
  • 1083 - 1930s European history; Stalin; communism; Animal Farm
  • 1192 - Lorem ipsum
  • 1424 - Yeti; H.P. Lovecraft; Pluto; definition of a planet; Kuiper belt
  • 1481 - Petards; being hoist thereon; Hamlet
  • 1490 - The Last Supper; conspiracy theories; The Da Vinci Code
  • 1497 - Balrogs; the physical appearance thereof
  • 1503 - Technobabble
  • 1659 - Moby-Dick; self-destructive vengeance; Khan Noonien Singh; Cetus
  • 1787 - Macbeth
  • 1817 - Narrative causality
  • 2042 - Time travel in literature; fixed time; stable time loops
  • 2081 - Time travel in literature; parallel universes
  • 2088 - Time travellers in literature; H. G. Wells
  • 2104 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • 2153 - Cheshire cats and the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's version
  • 2191 - Chekhov's gun
  • 2218 - As You Like It
  • 2315 - Ben Jonson
  • 2526 - Fonts and typefaces
  • 2567 - Time travel in literature; time and space travel
  • 2665 - Time machines in literature
  • 2676 - Snarks and boojums
  • 3031 - Baba Yaga
  • 3050 - Kennings
  • 3101 - Scottish dwarves
  • 3138 - Words coined by Shakespeare
  • 3323 - Footnotes
  • 3326 - Corners and angles
  • 3375 - Terry Pratchett
  • 3411 - Fantasy maps in books
  • 3455 - Short stories; Callahan's Crosstime Saloon; NaNoWriMo
  • 3694 - Free verse versus blank verse
  • 3740 - Creative writing; writing game adventures; writing comics
  • 3746 - Robin Hood as a literary archetype
  • 4000 - Large round number years in fiction; Dungeons & Dragons Ravnica
  • 4017 - Willow trees; the Whomping Willow
  • 4051 - "Invoke"; alliteration versus assonance
  • 4094 - Etymology and pronunciation of "lich"; usage in fantasy literature
  • 4118 - The myth of Endymion; John Keats's Endymion
  • 4121 - Shakespeare's birthplace
  • 4170 - Trolls in Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons
  • 4255 - The Cat in the Hat and the size of Little Cat Z
  • 4294 - Buried pirate treasure; Treasure Island and influences
  • 4414 - The setting of Romeo and Juliet
  • 4472 - Fee-fi-fo-fum; Jack the folk hero
  • 4624 - Literary canon
  • 4651 - Misattribution of quotes
  • 4665 - Number of Balrogs in Tolkien's works
  • 4736 - Edward Wollstonecraft

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