Category:Saturday 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.

The first four comics released on a Saturday are before Randall launched the official xkcd website, and they are the vast majority of the Saturday comics. In 2020, however, that year's April Fools' Day comic, 2288: Collector's Edition, was supposed to be released on Wednesday April 1st, but it was released two days late, causing the following comic, 2289: Scenario 4, to be released two days late as well.